Modern Railways’ Rail in Wales and the West Conference

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MR^▸ (Midland Railway, or Motor Rail, depending on context) is hosting a one day conference on the above as part of its Fourth Friday Club,
The schedule is as below and can be followed on Twitter @Modern_Railways

  SCHEDULE
10.30 Introduction from the chair – Ian Walmsley

10.35 Taking TfW^▸ (Transport for Wales) Rail forward – Marie Daly, Chief Operating Officer, Transport for Wales

10.55 Modernising the Valley Lines – Nathan Sealy, Regional Engineering Director, Amey Consulting

11.15 Discussion

11.25 Coffee break

11.50 Great Western post-pandemic – Mark Hopwood, Managing Director, Great Western Railway

12.10 Improving the infrastructure – Bill Kelly, Route Director – Wales & Borders, Network Rail 

12.30 Luminate Traffic Management – Gavin Panter, Customer Engagement Director, Resonate

12.50 Discussion

13.00 Lunch 

14.20 Using British Innovation to Transform the Railway – Trish Shanahan, Business Development Director, Thales

14.40 Building a world class testing centre – Andy Doherty, Chief Technical Officer, Global Centre of Railway Excellence

15.00 Restoring Your Railway: the lessons from Okehampton – Christian Irwin, Industry Programme Director for the South West, Network Rail and Matt Barnes, Head of Strategic Service Development, GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) 

Previous meetings can also be found on the MR website