01.05.13
Huge buzz at day two of Railtex 2013
Visitors poured through the doors for the second day of Railtex at Earls Court today.
Network Rail chairman Richard Parry-Jones started the day off with a talk on innovation and transformation, urging railway businesses to stop coming up with “excuses” about why things can’t be done – but instead just do it. His main message was the urgent need to improve asset reliability, saying it is too complacent to just accept things like point failures as a fact of life considering the huge effect they have on passengers and satisfaction with the railway.
Comparing the situation to other transport industries, such as aviation and the automotive sector, he said engineers are perfectly capable of building systems and parts that never fail.
Many of the day’s seminars and talks have been packed out with eager audiences, including Telent on remote condition monitoring, Network Rail’s head of energy Peter Dearman on the ramping up of electrification projects, and Siemens on the way collaboration can transform services and technologies to everyone’s advantage.
A number of product launches were announced, which will be covered in detail in the next edition of Rail Technology Magazine.
Tonight sees the Railtex Awards, a major celebration of achievement and innovation by the companies exhibiting at this year’s show. RTM is the headline sponsor for the event, which promises to build on the success of last year’s Infrarail Awards.
RTM is exhibiting at Railtex 2013 at stand B41, and will also be live-tweeting from the event – follow us @RTMnews and keep an eye on the #Railtex hashtag.
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