202503 – Afshar – CBTC Signalling System & Emerging Technologies
Author(s): Parisa Afshar
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200707 – Webb – Optical Fibre for Freight Railways: Or How A Radio Communications Engineer Saw the Light
By: John Webb
Date Presented: July 30th, 2007
John Webb BE (Elec), MIEAustCOMMSIGTelecommunications c
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200707 – Eyre – Signalling of the Southern Suburbs Railway
By: Paul Eyre
Date Presented: July 30th, 2007
Paul Eyre Project ManagerAnsaldo STS / Union Switch & S
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200703 – Wardrop & Caldwell – Application of Problem Space Search to Heavy Haul Scheduling and Infrastructure Planning
By: Alex Wardrop
Date Presented: July 30th, 2007
Alex Wardrop BSc (Hons) MEngSciDavid Caldwell BEng (Hon
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200707 – McCluskey – WestNet Rail – Building Resilience and Redundancy Into a Centralised Train Control System
By: Phil McCluskey
Date Presented: July 30th, 2007
Phil McCluskey B App Sc (Eng)Project Manager Train Cont
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200707 – Weerakody – Innovative Project Delivery Solutions
By: Don Weerakody
Date Presented: July 30th, 2007
Don Weerakody MIRSE, MIEAust, MIETPublic Transport Auth
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200703 – Godber – Fundamentals of Signalling a Heavy Haul Railway
By: Anthony Godber
Date Presented: March 29th, 2007
Anthony Godber BSc(Eng), CEng, MIET, MIRSEPilbara IronS
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200703 – Gifford, Moore & Borg – Axle Counters For Heavy Rail Traffic Applications
By: John Gifford, Trevor Moore & Joe Borg
Date Presented: March 23rd, 2007
John Gifford, Trevor Moore & Joe BorgTrack Circuits
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200703 – Bolster – QR Network Access Master Planning
By: Patrick Bolster
Date Presented: March 14th, 2007
Patrick Bolster BA ACA (ICAEW)QR Network AccessUntil 20
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200703 – Page – Windah-Grantleigh – Coal Line Capacity Improvements
By: Charles Page
Date Presented: March 1st, 2007
Charles Page BSc. Elec/Electron, MBA, FIRSEDirector of
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200703 – Baayens – Asset Protection for Heavy Haul Railway
By: A Baayens
Date Presented: January 22nd, 2007
Written by A.Baayens Technical OfficerUnion Switch & Si
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202503 – Li – Competency Management in the Australian Railway Signalling Industry
Author(s): Danie Li
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202503 – Moore – Signal Design Report: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?
Author(s): Trevor Moore
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202503 – Sudholz – Break of Gauge: Competencies in the Australian Signalling Project Environment
Author(s): Thomas Sudholz
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202503 – Turner – Growing Graduates in the Sun: 30 Years of Signalling Graduate Development in Queensland Rail
Author(s): Blake Turner
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202503 – Villegas – The Importance of Operation and Maintenance Concepts in the Delivery and Operation of Rail Networks
Author(s): Selena Villegas
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2004 – July – Modernisation of KTMB’s Signalling & Telecommunication Systems
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The total route length of KTMB’s network amounts to approximately 1670 km and is mainly single track except for about 150 km of electrified double track sections around the capital city, Kuala Lumpur, for commuter services.
2001 – March – Garrett – Brisbane Airport Rail Link Project – Overview
Author(s): Mike Garrett
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Mike Garrett Airtrain Citylink is a Queensland company formed specifically to undertake the development and operation of a rail link between Brisbane Airport and the city of Brisbane on a build, own, operate, transfer (BOOT) basis. See attached Figure 1. Airtrain's shareholders are Colonial Group Staff Superannuation Scheme, Airtrain Trust (4 superannuation funds), Hyder Investments, GIO Australia, CDC Projects, Transfield & 26 smaller investers.
2001 – July – Stepniewski – Blacktown’s VDU Signalling Control System “Sigview”
Author(s): Richard Stepniewski
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Richard Stepniewski Alstom's VDU Control System, called SigView, was successfully commissioned at Blacktown, in two stages as part of the Blacktown Resignalling Project: - Stage 1: control of Blacktown and Quakers Hill in December 1999. - Stage 2: control of Richmond Line and Quakers Hill in March 2000.
2000 – March – Furness & Clarke – Maintaining for Reliability
Author(s): John Furness & John Clarke
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John Furness & John Clarke ABB Engineering Construction are responsible for maintaining various components of the Victorian Rail system on behalf of the newly franchised businesses. The transition from publicly owned railway authority to private industry, specialist maintenance provider has required considerable change at both the organisational and individual staff levels. The process has also uncovered a number of deficiencies in the pre-existing maintenance structure and practices that do not meet the needs and performance requirements of the new Operators. ABB are currently developing and planning for new procedures and practices, etc ,where necessary, to meet our client's expectations for continuos improvements in the overall railway system reliability to achieve and exceed the new performance benchmarks