The Lecture will start at 6pm with refreshments available from 5.15pm.
Following on from last year in the Sir Seymour Biscoe Tritton lecture, when Tony Mercado laid down a series of challenges to the Rail sector. This year's lecture will see one of the Rail Industry's best known and thoughtful leaders take up the gauntlet. Ian Brown, Managing Director of London Rail, will explain how Rail in London is already playing a key part in delivering a sustainable transport system, and how this will be developed further in the coming years.
Ian Brown, Managing Director, London Rail, Transport for London
Ian Brown is Managing Director of Transport for London’s rail directorate and Chairman of the Docklands Light Railway.
Transport for London is the Mayor of London’s transport agency for the capital.
He is responsible for implementing the Mayor’s strategy to provide a full integration of National Rail services with London’s transport network and taking forward major National Rail projects in London, including the introduction of the London Overground and major rail service infrastructure upgrades.
London Rail is also responsible for TFL’s light rail activity; DLR and London Tramlink.
Docklands Light Railway is also taking forward a series of major enhancements including additional capacity and new extensions as part of London’s 2012 Olympic Transport plan.
Prior to joining TFL, Ian had a wide range of experience in the rail industry; he was Managing Director of Rail-freight Distribution for eight years where he introduced Channel Tunnel rail freight services.
He was previously a member of the Chairman’s Policy Unit at the British Railway’s Board. Other BR positions included InterCity Manager, West Coast Main Line, and Chief Passenger Manager at London Midland Region.
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Sir Seymour Biscoe Tritton, K.B.E.
Sir Seymour Biscoe Tritton, K.B.E. (1860-1937), son of the late Colonel F. B. Tritton of the Welsh Fusiliers, was educated at Haileybury and the University College, London and carried out his technical education at R. and W. Hawthorns of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
In 1885 he was appointed Assistant Locomotive Superintendent on the Bengal and North Western Railway and subsequently entered the service of the Government of India as Assistant Superintendent and Works Manager on the Eastern Bengal Railway at Kanchrapara. He was later to become Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent on the Northern Bengal Railway. On returning home on sick leave, Tritton took up the post of chief of the staff of Messrs. Rendell and Palmer. He was later made a partner, making the firm Rendell, Palmer and Tritton, consulting engineers to the Government of India and numerous Indian and other Colonial railways.
During the first World War the firm advised the War Office and Ministry of Munitions on matters relating to railway work. Tritton was awarded the K.B.E. in 1918 in recognition of his services during the war.
In 1925 he toured the Indian railways at the request of the Government of India in connection with the design of standard locomotives. He sat on several committees of the British Standards Institution.
Tritton was not only a member of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers, but also the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Naval Engineers.