Rail LIVE is the UK’s largest rail exhibition, where the entire industry gathers to gain insights, network, and display their latest innovations. The event, which takes place at Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, focuses on live demonstrations, engaging exhibits, and practical learning.

Rail LIVE is an outdoor rail industry event combining an exhibition, live demonstrations, and conference-style content. It is designed to show rail products, services, and technologies in a real working environment.

Rail LIVE is aimed at rail industry professionals, including infrastructure owners, contractors, operators, engineers, suppliers, manufacturers, and technology providers.

Rail LIVE is held at Porterbrook's Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre, an outdoor venue in the UK that allows for live rail demonstrations and large-scale equipment displays.

Rail LIVE allows visitors to see rail products and technologies demonstrated live, engage with a broad cross-section of over 290 rail exhibitors, and speak directly with suppliers to understand how solutions work in real rail environments. The event also brings together the wider rail family, creating opportunities for networking, knowledge sharing, and building long-term relationships across the rail supply chain.

Visitors can see rail technology brought to life through live demonstrations, full-scale vehicles, and infrastructure displays that show how solutions work in practice. Rather than static exhibits alone, Rail LIVE offers hands-on insight, direct access to suppliers, and a real-world view of how innovation is shaping the rail industry.

Yes. Rail LIVE is designed for technical audiences and focuses on real-world rail applications, engineering solutions, and operational challenges.

Yes. A core feature of Rail LIVE is live demonstrations, where exhibitors show equipment, vehicles, and technologies in action.

Yes. Rail LIVE brings together suppliers and buyers, making it relevant for those researching, comparing, or sourcing rail products and services.

Yes. Rail LIVE shows engineering solutions in action through live demonstrations and full-scale displays, helping engineers understand how technologies are applied on the railway.

Yes. Rail LIVE connects contractors with suppliers, plant, and infrastructure solutions that support the delivery of rail construction and maintenance projects.

Yes. Rail LIVE brings together infrastructure solutions and technologies that support asset performance, maintenance planning, and long-term railway operation.

Exhibitors take part by showcasing products or services through outdoor stands, live demonstrations, marquees, and premium spaces, depending on requirements. To learn more, reach out to the team. 

Rail LIVE enables exhibitors to demonstrate solutions in a working rail environment and engage directly with a specialist rail audience. 79% of attendees hold decision-making power, and with over 7000 attendees consisting of first-timers and yearly attendees, there’s no shortage of highly influential people to connect with.

Exhibitors typically include rail infrastructure suppliers, plant, machinery, and equipment providers, rolling stock manufacturers and suppliers, rail technology and digital solution companies, engineering, maintenance, and service providers, and specialist rail solution organisations from across the rail supply chain.

Yes. Rail LIVE is designed to support live demonstrations, allowing exhibitors to show how products perform in real conditions, and giving visitors the opportunity to explore the products in person.

Rail LIVE is often used by exhibitors to introduce and demonstrate products, new and old, directly to rail professionals in an applied, operational setting.

Seeing live demonstrations and speaking with engineers and suppliers at Rail LIVE provides practical insight into how technologies are applied on the railway.

Rail LIVE’s outdoor format allows exhibitors to display large-scale plant, vehicles, and infrastructure equipment that may not be suitable for indoor venues.

Rail LIVE is held outdoors and focuses on live demonstrations, enabling hands-on engagement and real-world application rather than purely stand-based displays.

Yes. The event emphasises applied rail engineering, operational solutions, and demonstrable outcomes rather than theoretical concepts.

Rail LIVE provides a platform for suppliers to demonstrate new technologies and methods directly to industry professionals.

Rail LIVE is suited to organisations across the rail industry that want to see, showcase, or explore rail solutions in a real working environment, with opportunities for face-to-face engagement and industry networking.

Yes. The event connects suppliers with operators, contractors, and infrastructure owners in a shared working environment.

Yes. Rail LIVE is where the entire rail industry gathers for 2 days of networking. The show’s format enables direct interaction between exhibitors, visitors, and industry stakeholders throughout the event.