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COMMENT p14-22 Contributors include the TSB’s Richard Kemp-Harper on a new innovation competition, Translink NI’s Clive Bradberry on improvements to the Northern Ireland rail network, and Tony Lodge making the case for competition.
DDRF ANNUAL CONFERENCE p23-25 Full coverage from the Derby & Derbyshire Rail Forum’s fl agship event, with an impressive line-up of speakers. Further coverage on p45 and p80.
NSARE p26-27 NSARE chief executive Gil Howarth talks to RTM about the results of its skills forecasting project.
TICKETING AND PAYMENT p28-35 ITSO, Transport for London and Cubic are among our contributors, discussing inter-operability, contactless payments, smart ticketing and more.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT p36-39 MTR’s Jeremy Long argues that its project management in Hong Kong has direct lessons for some major UK rail schemes.
SECURITY AND SAFETY p40-43 RTM looks at how the rail network is protecting itself from threats, both from people in the case of crime and terrorism, and nature as with the recent south Yorkshire landslip.
ROLLING STOCK & TRACTION p45-52 Richard Brown on his review into future rolling stock requirements, and Northern Rail’s engineering director Stuart Draper on the refurbishment of the Class 142 fl eet.
CONSTRUCTION AND INFRASTRUCTURE p53-64 Crossrail, Crossrail 2 and the York ROC are among the railway construction projects we look at in this section.
CABLES AND CABLE ACCESSORIES p65-68 Protecting against cable theft, and some innovative solutions improving the use of cables across the industry.
36-39 PROJECT MANAGEMENT
23-25 DDRF ANNUAL CONFERENCE
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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