Institution of Railway Signal Engineers, Australasian Section
IRSE provides professional development, resources and events for railway signal engineers working in Australasia.
IRSE Australasian Section
Protecting the safety of all those who travel and work on railway systems in Australasia.
The IRSE is the professional institution for all those engaged in or associated with railway signalling and telecommunications, train control, traffic management and allied professions.
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Upcoming events
Queensland – Meet the IRSE Global President
The IRSE President Bogdan Godziejewski FIRSE is visiting Brisbane on the 7th April. Bogdan is keen to meet local IRSE members. The Queensland committee has arranged for a morning tea to make this possible. This is a great opportunity to meet the global President and put forward your views on where the IRSE should be…
Queensland Local Technical Meeting
Successes and challenges in the implementation of ETCS in Europe Discover the status of ETCS deployment across Europe. This presentation analyses the underlying causes of the varied progress, and benchmarks different European implementations—both trackside and onboard—examining their present status and the plans for the coming years. As part of the wider digital transformation of the…
Australasian Technical Meeting and AGM
The 2026 IRSE Australasian Technical Meeting and AGM will be held in Sydney on 10th to 12th April. More details are available here. Theme Legacy to Digital: the Signalling Transformation The Legacy to Digital: the Signalling Transformation theme is aimed at both current developments in our industry whilst also acknowledging the fundamentals of signalling and…
The most recent event
The IRSE, in collaboration with the RTSA (Railway Technical Society of Australasia, New Zealand Chapter), invites you to their event featuring a presentation by Vinoth Rajamani on his engineering journey, followed by IRSE President Bogdan Godziejewski’s insights into Europe’s ETCS challenges.
Registration and more event information is available on the Engineering New Zealand Te Ao Rangahau website.