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14-15 INFRARAIL 2012 RTM reports from the biggest UK rail event of the year, where thousands of visitors saw the latest in rail technology and heard from the industry’s leading fi gures, including Network Rail’s Simon Kirby.
16-21 COMMENT Ever-closer ties between the rail industry and academia are the subject of our interview with RRUKA’s Simon Iwnicki and Anson Jack, while we also get a Manchester perspective on the Northern Hub proposals.
23-29 TRAINING We hear from NSARE’s Gil Howarth, People 1st’s Simon Tarr and Lloyd’s Register’s John Stansfeld about skills gaps in the rail industry, engineers’ perceptions and a funding bid to train thousands of railway workers.
30-37 ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY FirstGroup has been named among the best companies in the world for sustainability – RTM fi nds out how its rail businesses have contributed, and gets an update on Network Rail’s new eco-HQ, The Quadrant:MK.
38-49 LONDON UNDERGROUND Wi-fi on the Tube, joint emergency response by TfL and British Transport Police, and an award-winning project at Sloane Square station are among the subjects RTM looks at this edition.
50-53 ELECTRIFICATION & OLE Network Rail’s programme sponsor for north-west electrifi cation David Golding says we need a ‘rolling programme’ of upgrades, and the Welsh Government’s transport director Frances Duffy calls for more investment.
54-64 ROLLING STOCK RTM takes a look at the Mk III coach refurbishment, and talks to Southeastern about a remote condition monitoring system that’s boosting performance, saving money and reducing delays.
68-71 STATION MODERNISATION & EQUIPMENT As work races ahead at Blackfriars, it is easy to forget just how challenging aspects of this project have been, working over the Thames and over a live Tube line that had to be protected inside a metal ‘cage’.
16-21 COMMENT
INFARAIL 2012 14-15 EDITORIAL BOARD
Andy Mitchell is the Programme Director for Crossrail. He also directed the Southern Power
Upgrade project and secured funding and consents for the Thameslink programme. Mitchell is also a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers.
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Lord Tony Berkeley chairs the Rail Freight Group. He is the Secretary of the All- Party Parliamentary
Rail Group, a board member of the European Rail Freight Association, member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport.
Dave Mullin is Innovation Programme
Manager at Network Rail. Mullin is also
the non-executive director for SITC (Security Innovation and Technology Consortium).
Neil Andrew
is Head of Systems and Technology at Balfour Beatty Rail. Balfour Beatty is
an international rail engineering, design and construction business.
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