Section Details
Chair: Peter Veryard
Vice Chair: Les Fox
Secretary: Lynne Garner
Mob: 07494 753652, e-mail: cheshire@thepwi.org
Meeting Venues
Crewe Arms Hotel, Nantwich Road, Crewe, Cheshire, CW2 6DN. Meeting from 16:15 to 17:45 with tea, coffee & biscuits.
Please follow link to events calendar for details of section meetings
Section Programme
Thursday 7 January 2021 - Online Meeting
Adverse Weather and Changes to Drainage Policy/Management - Julian Harms, Network Rail
Thursday 25 February 2021 - Online Meeting
Railway Traction Overhead Line Electrification - Peter Dearman, Dearman Engineering
Thursday March 4 2021 - Online Meeting
Earlestown S&C Renewal: Upgrading the Triangle for the 21st Century - Peter Veryard, Project Engineer, Network Rail
Thursday 1 April 2021 - Online Meeting
Geismar: A worldwide partner that you may not know about - Richard Cradock, Commercial Manager & SHEQ Co-ordinator, Geismar
Thursday 6 May 2021 - Online Meeting
Water-Trak - Solving Low Adhesion Problems in the Rail Industry? - John Cooke, Director, CoCatalyst UK
Thursday 3 June 2021 - Online Meeting
Young Professionals Talk - Lilian Ateng, Fahad Munir, Lee Ratchford & Heather Campbell
POSTPONED - new date TBA - PWI Social Event at County Hotel, 9 Botchergate, Carlisle
Annual Intersection Quiz - Teams will be taking part from Cheshire & North Wales, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lancaster Barrow & Carlisle, Manchester & Liverpool and North East sections. Date dependent on COVID restrictions being relaxed.
Thursday 2 September 2021 - Online
Design and construction of recent ballastless projects - Barnaby Temple, Rhomberg Sersa
Tuesday 5 October 2021 - Technical Seminar
PWI North West Technical Seminar - Hit the North. Booking now open!
Thursday 7 October 2021 - Crewe
Major refurbishment of Traeth Mawr Timber Trestle Viaduct - Carl Baker, CEM, AmcoGiffen
Thursday 4 November 2021 - Crewe
Track Worker Safety and PWI Presidential Visit - Nick Millington, Safety Task Force Leader, Network Rail and President, PWI
Thursday 2 December 2021 - Crewe
Peel Ports (Port of Liverpool) – Track Remodelling for Port Expansion & Sustainable Biomass - Jon Hayes, Engineering Design Manager & Les Fox, Principal PWay Engineer, Central Rail Systems Alliance (CRSA)
Thursday 6 January 2022 - Crewe/Online TBA
Details TBC
Thursday 3 February 2022 - Crewe/Online TBA
Details TBC
Thursday 3 March 2022 - Crewe/Online TBA
Details TBC
Thursday 7 April 2022 - Crewe/Online TBA
Details TBC
Thursday 5 May 2022 - Crewe/Online TBA
Details TBC
Thursday 2 June 2022 - Crewe/Online TBA
Details TBC