Awards at the PWI North West Technical Seminar

Congratulations to all of our award winners at the PWI North West Technical Seminar on 1st March 2018

JOURNAL AWARDS

PRESIDENT’S JOURNAL AWARD

Jeremy Benson and Christopher Hardwick

‘Switch protection using the top of rail friction modifier system’

GOLD JOURNAL AWARD

Peter Musgrave and Mohamed Wehbi ‘Optimisation of track stiffness on the UK railways’

SILVER JOURNAL AWARD

Constantin Ciobanu and Levente Nogy

‘Rail thermal force calculations for jointed track - Article 3’

ARTHUR MABER AWARD

Callum Sanderson and Tak-Ming Pang

‘The challenge of level platform access: A best practice approach’ 

YOUNG ACHIEVER AWARDS

FIRST PLACE - Gregory Strong

‘Check Rail Application Rules on London Underground’

SECOND PLACE - James Carne

‘The VIPRE - Risk Based Inspections on London Underground’

THIRD PLACE - Matthew Brimble

‘Single Span Strengthening of a listed masonry arch railway viaduct: COL 120A Castlefield Viaduct, Manchester’

HIGHLY COMMENDED - Sebastian Smith and Joseph Joyce

PWI DIPLOMA IN PERMANENT WAY ENGINEERING

Matthew Smith

Frances Rogalski 

Kate Wilkinson

Sarah Lowthorpe (Technical Director’s award for Best in Class 2017)

Anthony Swainston

Petra Hunt

Jamie Edwards 

Taylor Edgell

Dave McPherson

Paul Carrington