Scotland - Forthcoming Events

When: 15 October 2024, 18:00 -19:00
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Anthony Smith, Director of Consumer Focus

When Anthony Smith announced his decision to step down from the helm at Transport Focus from the end of 2023, the chair Nigel Stevens said: “Anthony has dedicated almost 25 years to representing transport users. Transport Focus has become a trusted voice on their behalf, advocating in their interest and holding transport operators to account. The Board and colleagues are grateful for the commitment, leadership and passion Anthony has provided through a period of great change. He will leave Transport Focus in a strong position to face the challenges ahead.”

Now Anthony is Chair of the Heathrow Area Transport Forum, Independent Rail Retailers, National Transport Awards and Customer Service Excellence category at the National Rail Awards. He will reflect for us on how consumer representation in the transport sector has evolved so as to make the best use of all the communication tools now available. 

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Competencies;

• PAS1.1 Passenger Movement Principles
• TP1.4 Information Systems and Intelligent Mobility

When: 11 November 2024, 18:00 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: David Pemberton, Director of Railway Paths Limited  


David Pemberton runs Railway Paths Limited, established in 1998 in the wake of the privatisation of British Rail, with the grant of around 1000 hectares (or approximately 250 route miles) of ex-railway land. Within the DfT, the ex-railway estate not transferred to Network Rail is still sometimes referred to as the "burdensome estate". Yet over the last 25 years, Railway Paths has used it to create public benefit, and although a charity, manages the land as a commercial estate deriving income from rents, sales, ransom strips and servitudes.

The objective of Railway Paths is to lease its land for use as cycle paths. Its leaseholders (principally Sustrans and local authorities) pay £1 for the lease, but have the responsibility for constructing & maintaining the path, looking after the public, and managing the land. In return, Railway Paths manages circa 750 railway structures ranging from listed viaducts, bridges carrying national roads, and major tunnels, to tiny culverts. Of particular interest in Scotland, the talk will look at: North Water Viaduct (Montrose), Big Water of Fleet Viaduct (Galloway), development of landholdings in Paisley and Glasgow, and Loanhead to Millerhill (Edinburgh).

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Competencies:

• TP1.1 Transport Infrastructure and Network Resilience
• TP2.2 Transport and Spatial Planning
• EQ1.2 Project Management

When: 16 November 2024, 10:30 (to start) 11:00 - 16:30
Where: National Museum of Scotland, EH1 1JF 

This event is self-guided, led by John Yellowlees

Heading up to Wylam Dilly which is the second-oldest surviving railway locomotive in the world, you’ll be in the Science and Technology galleries by the Argyll car, and the Stewart F1 cars, and a model of a marine Scotch boiler. If you go up one floor you’ll come to the bicycles and motorbikes, plus the ship models and aero engines, including the Wright Brother’s engine, propellers etc, and throughout that space are five aircraft from Pilcher’s hawk at the top to the Piper Tomahawk nearer the ground.

In the Museum of Scotland building is a sedan chair and the oldest road vehicle which is actually a horse-drawn hearse that is believed to have carried Burns’ mother. On the top floor in that building, in the ‘Scotland a changing nation’ gallery, you’ll find much more about the shipbuilding and car building industries, including a Hillman Imp, plus some airline models relating to post-war air travel. There’s also Graham Obree’s bicycle and various sports-related transport (mostly motor racing) in the Sporting Hall of Heroes.

If you are in the Grand Gallery and go through past the Millennium clock you’ll come to more Scottish-built bicycles and some off-road motorcycles. Finally, on the wall in the Grand Gallery, the display called ‘Window on the World’ has various transport related items. As well as the BR totems and the signals there is the Joe Potts car, the gyroplane, the quadruplet bicycle, plus various loco models most of which work on timers. 

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