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 December 2019 newsletter

Section Programme

Wednesday 21st August 2019 - Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway

Family friendly technical visit to the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway Please click here for full information

Wednesday 28th August 2019 - Barmouth Viaduct

Family friendly technical visit to the Barmouth Viaduct Please click here for full information  

Monday 9th September 2019 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patricks House, Cardiff

Conwy fix it? Yes we can! (Alex Hinshelwood, Mitchell Pether & Andrew John, Network Rail, Wales Route)

Monday 14th October 2019 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patricks House, Cardiff

Intersection Bridge Cardiff East (Phil Holbourn, Holbourn Engineering Ltd & Network Rail)

Monday 11th November 2019 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patricks House, Cardiff

Managing the Wheel Rail Interface on London Underground (Andy Vickerstaff, Senior Wheel Rail Interface Engineer, TfL)

Monday 9th December 2019 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patricks House, Cardiff

Filton Bank Four Tracking Project (John Hilliard, Associate Director, Engineering Integration Ltd)

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

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

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

Cardiff Intersection Bridge: Part 2 (Phil Holbourn, Holbourn Engineering Ltd & Network Rail)

Monday 6th April 2020 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patricks House, Cardiff 

Train-Track Recording (Kevin Hope, Network Rail)

Monday 11th May 2020 - Network Rail's Offices, St. Patricks House, Cardiff

Tram Train (Tim Kendell)