Overview
You are invited to be part of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers Railway Challenge competition. This event showcases the culmination
of locomotive building skills, expertise, knowledge, and business acumen of 15
participating teams of undergraduate students, industry apprentices and young
professionals.
The challenge, now in its ninth successive year, has and
will continue to bring together teams, officials, volunteers, industry partners
and the general public to a weekend filled with miniature (10¼” gauge) railway
locomotives. They have been built to a set of strict rules and a detailed
technical specification over the past 9-10 months and will now be tested live.
Several categories of winners and an overall Railway Challenge champion will be
crowned at the event.
Participating teams are:
1. FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences and Reuschling
2. Bombardier Transportation
3. University of Huddersfield
4. Poznań University of Technology
5. Ricardo Rail
6. Transport for London
7. South Western Railway
8. Newcastle University
9. University of Birmingham
10. Brunel University (London)
11.
Queen Mary University of London
12.
University of Sheffield
13.
University of Warwick
14.
Network Rail
15.
Lenz Ltd
For more information about the competition please visit
www.imeche.org/railwaychallenge and follow us on:
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For further queries please contact railawchallenge@iemche.org