Registration and refreshments
08:45 to
09:30
Welcome from Addleshaw Goddard
09:30 to
09:35
Speaker:
Martin Fleetwood.
Transport Consultant.
Addleshaw Goddard.
Chair’s welcome and opening remarks
09:35 to
09:40
Speaker:
Dr Stuart Hillmansen.
Professor of Railway Traction Systems.
University of Birmingham.
Part 1: Vision, plans and timelines to deliver rail decarbonisation
09:40 to
11:15
Government policy towards rail decarbonisation
09:40 to
10:05
Speaker:
Jennifer Elevique.
Deputy Director, Rail Environment and Digital.
Department for Transport.
Delivering a more sustainable and greener railway – Great British Railways' plan for supporting decarbonisation
10:05 to
10:30
- Plans and progress with the traction decarbonisation plan
- Rolling stock needed to deliver decarbonisation
Speaker:
Rich Fisher.
Head of Strategic Planning – Network and Integration.
Great British Railways Transition Team.
Panel Discussion: Delivering a joint vision to achieve rail decarbonisation – aligning separate decarbonisation actions for a whole sector approach
10:30 to
11:15
- Cost effective approaches to electrification - identifying where electrification will take place and be implemented in the most effective way
- Confidence for where investment should be placed – infrastructure plans and rolling stock needed
- What support is needed to deliver and incentivise rail decarbonisation?
- Ensuring rail remains sustainable and competitive with other transport options
- Collaborating as a sector to deliver decarbonisation
Speakers:
Richard Mann.
Rail Strategy Lead.
Midlands Connect.
Andrew Gainsbury.
Rolling Stock Strategy Manager.
Transport for Wales.
Steven Hart.
Associate Director.
WSP.
Morning refreshments
11:15 to
11:45
Part 2: Delivering traction decarbonisation – what is needed to meet 2040 targets?
11:45 to
14:25
Increasing the use of batteries – where are they in operation and how can they be best used?
11:45 to
12:05
- The use of traction batteries in railway applications
- Battery range and recent developments of BEMU’s
- Disadvantages of electrification and limitations with battery applications
- Risks associated with battery rail systems (Track/Train/Operations)
- Opportunities with fast static charging
Speaker:
Mark Lowther.
Principal Rolling Stock Engineer.
Mott MacDonald.
Panel discussion: If not electrification, what? Where is the industry with realistic alternative traction technologies?
12:05 to
13:00
- Alternative fuels – realistic options, distance they can cover, and testing
- Is hydrogen still a strong option for rail? Progress with hydrogen
- What could be the industry disruptors and innovators?
- Infrastructure needed to support these technologies
Speakers:
Ross Shepherd.
Chief Technical Officer.
Beacon Rail.
Jonathan Prince.
Placement Engineer (Fast Charge Battery Train Trial).
Great Western Railway.
Callum Nicolson.
Project Engineer.
Vanguard Sustainable Transport Solutions.
James Alton.
Senior Consultant, Rolling Stock.
Arup.
Networking lunch
13:00 to
14:00
Part 3: Non traction decarbonisation – how to reduce whole life carbon and create a greener supply chain
14:00 to
16:50
Reducing embodied carbon – building in as green a way as possible
14:00 to
14:30
- Low carbon infrastructure and how to reduce carbon when building rail infrastructure
- Materials that can be used
Speaker:
Mark Fenton.
Carbon Manager.
HS2.
Panel discussion: The decarbonisation skills challenge – competing with “green” industries while retaining longer term diesel engineering knowledge
14:30 to
15:10
- Retaining specialist knowledge for bimodal and trimodal fleets where diesel will still be used
- Remaining competitive and retaining skills for technologies that other industries are leaving behind
- Training and skills needed for new traction technologies
Speakers:
Neil Robertson.
Chief Executive.
NSAR.
Rob Forde.
Director of Strategy and Skills.
Global Centre of Rail Excellence.
Chair’s closing remarks
15:10 to
15:15
Close of conference and networking drinks
15:15 to
16:00