Rail Events

When: 25 April 2024, 12:30 - 13:30
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Susan Morley MBA, DMS, FCILT, FIFP(grad), LGSM and Chair CILT Customs and International Trade Forum.

Get the answers you need for the new Sanitary and Phytosanitary Rules for Animal and Plant Products from the EU starting 30th April 2024.

Cut through the mis-information and confusion to get to the practical reality of the new rules for SPS goods from the EU and elsewhere being imported via the Port of Dover or the Eurotunnel.

Understand how the new charges will be calculated and when they will be charged (Common User Charge and Inspection Charges) and perhaps most importantly who will have to pay them!

How some of the charges can be legally avoided and how load planning could reduce or increase the amount you have to pay. Time will be given for questions from attendees.

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Competencies:

• FM2.1 Mechanisms for Controlling Freight Operations
• FM2.3 Local, National and International Distribution Networks

When: Tuesday 30 April 2024, 17.30 - 20.00
Where: Rail Delivery Group Offices, London
Speaker: Adeline Ginn MBE, Legal Director for Egis UK & Ireland

The future of rail to the background of uncertainty: a focus on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - how to harness the full potential of a diverse workforce.

For the last few years, EDI has been firmly on the boardroom agenda of many organisations, in the transport and logistics sector but also other industries. However, the pandemic has led to fundamental changes in the way people work and live and with wellbeing and mental health now taking centre stage, many organisations seem uncertain on how to tackle, measure and harness EDI so it can deliver real change and progress.
What is needed is a well thought out, measurable, long-term EDI strategy.

This session will focus on how to develop and implement such a strategy, starting with a thorough diagnostic look at EDI, followed by the drafting of a robust EDI Action Plan, structured to ensure EDI is a strategic priority, with the leadership team as core drivers of the business EDI effort.

Join the Railway Study forum on the 30th of April at Rail Delivery Group’s offices at Puddle Dock, where the forum welcome Adeline Ginn MBE, Legal Director for Egis UK & Ireland who will be discussing how to harness the full potential of a diverse workforce. Adeline Ginn is Legal Director UK & Ireland at Egis, a global consulting, construction and engineering company leading and supporting projects in the transport, mobility, nuclear, building, highways, water, environment and energy industries in over 120 countries worldwide. 

Early 2012, alongside her day job as senior lawyer in the rail industry, Adeline founded Women in Rail, a charity whose aim was to provide a support network for women of diverse backgrounds in the UK railway sector and promote the attraction, retention and development of female talent throughout all grades and roles of the sector’s workforce. Adeline stepped down from Women in Rail in October 2021. Under her leadership, the charity experienced tremendous success and growth and became an integral part of the railway industry's consciousness, securing the support of senior leaders and key stakeholders UK, including the government, running flagship events, a cross-industry mentoring programme and in November 2020, launching the first ever railway industry EDI Charter, in collaboration with RIA. 

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When: 23 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:30
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker:Philip Breen, earn Recognition National Account Manager.



Phil Breen has worked for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) for over eighteen years, working in both Testing and Enforcement departments. Having been a Traffic Examiner for several years, he brought this knowledge forward into heading up bus compliance for DVSA and now looking after the Earned Recognition scheme. The DVSA Earned Recognition is the flagship Enforcement scheme for DVSA, which enables the agency to free up resource so they can target the serially and seriously non-compliant. This helps us all stay safe on our roads, as well as offering both costs savings to members & giving commercial advantages. The Earned Recognition audit standards, sets a blueprint for what compliance looks like for an operator or business, ensure safe vehicles operators and drivers operate within our towns & cities. This ensures the safest environments for our communities. These audit standards sit alongside commercial modules for contracts relating to TfL, HS2, LPT2, Concrete operations and the Guild of British Coach Operators to name but a few. 

Phil’s role within Earned Recognition is to develop the scheme and engage with the ER members. Also, Phil engages with industry to understand the development and take up of new technologies, that are in line with the ER ethos of safety & compliance. Aswell as informing industry about the Road to Earned Recognition programme, aimed at new operators and helping them get it right from day one.

DVSA earned recognition: join the scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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Booking for Non Members - £5.00 inc. VAT
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Competencies:

• FM2.1 Mechanisms for Controlling Freight Operations

When: 23 May 2024, 18:00 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Joe Kelly of the Velorail team.

Across much of Europe from France to Norway, disused railways have been converted to velorails where customers can pedal their way in rail-mounted vehicles to enjoy the passing countryside. This had never happened in Britain or Ireland until the Mayo community of Kiltimagh took the initiative. Their railway which once liked Claremorris with Sligo had been closed to passengers in 1963 and to all traffic in 1975, but unusually the mothballed rails remained intact, and in the face of opposition from people who wanted them lifted to make way for a conventional trail or road the promoters were able to gain permission from Irish Rail to use the section of track stretching 9 km either side of Kiltimagh. Much work had to be done in clearing and repairing the track, perfecting the road crossings and the station area. Funding was from public funds from the Department of Rural and Community Development through Mayo County Council and through the LEADER programme via Mayo LAG and South West Mayo Development Company CLG matched with support from project partners Mayo County Council and IRD Kiltimagh CLG. The velorail opened in June 2023 with 4 and 5-seater vehicles, and offers an experience unique in these islands which promotes active travel while preserving the integrity of the route.

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Competencies:

• TP1.1 Transport Infrastructure and Network Resilience
• TP2.1 Policy Planning for Transport
• TP2.2 Transport and Spatial Planning