Section Details
Chair: Russell Kimber
Secretary: Bob Gardiner, mob: 07771 828811, e-mail: bobrail65@gmail.com
Meeting Venue
Upstairs Function Room, The Scots Guards Club, 2 Clifton Terrace, Opposite Haymarket Station, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR at 18.00.
Please follow link to events calendar for details of section meetings
Section Programme
Thursday 5th September 2019 - Scots Guards Club
High Output Track Renewals:CP6 Scottish plans (Dougy Blakeley, High Output Senior Programme Manager, Network Rail) Please note change of speaker and slightly later time of 18:30 for 19:00!
Thursday 3rd October 2019 - Scots Guards Club
Aberdeen to Inverness & Highland Main Line upgrades (Robert McCafferty, BAM Nuttall)
Thursday 7th November 2019 - Scots Guards Club
Blackford (Highland Spring) Rail Facility (Andrew Blakeley, Senior Project Engineer, Network Rail)
Friday 6th December 2019 - Bellfield Brewery, Edinburgh
Technical Visit to Bellfield Brewery, 46 Stanley Place, Edinburgh N.B. Change of venue!
Thursday 9th January 2020 - Mad Hatter Pub, 8 Torphichen Place, EH3 8DU
AGM & Annual Social Quiz hosted by Alan Morrison N.B. Change of venue!
Thursday 6th February 2020 - Scots Guards Club
High Speed Handbacks of Track Renewal Sites (John Oates, Professional Head of Track & Design, Babcock International Group)
Thursday 5th March 2020 - Scots Guards Club
Composite Components at Newark Flat Crossing (Phil Winship, Principle Engineer, Network Rail)
Thursday 2nd April 2020 - Scots Guards Club
"Mind the Gap" - Gauging (Rob Lacey, Principle Engineer, Network Rail)
Tuesday 28th April 2020 - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
PWI Scotland Technical Seminar - Electrification: delivering the business case Booking now open!
Thursday 7th May 2020 - Scots Guards Club
Kintore New Station & A2i Update (Robert McCafferty, Technical Head of Track, BAM Nuttall)
Saturday 13th June 2020 - County Hotel, 9 Botchergate, Carlisle
Annual Intersection Quiz - with teams taking part from Edinburgh, Manchester & Liverpool, Lancaster, Barrow & Carlisle, North East, Cheshire & North Wales and Glasgow Sections
Thursday 3rd September 2020 - Scots Guards Club
Photogrammetry in Rail (Colin McAteer, Programme Manager (BIM), Network Rail)
Thursday 1st October 2020 - Scots Guards Club
Details TBC
Thursday 5th November 2020 - Scots Guards Club
Far North (lines) Track Maintenance Partnership (Jamie McPherson, Project Manager, Stobart Rail)
Friday 4th December 2020 - Technical Tour
Details TBC