Rail Events

When: 20 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speakers: 

• Mark Goodall, Route Director Wessex, Network Rail
• Greg March , Freight Business Development Manager (South), Railfreight Team, Network Rail/GBRTT
• David Fletcher, Rail Director, Cappagh
• Julian Worth, Chair - CILT Rail Freight Forum -“ Industry Update”

The Rail Freight Forum programme for 2025 begins with two more inspiring speakers from Network Rail. Mark Goodall, Route Director Wessex will draw upon his experience in the industry to talk about “Leadership in rail freight in 2025”

Greg March, Freight Business Development Manager, will focus upon “New Energies”. These topics underscore the ways in which today's railway continues to innovate and develop means of carrying more of the essential goods we need and want. They look to a future in which the railway becomes more digitally driven, with new skills to be learned and new jobs created for people from all backgrounds. 

The concluding part of the evening will be the “Industry Update” from the Forum Chair, Julian Worth. Each presenter will speak for 20 minutes, allowing 10 minutes for Question & Answer sessions.

In the year in which RAILWAY 200 celebrates the pioneering opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway on 27th September 1825, the Rail Freight Forum looks towards the next 200 years in which the railway will continue to play a central role in British life and sustainable national prosperity. This virtual event is open to all CILT members from across the Nations and Regions, as well as colleagues in other CILT for a. We especially wish to engage with professional logisticians and supply chain managers, with an unrivalled opportunity to enhance Continuing Professional Development CPD

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• FM1.1 Freight Transport Operations and Services
• LE1.1 Leadership, Organisational Culture and Change Management
• DT2 Technology, Modelling and Simulation

When: 03 March 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speakers: 

• Tim Shoveller,Chief Executive Officer, Freightliner Group
• Peter Graham, Policy & Regulatory Affairs Director , Freightliner Group

CILT East Midlands is delighted to welcome Tim Shoveller, CEO at Freightliner Group, to discuss how rail freight fits into modern UK supply chains and the benefits it can provide in terms of decarbonisation and business efficiency.

Rail Freight is one of the cleanest forms of transporting goods, removing up to 76% carbon when compared to diesel road.  Freightliner own and operate Rail, Terminal, and Road operations across the UK, offering a single point of contact for complete end to end operations, which provides a seamless transition from Road to Rail for improved UK supply chains. 

Rail can seamlessly integrate with your supply chains and support both seasonal activities and long-term planning. A single freight train removes up to 52 HGVs from our busy road network, allowing road operations to be remodelled for long haul and short haul operations. Operating over 200 trains per day across 12 in-land and port-based terminals, Freightliner can help adapt supply chains for improved costs and ESG benefits.

Freightliner have nearly 60 years of experience in managing and operating rail freight, providing the highest levels of safety and compliance in the industry. Operating right across the UK rail network, Freightliner can customise rail solutions to connect with inland terminals and cross docking through UK train stations with High Speed rail, whilst also providing final mile transportation.

Freightliner are evolving and focusing on simplified and streamlined logistics solutions, developing the knowledge of rail freight across the industry, encouraging more 3PLs and BCOs to consider all the benefits of utilising rail.

Speaker: Tim Shoveller is CEO at Freightliner Group 
Freightliner is the UK’s largest maritime intermodal rail freight operator, transporting containers from all major deep-sea ports to our national network of inland terminals, as well as a leading operator in the UK Heavy Haul rail freight market. 


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When: 4 March 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Meeting
Speaker: Daniel Wright, Freelance Transport Writer

It's the large items that usually come to mind when we think of transport heritage, but the likes of Flying Scotsman and the Forth Bridge enjoy plenty of protection. Not so the smaller things such as signs, clocks and weighing machines that give character to railway journeys but can be at risk of removal at the whim of a management set on modernisation. Taking examples from throughout Britain, transport writer and campaigner Daniel Wright makes a plea to save these items whose familiarity he believes attract people to train travel and for which the first need may be to compile a list of what's there. Daniel is a transport planner whose first job after graduating from Aston University was at the newly-created Institute of Logistics and Transport in London, where he worked during 1999 as a Policies Assistant.

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Competency:
TP1.1 Transport Infrastructure and Network Resilience

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Communities Team