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TUESDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 2017
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08:30
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REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
Chaired by: Richard McClean, Managing Director, Grand Central Rail
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09:00
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CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Richard McClean, Managing Director, Grand Central Rail
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THE STATE OF THE PERFORMANCE PROBLEM
Chaired by: Dean Johnson, National Task Force (NTF) Delivery Manager, Rail Delivery Group
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09:10
Keynote
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CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE: A VIEW FROM NETWORK RAIL
Chris Rowley, Capacity Planning Director, Network Rail
- How Network Rail and the industry currently view and assess the relationship between Capacity and Performance
- Insights into the critical nature of the relationship with some local route-based examples
- How we might evolve our approach to reflect current circumstances
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09:40
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STATE OF THE RAILWAY: A SYSTEM OPERATION?
Chris Gibb, Independent
- Developing the railway as a system
- Remembering the customers in our industry decisions
- Confidence in the next generation of railway people
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10:10
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CHANGING THE FOCUS THROUGH CHANGING HOW WE MEASURE PERFORMANCE
Simon Reay, Industry Performance Relationship Manager, Network Rail
- How we measure performance influences how we manage performance an judge if we are successful
- The journey the Rail Delivery Group has taken to shift towards On-Time and Every Minute of Lateness Counts
- The consequences to performance management of the strategies and the capture of increasingly detailed data on train movements
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10:40
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QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
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10:55
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NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
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CAPACITY’S IMPACT ON PERFORMANCE
Chaired by: Malcolm Dobell, Non Executive Director, CPC Systems
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11:35
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LONDON OVERGROUND:A METRO SERVICE ON MAINLINE INFRASTRUCTURE
Geoff Hobbs, Head of Rail & Underground Transport Planning, Transport for London
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12:05
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A NEW APPROACH TO RELIABILITY ANALYSIS
Paul Naylor, Operations Consultant, CPC Project Services
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12:35
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BALANCING CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE IN FAST-GROWING REGIONAL CENTRES
Rob Warnes, Performance & Planning Director, Northern Rail
- Can we continue to trade capacity and performance?
- Can we continue to grow our railway and run more reliably?
- What do we need to do to achieve both?
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13:05
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QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
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13:20
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NETWORKING LUNCH
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SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM
Chaired by: Andrew Skinner, Head of Engineering, Great Western Railway
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14:20
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BRINGING TRACK AND TRAIN TOGETHER THROUGH ROUTE BASED SUPERVISORY BOARDS
Dick Fearn, Chairman, Western Route Supervisory Board
- Growth in traffic across the rail network requires even greater coordination of effort between infrastructure managers and train operator
- Meeting ever-increasing passenger expectations in service quality and delivery demands well-coordinated performance management by line of route
- The role of the new route supervisory boards in helping industry partners to achieve these objectives
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14:50
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LONG-TERM CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE BETWEEN READING AND LONDON PADDINGTON
Ben Sturgess, Lead Strategic Planner, Network Rail
- A review of the long-term capacity challenges on this busy route to 2043
- Options and trade-offs between journey types, capacity and punctuality
- The role that new technologies can play in meeting these challenges
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15:20
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MAPPING PERFORMANCE IN RAIL
Oliver Bratton, Operations Director, European Business, MTR Corporation Ltd.
- How visualisation of the problem can assist with finding solutions
- Managing the difficulty of showing the numerous inputs that contribute to performance and capacity
- What techniques can be used to show the key variables affecting performance given the complexity of railway operations
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15:50
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QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
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16:05
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NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
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16:35
Panel Discussion
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FUTURE OF RAIL PERFORMANCE
Chaired by: Richard McClean, Managing Director, Grand Central Rail
Mark Hopwood, Managing Director, Great Western Railway
Francis How, Chief Executive, Institution of Railway Signal Engineers
- How will future rail projects such as Crossrail 2 and HS2 manage their capacity to ensure high performance?
- With ever-rising passenger numbers, what will the outlook be in the next ten years?
- With a constantly evolving industry, what technology could be helpful in the future to help improve performance?
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17:20
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CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
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17:30
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END OF SEMINAR
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