Description

Internationally renown specialist, Professor Bridget Eickhoff, explains the mechanisms of derailment in an entertaining and informative manner. Bridget will describe a range of derailment mechanisms, with their contributory factors, taking real examples from RAIB reports. She will suggest how engineers, in various roles across the industry, can help to reduce the risk of derailment and identify possible warning signs to look out for.

Joint event with PWI. 

17.15 Tea/coffee 
17.45 Lecture commences

Access to Network Rail offices, Apex House

Access to Apex House is via the footbridge spanning North Street, reached from Reading station ticket office concourse just to the east of the M&S foodstore. Walk over the footbridge, enter Apex House and go to the main reception desk. Inform the receptionist that you are attending the PWI meeting in the Network Rail office. You will be directed to the corridor to the right of the desk. The entrance to the Network Rail office is on the left hand side at the end of this corridor.

A PWI section committee member will be in the Network Rail entrance lobby to give you access and sign you in, following which you will be directed to the meeting room and other facilities, which will include the usual refreshments. In the event that you are delayed arriving for the meeting beyond 18.15 when the main reception closes you will need to contact Jeremy Smith on 07721 755 745 from outside the building to gain access. Access after 18.15 will only be available from the entrance on Forbury Road.

Egress from the building after 18.15 will only be available via the entrance on Forbury Road.

PWI note that they are again very fortunate to be offered these facilities by Network Rail, please continue to respect the working environment in the office and the building in general as we have in the past. We are trusted and we must maintain that trust.