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

Gain actionable insights into rolling stock strategy, railway electrification, tackling an ageing infrastructure, machine learning,  climate resilience and more.

Sponsored by:

Pandrol

    Engineering Theatre
    Amidst all the political to-ing and fro-ing, High Speed 2 and its contractors have been getting on with building the UK's first intercity mainline in decades if not a century. Some spectacular enginee …
    Engineering Theatre
    Privatisation has failed to deliver a coherent rolling stock strategy resulting in non standard stock, waste, incompatibility and boom and bust. How do we plan for a better future? How do we prepare f …
    Engineering Theatre
    Engineering Theatre
    As often gets raised by the public frustrated by noisy, unreliable or polluting trains - if the alternatives to electrification are so good, why is electrification almost universally the right answer …
    Engineering Theatre
    Carmont has not been the only recent event where the secondary effects of climate change on the operation of the railway became tragically evident. Potentially the most critical element of this respon …
    Engineering Theatre
    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 railw …
    Engineering Theatre
    Culture war baiting to one side, all of the evidence shows that more diverse teams are more effective and efficient at operating and rising to challenges - and appealing to greater diversity widens th …
Engineering

Gain actionable insights into rolling stock strategy, railway electrification, tackling an ageing infrastructure, machine learning,  climate resilience and more.

Sponsored by:

Pandrol

    Engineering Theatre
    Without using digital command and control systems – focussed around ETCS – it is not going to be possible to keep up with the rate of renewal of life-expiring signalling across the GB rail network. Di …
    Engineering Theatre
    Network Rail's Insight tool is a world leading tool in predictive maintenance. It uses AI to predict faults up to a year in advance, allowing teams to fix faults before they cause delays. This session …
    Engineering Theatre
    Engineering Theatre
    Climate change isn't a future problem. Today's railway is facing rapidly increasing pressures from what is often termed as global "weirding" as weather patterns change - and the railway is consequentl …