LONDON UNDERGROUND
NEXT GENERATION RAIL
thrown up a couple of new ideas for me from academia, which has been interesting. It’s made me decide that I’d like to do a PhD at some point.”
His colleague on the scheme, Matt Lees, a graduate of Imperial College London, said it was exciting to hear about developments at places like the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education. “They’ve got a whole range of things that are 30 years away from development, and things that are coming online in the next couple of years,” he said. “Some of the research out there is really abstract and futuristic, whereas other bits are solving problems we’ve got today.”
He joked about an analogy he’d heard at the conference comparing the rail industry to Narnia – “a magical world that nobody knows exists until you open it up and realise there is a
whole other world out there!”
He said his initial interest was in civils and structural engineering, but a module in transport got him thinking about rail. “It’s in the news and a booming industry,” he said, listing some of the major programmes and projects that “will make a huge different to people on a day-to-day basis”, from the Northern Hub to Crossrail.
Having an impact
YRP chairman Adam Stead, interviewed in the last edition of RTM, said there had been “lots of positive feedback and everyone’s enthusiastic”.
He said: “There are lots of young people in the rail industry doing research and innovation and this is celebrating what they’ve done. Most of the delegates have come straight into the industry this year, doing graduate schemes and apprenticeship schemes, and this is a first experience for them. We’ve also got people three or four years into their careers explaining what they’ve managed to achieve already, and they can inspire people to stay within rail and progress their career, showing the newer people ‘this is the impact you could have’.”
The event was also used to showcase a new video that’s been created to inspire people to work in the rail industry. Dennis called it “tremendous” and there was lots of good feedback from delegates, plus suggestions to improve it. The video will soon be available at
www.railtechnologymagazine.tv
Umar Saleem, 28, is a project manager with Alstom at Chester Train Care Centre, who was also at last year’s Next Generation Rail
event in London. He got his IMechE Chartered Engineer status last year. He said: “It’s really encouraging to see the talent and potential of the next generation of engineers and researchers. It gives me hope that this industry is just going to get bigger and better.”
Simon Iwnicki, academic co-chair of RRUKA and director of the Institute of Railway Research at the University of Huddersfield, said: “I enjoyed Next Generation Rail. I think it was a really positive and exciting event and certainly achieved our aims. There really was a buzz about it and the networking was excellent throughout.”
Jonathan Gregory, a delegate from RSSB, said: “The conference was a real eye-opener. As someone relatively new to the rail industry, I had no idea there was so much creative research.”
The event was sponsored by the RSSB, Rail Technology Magazine, Thales, Arup, Alstom, South West Trains and TRL and endorsed by 13 supporters.
W:
http://rruka.org.uk/events/ngr2014/ FOR MORE INFORMATION
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