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IRO Annual Members’ Lunch 2013 Tickets – £47.00 per head
Table of 10 – £470.00 per table (Ticket prices are inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
Our Annual Lunch for Members and Guests will be held at The Mermaid, Puddle Dock, London. On Friday 19th April 2013 from midday. Our guest speaker is the Rt. Hon. Simon Burns, Minister of State for Transport.
subscriptions. Jo Kaye, Strategy and Planning director at Network Rail and former London North Western route director, now chairs the board of directors. Mark Hopwood, First Great Western’s managing director, represents FirstGroup (which employs Isaac Evans) on the board.
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Call: 01785 248113 T IRO’s 3,000th L member
ittle more than ten years after signing up its first members for training, the Institution of Railway Operators has just recorded its 3,000th recruit – train driver Isaac Evans. In the best traditions of train driving, Isaac started his career aged 18 as a cleaner – at First Capital Connect’s Hornsey depot, and then moved on to become a shunter at Welwyn Garden City carriage sidings. But as soon as he reached the qualifying age of 21 Isaac was accepted for driver training, becoming the youngest recruit at FCC’s Kings Cross depot. Now aged 23, he is already into his two-year post-qualifying assessment period and is passed out to drive electric multiple units of classes 313, 317, 321 and 365 on the lines from Kings Cross to Stevenage, Hitchin and Peterborough and to Cambridge. He is also passed out to drive over the Hertford Loop and into Moorgate in the City of London. Keenly enthusiastic about the future of Britain’s railways, Isaac has now signed up to the IRO and is aiming for the highest level of qualification – a Bachelor of Science degree in railway operations from Glasgow Caledonian University. ‘We are absolutely delighted to welcome Isaac Evans as our 3,000th member,’ said IRO chief executive Fiona Tordoff. ‘He is a great example of people in front-line railway operations whom the Institution was set up to help with their personal and professional development.’ The IRO was originally founded by a
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South West Area: Modernising the Western Route – Swindon October 2012
Your local IRO Area runs events all year round. There are opportunities to see how others work, broaden your experience and add to your professional development. Visit the website to find out more…
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group of former British Rail operations managers who believed that operations required a dedicated institution on similar lines to those that already existed for the railway engineering functions. It was formally set up in 2000.
The IRO’s objectives are to advance and promote safe railway operations, and to ensure the Institution acts as the custodian of best practice in railway operational management. Today the IRO is keenly backed by
Network Rail and all the major train operating employers, most of which provide funding through corporate
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The North East Area committee was delighted that this very interesting and informative event brought many new faces from the area, and looks forward to seeing them all again at future visits and meetings. What was learned at this event? How hard driving a train within the performance parameters really is!
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South West Area: Operations Experience Day – West Somerset Railway, Minehead October 2012
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As well as the BSc degree level course, the IRO offers two other levels of qualification – one is a certificate of higher education and the other a diploma of higher education in Railway Operational Management.
North East Area visit to a driving simulator
Valuable opportunities for members to learn and share knowledge
his event was run by Steve Jackson, technical inspector for First TransPennine Express and allowed our members the opportunity to use the driver simulator at the Siemens Arwick depot in York. Steve organised for all attendees to experience the simulator, which consisted of a briefing and a 15 minute session. Visitors also had an unexpected trip around the depot to have a look behind the scenes, including:
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