Network Rail Track Maintenance Engineering Conference

摘要

This online conference, organised by the Permanent Way Institution on behalf of Network Rail (NR), was introduced by Ian Coleman, Principal Engineer, Track Switches and Crossings, NR. Traditionally this conference has been run annually specifically for Network Rail's Track Maintenance Engineers. This year, running it online made it possible to open the conference up to the whole maintenance community and beyond. After welcoming everyone, Ian introduced the first speaker: Gareth commenced with a welcome to the first virtual NR/PWI Track Maintenance Conference. He spoke of the unprecedented times in which we find ourselves, mentioning the pandemic and recent fatalities. Some of the incidents that led to the latter involved passengers, some colleagues, but all were tragic.