19-20 June 2024
Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre
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For a full timetable of what's happening inside the Network Rail Village, check out the events programme:
Sentinel is one of the rail industry's core safety systems, allowing users to check authority to work before going trackside. The Sentinel team are excited to be at Rail Live to meet our customers and users, answer any questions you have and to show off Sentinel’s digital makeover, the biggest enhancement to the system in 10 years! Drop by and take a look at the new user interface and find out how you can request and download your own virtual Sentinel card.
We believe that excellent training and development is the essential glue that enables Network Rail to put passengers and freight users first.
Rail Live enables us to showcase the latest skills, leadership and professional development training on offer.
Pop by and learn more about the programmes we’re supporting in partnership with routes, regions and the wider industry, and the insights we’re creating to fuel how we think about learning now and in future control periods.
The team are a focal point for research, development and innovation. At Rail Live they will be exhibiting a variety of innovative items including: the Felix Laser Robot, a high performance switch system (HPSS) points operating equipment demonstrator and a variety of smaller displays encompassing their current projects.
Intelligent Infrastructure is a digital transformation programme – helping Network Rail to improve asset management and to provide the basis for a ‘predict and prevent’ maintenance strategy - using apps and tools to take raw data and transform it into intelligence, to support effective decision making.
Visit us in the Network Rail village see what our tools can do, here’s a selection of demos on offer:
By the end of April 2024, we’ll have delivered 20 new apps and tools, helping colleagues to make the right decisions at the right time to provide improved services for passengers and our freight customers.
The team from Commercial and Procurement will be on hand to meet and speak with current and potential suppliers. So please come along with your queries and enquiries and find out more about what the team can do to help you.
SPEED is forging a path for the industry to adapt and meet these challenges head on. It will empower all of us in rail to be revolutionary in our thinking - to challenge how we do things and ask; how could we do this better? Meet representatives to discover more about progress to date and expected in future.
Come see the latest innovations to road fleet at Network Rail, where there will be a range of electric vehicles on display, as well as vehicle technologies such as telematics and the first use vehicle check app.
As Network Rail gears up to the transition, we’ll be reducing emissions and improving local air quality. This will be an opportunity to ask any questions about how fleet will develop over the coming years and how they’re currently being trialled across the network.
The track work and equipment demonstration taking place on the tracks next to the Network Rail Village will include this viewing platform, providing a clear view of what’s taking place. Platform kindly provided by Headline Sponsor, Dura Composites.
Showing content about the track demonstration, highlights of what’s taking place and providing an overview of what’s to see from Network Rail and where to find it at Rail Live 2023.
The W&W Safety Campaign Vehicle is a flexible communications vehicle which has can be used to act as a focal point for engaging people, one to one or in groups through use of its internal and external video screens, audio speakers or a human speaker. It has internal and external seating to enable a more comfortable engagement session. And it's got all the creature comforts of seats and a kettle!
Exciting opportunity to come and see ‘Spot’ the Boston Dynamics Dog, developed in collaboration with Wolverhampton University. Spot is a dynamic sensing solution designed for unstructured and human-purposed environments.
This follows on from last year's working at height collaboration with PASMA and Taziker (10 video's) - how to work at height safely. Prevention from falls is a well-known and controlled process. However, what is often overlooked is - if someone is working at height and there's an incident, how to get them back to earth safely.
Located next to a hill, the ALO machine will set up various virtual walls and demonstrating its slewing capabilities.
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Rail Live was once again the premier railway exhibition to attend. Rolling stock, plant, people, techniques – always a showstopper! Rail Live is consistently the best opportunity for everyone in the railway family to widen their networks, knowledge and understanding of the rail industry.
Rail Live is a truly notable event for all people with a professional rail interest, not only those involved with rail plant and track working. Having RAIL take over the organisation and promotion of the show has made it possible for Rail Live to become a ‘Farnborough for the Railway’, and an event that is now well and truly in the international rail calendar.
Some impressive tech on display at the @RAIL #RailLive2023 today - including digital temporary speed restriction signs, composite platforms from and even a @BostonDynamics robot dog! (I have no idea whether the @BTPDogs met robodog...).
I would encourage you to get around and talk to as many people as you can, because in my visit I genuinely have spoken to people I would never have seen before. That’s one of the joys of this dynamic, and it’s why I’m a real passionate supporter of Rail Live.
Rail Live is an unmissable event for SMEs like us to connect with passionate industry leaders and suppliers. The event has become a staple in our calendar, and is a fantastic opportunity to incept exciting project collaborations and partnerships. We're highly anticipating this year's event, and look forward to taking in the diverse breadth of rail expertise on offer!
Rail Live is a key event for Thomas Graham as an industrial supplier, it is a great opportunity to exhibit our range of products to the rail industry, speak to key contacts, that under normal conditions wouldn’t be accessible and we have been able to exhibit our specialised calibrated lockers, which have been a great success with some sizeable orders.
Rail Live 2023 was Trough-Tec System’s and HIRD Group’s best Rail Live yet! It’s the only show where we can truly showcase and demonstrate our entire product portfolio in such a practical manner, and to such a diverse audience of customers and end-users.