18-19 June 2025
Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre

A new era of railway testing

18 Jun 2025
Engineering Theatre
Engineering
With Network Rail's test tracks seeing a re-launch and a new strategy, GCRE building momentum and Porterbrook deploying their own testing facility literally around us, it is an exciting time for railway testing facilities in GB. But how will these facilities work alongside each other? What do they collectively offer the global railway market? And what are the opportunities for railway testing in a severely complex and challenging period? Representatives from both GCRE and Porterbrook join Gareth Dennis - this time with his hat as Strategy Lead for NR's test tracks on - to talk through these questions and more.
Chairperson
Gareth Dennis
Gareth Dennis, Strategy Lead, Test tracks | Engineering Services - Network Rail
Speakers
Simon Jones
Simon Jones, Chief Executive - Global Centre of Rail Excellence

Session Type

Panel