Day 1
08:30 - WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 2015
REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:00 THE INSTITUTION’S PERSPECTIVE
CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS: WHAT IS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING?
Iain Flynn, Head of Network Operations Business Planning Professional Head, Sponsorship, Network Rail
• Addressing organisation complexity: getting that out of the way
• Understanding limitations: legacy assets, economics, and the laws of physics
• How weak links undermine the whole system
09:15 THE BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE
KEYNOTE: KEEPING LONDON MOVING
Gareth Powell, Director of Strategy and Service Development, London Rail at Transport for London
• Understanding the requirements of London as a growing city
• Explore projects to improve capacity
• Understanding the challenges faced by London Underground and Rail
09:40 THE ENGINEER’S PERSPECTIVE CROSS-INDUSTRY INSIGHT: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE RAILWAY
Graham Hopkins, Director Safety, Technical and Sustainability, Network Rail
PANEL DISCUSSION: WHAT DOES SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MEAN TO YOU AND YOUR ORGANISATION?
• Understanding the system level issues
• Optimising existing infrastructure and the challenges of existing spaces
• Uniting engineering and political perspectives
10.40 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
BASE CAMP: GETTING MORE FROM THE LEGACY RAILWAY THROUGH INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENT
11:10 CASE STUDY: WATERLOO TO WOKING: HOW MUCH MORE CAN AN OVERCROWDED RAILWAY TAKE?
David Clarke, Director of Innovation, RSSB and Clive Roberts, Professor of Railway Systems, University of Birmingham
11:35 SYSTEMS ENGINEERING IN THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY John Halsall, Alliance Infrastructure Director, Network Rail
• Connecting operations and infrastructure
• Insight into the CREST project and capacity enhancement on South West Trains
12:00 THE CAPACITY CHALLENGE ON LONDON’S OVERGROUND
Geoff Hobbs, Head of Transport Planning, Transport for London Rail and Underground
• Causes of demand growth and its impact on London Overground
• TfL’s role in funding, sponsoring and project delivery
• Infrastructure and rolling stock solutions
• Delivery in practice on both TfL and Network Rail estates
• What’s next to keep up with growth on London Overground?
12:30 NETWORKING LUNCH
Chair: Kuldeep Gharatya, Head of Technical Strategy, System Performance and Innovation Capital Programmes Directorate, London Underground
13:30 THE CHALLENGES OF TRANSPENNINE
Fiona Dolman, Director of Capacity Planning, Network Rail and Chris Nutton, Programme Director, First TransPennine Express First Group
• Understand the challenges of moving from four trains an hour to five
• Transition from a ‘loose-coupled’ to a ‘tightly-coupled’ system
• Ensuring attention to detail and ultimately what makes it all work
14:05 OPTIMISING THE LEGACY SYSTEM – THE CHALLENGE OF FLEET MAINTENANCE
Peter Smyth, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Irish Rail
• Railway fleet maintenance public sector co-existence with private sector suppliers
• What to outsource and what to do in-house for best fit fleet maintenance
• Improving fleet and depot safety, reliability and performance with major resource constraints
• Changing attitudes and “the way we have always done things” using LEAN techniques
14:30 LONDON UNDERGROUND: SERVING THE 24 HOUR CITY
Keith Foley, Head of Night Tube, London Underground
• The case for a 24 hour tube service – does London really need it?
• Integrated transport – changing the face of overnight travel on all modes
• The asset challenge – maintaining and upgrading the railway after Night Tube launch
15:00 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN: COMPLETE LINE UPGRADES
15:40 GREAT WESTERN ROUTE MODERNISATION THROUGH INDUSTRY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
Tim Coffey, GWRM Head of Industry Systems Integration, Network Rail
• Gain an overview of the current programme
• Insight into leading systems integration across the industry
• Explore the lessons learned and critical success factors
16:00 CROSSRAIL: INTEGRATION OF THE END-TO-END RAILWAY
Chris Sexton, Technical Director, Crossrail
• Crossrail’s definition of ‘railway integration’
• Gain insight into the roles and accountabilities within Crossrail
• Explore the tools and governance currently in place
16:40 CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
Kuldeep Gharatya, Head of Technical Strategy, System Performance and Innovation Capital Programmes Directorate, London Underground
16:50 END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Day 2
08:30 - THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2015
08:30 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:00 CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Mark Howard, Acting Director of Rail Systems Engineering, High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd
09:10 TECHNOLOGICAL DETOUR
COOLING THE UNDERGROUND - A SYSTEMS APPROACH
Tony Lightfoot, Lead Systems Performance Engineer, London Underground
• The challenge: demand, capacity and constraints
• A systems approach: performance, power and cooling
• Innovation: tackling future demand
09:40 OPTIMISATION IN TUNNELS 2: HIGH SPEED TUNNELS
Mark Gilbey, Principal Engineer, Parsons Brinckerhoff
• Exploring the sources of heat in higher speed tunnels
• Understanding the impacts of heat on systems and comfort
• Heat mitigation and balancing throughout
10:10 DEALING WITH ADHESION AT AN INDUSTRY LEVEL: AWG AND ARG
Mark Hopwood, Managing Director, First Great Western and Neil Ovenden, Chair of the Adhesion Working Group
• The underlying engineering problem
• It’s serious: scale and mitigations
• Managing a deeply technical problem through organisational complexity
• What next?
10:40 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:10 THE PLATFORM TRAIN INTERFACE STRATEGY IN NETWORK RAIL
David Galloway, Senior Engineer Track and Civils, Network Rail
• The challenge of the platform train interface
• Lessons learned
• Next steps
11:50 HS2 PLATFORM TRAIN INTERFACE STRATEGY
Thomas Williamson, Traction & Rolling Stock Engineer, High Speed Two (HS2)
• Background to the challenge and the case for level access
• Establishing suitable requirements for the new interface
• HS2’s emerging solution
12:30 NETWORKING LUNCH
REACHING THE SUMMIT: BIG TICKET PROJECTS
Chair: Phil Hinde, Principal Engineer, Rolling Stock and Depots, Crossrail
13:20 HOW HS2 WILL ADDRESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Giles Thomas, Rail Systems Director, HS2
• Planning for whole life costs and asset management
• Opportunities and challenges facing HS2 design and delivery
• Designing a systems passenger and operational need
14:10 CROSSRAIL 2: A NEW RAILWAY FOR LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST
Stephen Pauling, Transport Planning Manager, Crossrail 2
• What is Crossrail 2?
• Why does London and the South East need Crossrail 2?
• Work on Crossrail 2 to date, including option appraisal and next steps
14:40 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:10 THINKING WHOLE SYSTEM
Mike Brownsword, Principal Systems Engineering Consultant, Atkins Global
• “What’s the problem, it’s just a railway?”: balancing objectives
• Working across disciplines: terminology and consistency
• Facilitating consistent discussion: frameworks for development
15:40 PANEL DISCUSSION: ADDRESSING THE IMPACT OF CAPACITY AND GROWTH
• People: predicting how demand will increase in the coming years and ensuring passenger expectations are met
• There hasn’t always been growth – will it continue?
• Product: evaluating the service as a whole
• Process: identifying areas to improve operations
16:20 CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
With Organising Committee
16:30 END OF CONFERENCE