Take your seat at a Rail Partners Conference

A Conference hosted by Rail Partners at RSN 2023 will feature industry leading speakers from East Midlands Railway, Eversholt, Rail Forum, The Department for Transport, Transport Focus, First Rail, GBRTT, Hitachi Rail, GB Railfreight and will be compered by Mark Gaynor of Rail Partners.

The conference draws upon Rail Partners position as a specialist trade organisation with an international representation portfolio comprising of many operator groups and freight companies. The conference will examine key topics on delivering for customers and delivering for the environment in a series of poignant presentations from the contributing rail industry speakers.

Rail Partners will provide a fresh and exciting perspective to the RSN event.

The conference will provide superb content for those looking toward the passenger and freight markets and the challenges that the railway faces, both operationally and environmentally.

Following an introduction by Andy Bagnall the chief executive of Rail Partners, the morning session will examine how the railway can deliver for its customers. In the first presentation, the East Midlands Railway MD, Will Rogers, will look at the introduction of new rolling stock and the challenges and opportunities this brings to satisfy the key objective of improving the passenger / customer experience.

Shakil Ismail, Head of Fleet at Eversholt Rail Group will then take the stage to detail from a RoSCo perspective the plans to enhance the customer experience, balancing expectation with affordability to provide the most beneficial solutions.

The morning speakers will be joined by Elaine Clark of Rail Forum, Jag Maitala of the Department for Transport and Dan Taylor of Transport Focus to discuss the realities of a cost constrained world whilst balancing the needs and expectation of customers.

The afternoon session will focus on the challenges faced in delivering for the environment and decarbonising the railway.

Simply turn up to hear from the speakers, registering to attend RSN is all you need to access this promising event.

First Rail is an operator group operating three major UK TOC’s including Avanti West Coast, Great Western Railway (GWR), South Western Railway (SWR) and two open access passenger rail services, Hull Trains and Lumo. Their speaker, Ben Woods, Director of Engineering Business Development, will provide the first presentation in the afternoon session, which will expand upon the importance of decarbonising rail from an owning group perspective.

Change driven by decarbonisation has its consequences for strategic planning of rolling stock, the depots in which they are maintained and upon the programme for electrification. Rich Fisher Head of Strategic PlanningNetwork and Integration at GBRTT will explain the outlook and the impact of decarbonisation policy on the wider railway, reflecting on the unique challenges that such a complex transportation system faces.

The afternoon panel session will see Lorna McDonald of Hitachi Rail and Robert Tiller of GB Railfreight join theafternoon speakers, to provide analysis and objective consideration to the pace at which decarbonisation can be progressed in an effective, but affordable, manner.

We expect significant audience participation in the panel sessions as the topics all have impact on the many organisations that together deliver the operational railway.

Attendance to this high-quality event is open to all entirely free of charge.

Providing delegates with a unique opportunity to hear from industry leaders and to be involved at the Rail Partners Conference at RSN 2023.... the only real question is can you afford not to be there?