High Speed Rail Technologies

Name: High Speed Rail Technologies
Start: 2016-09-26T09:00:00
Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

26 September 2016
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- A unique opportunity to meet train operating companies and learn about new requirements in the high speed rail industry.

- Learn from past experience of high speed rail development to inform the future.

- Understand the huge value that high speed rail can bring to Scotland's economy and infrastructure.

Overview

Work on high speed connections between London and Scotland is due to begin next year and implementation from 2019 onwards.

Take this opportunity to hear about the past 40 years of high speed rail in the UK in order to inform the future work on all projects, in particular the London to Scotland route.

The seminar will trace through the history of high speed rail and its development, allowing you to learn what has worked and how it can be improved as we move into an exciting period of high speed rail projects.

Speakers include:

Karen Boswell OBE, Managing Director, Hitachi Rail Europe

Andy Mellors, Engineering Director and Deputy Managing Director, Great Western
Railway

Sean Horkan, Engineering Director, HS1

Felix Schmid, Education Director, Birmingham Centre For Railway Research and Education, The University of Birmingham

Andrew McNaughton, Technical Director, HS2 Ltd

Jim Steer, Director and Founder, Steer Davies Gleave and Director, Greengauge 21

Andrew Love, Head of Signalling & Train Control Systems, SNC-Lavalin

Doug Blanc, Head of Operations Control & Traffic Management Systems, SNC-Lavalin

Andrew McLean, Head Curator, National Railway Museum

Day 1

08:30 - Full Day Programme

08:30 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

09:00 CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Andy Mellors, Engineering Director and Deputy Managing Director, Great Western Railway

WHERE ARE WE NOW?

09:10 THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TRAIN IN THE WORLD?
Andrew McLean, Head Curator, National Railway Museum
• The lead-up to High Speed Technology (HST) development
• The HST effect
• The National Railway Museum (NRM) and HST

09:35 MORNING KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 52 YEARS OF HIGH SPEED – WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT?
Karen Boswell OBE, Managing Director, Hitachi Rail Europe
• Effective collaboration for delivery
• Focusing on connectivity for passengers and operators
• Promoting continuous improvement

10:05 LEARNING FROM OPERATING THE UK’S ONLY HIGH SPEED LINE
Sean Horkan, Engineering Director, HS1

10:35 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

10:45 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

ECONOMIC BENEFITS AND SOCIOECONOMIC CHALLENGES

11:15 PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE WITH HIGH SPEED RAIL
Jim Steer, Director and Founder, Steer Davies Gleave and Director, Greengauge 21

• InterCity and the 200km/h era
• HS1: the channel tunnel rail link
• French lessons

11:45 HOW HIGH SPEED RAIL IS CHALLENGING THE AEROSPACE MARKET?
Speaker to be announced

12:15 COMPARING JAPANESE AND EUROPEAN APPROACHES TO HIGH SPEED RAILWAY DESIGN
Felix Schmid, Education Director, Birmingham Centre For Railway Research and Education, The
University Of Birmingham

12:45 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

13:00 NETWORKING LUNCH

TECHNOLOGY FOR SUCCESS

14:00 AFTERNOON KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGH SPEED RAIL (HSR)
Andrew McNaughton, Technical Director, HS2 Ltd
• What makes HSR successful?
• Emerging “types” of HSR
• Developing HSR for the UK

14:30 METROS: A DIGITAL INCUBATOR FOR HIGH SPEED RAIL?
Andrew Love, Head of Signalling & Train Control Systems, SNC-Lavalin and Doug Blanc,
Head of Operations Control & Traffic Management Systems, SNC-Lavalin
• What progress have metro systems made in implementing digital technologies?
• What can high speed rail learn from the experiences of metro systems?
• How can lessons from metro-to-mainline railways be “scaled up” to interface conventional mainline-to high speed railways?

15:00 INFRASTRUCTURE: NETWORK RAIL MAINTENANCE
Mike Gallop, Western Route Director of Asset Management, Network Rail

15:30 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

15:45 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

LESSONS LEARNT AND MOVING FORWARD

15:40 PANEL DEBATE WITH AUDIENCE QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
Chaired by Cliff Perry, Independent Consultant

• What can we learn from the old and implement for the new?
• Understanding the decision making process for strategies and investment
• Address the under-investment in depots: what have we learnt and what does the industry need?

16:50 CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS

17:00 END OF SEMINAR

Andrew McNaughton: Technical Director, HS2 Ltd

Andrew McNaughton has been Chief Engineer and Technical Director of High Speed Two Ltd since 2009, developing the principles, network and specific route design for high speed rail in Great Britain.

Prior to that, from 2001 he was Chief Engineer of Network Rail responsible for the specification and development of the GB rail network, investment authorisation and overall system safety management.

His career in the rail sector spans 40 years. Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Royal Geographical Society and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He has been Vice Chair of the EU Transport Advisory Group, Chair of the UIC Infrastructure Commission and Chair of the EU Rail Research Council.

Felix Schmid: Education Director, Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education

Felix Schmid studied electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). After graduating, he worked as a software analyst, then became a locomotive control engineer with GEC Traction in Manchester. In 1985, after having worked at UMIST, followed by the University of Salford, he took up a lectureship in control systems and computer integrated manufacturing at Brunel University. In 1993, he was seconded to the Swiss Federal Office of Transport as a railway inspector. He then moved to the Advanced Railway Research centre at the University of Sheffield, where he helped to create the MSc programme in Railway Systems Engineering. Today, Felix is the Education Director of the The Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) and supervises research into railway capacity, systems engineering, human factors and railway control.

Karen Boswell OBE: MD, Hitachi Rail Europe

Karen Boswell leads Hitachi Rail Europe’s (HRE) total railway system business and is a member of Hitachi Rail’s Global Management Committee. As MD, Karen is responsible for delivering the InterCity Express Programme (IEP), which will usher in a new age of rail in Britain for fare-paying customers with the manufacture of high speed trains for the East Coast and Great Western Main Lines, as well as new commuter trains for Scotland and Inter City trains for the West of England and Transpennine Express. She is also focused on expanding HRE’s business by attracting new orders for rolling stock, service delivery, signalling and traffic management systems. Karen was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016.

Andy Mellors: Engineering Director and Deputy Managing Director, Great Western Railway

Jim Steer: Director and Founder, Steer Davies Gleave and Director, Greengauge 21

Andrew Love: Head of Signalling & Train Control Systems, SNC-Lavalin

Doug Blanc: Head of Operations Control & Traffic Management Systems, SNC-Lavalin

Andrew McLean: Head Curator, National Railway Museum

Cliff Perry: Consultant, Independent

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