Section Details

Chair: Andy Franklin, mob: 07824 410762

Secretary: Andrew Wilson, Waunglyncath, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, SA18 2UP

mob: 07974 809639, e-mail: southandwestwales@thepwi.org

Meeting Venues

Network Rail's Offices, St. Patrick's House, Curran Road, off Penarth Road, Cardiff, CF10 5ZA at 17:15. 

Meetings will be held on the second Monday of each month unless otherwise stated.

Please follow link to events calendar for details of section meetings

Please click here to download the July 2020 newsletter

Section Programme  

Monday 13th January 2020 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patricks House, Cardiff

High Output Track Renewals: Ready for CP6 ( Ben Brooks, Doug Swinney & Dave Deeley, Network Rail)

Monday 10th February 2020 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patricks House, Cardiff

Getting the Railway off the Ground: the Liverpool Overhead Railway (Colin Brading) 

Monday 9th March 2020 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patricks House, Cardiff

Acton Diveunder; Slab track and yard remodelling (Phil Holbourn, Holbourn Engineering Ltd & Network Rail) 

Tuesday 28th April 2020 - Online Meeting

Wear and derailment risk at facing switches (Andy Franklin, Principal Project Engineer, (Track & Lineside), Network Rail)

Monday 13th July 2020 - Online Meeting

Heat Straightening of Impact Damaged Structures (Speaker from Engineering Integration Ltd) 

Monday 14th September 2020 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patrick's House, Cardiff

Gauging RILA: Rail Infrastructure Alignment Acquisition (Craig Havard, Senior Route Gauging Engineer, Network Rail Wales Route)

Monday 12th October 2020 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patrick's House, Cardiff

Infrastructure Asset Transfer for South Wales Metro (Colin Brading, Transport for Wales)

Wednesday 4th November 2020 - Swindon Steam Museum

PWI Plant Technical Seminar - Plant and machinery to support rail infrastructure renewal and maintenance for the 2020s and beyond. Booking now open!