Technical Meeting Papers

Technical Meetings are held three times per year.
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202111 – Clendon – Wellington Railway Station Throat and Approaches – Collision Risk Assessment and Mitigations

By: James Clendon
Date Presented: November 12th, 2021


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202111 – Mills – KiwiRail Network Control Strategies

By: Carl Mills
Date Presented: November 12th, 2021


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202111 – Cook – The Level Crossing Safety Impact Assessment (LCSIA)

By: Eddie Cook
Date Presented: November 12th, 2021


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202503 – Afshar – CBTC Signalling System & Emerging Technologies; AI, Machine Learning & Crowd Computing for Adaptive Real-Time Train Timetables

By: Parisa Afshar
Date Presented: March 21st, 2025


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202503 – Li – Competency Management in the Australian Railway Signalling Industry

By: Daniel Li
Date Presented: March 21st, 2025


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202503 – Moore – Signal Design Report: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?

By: Trevor Moore
Date Presented: March 21st, 2025


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202503 – Sudholz – Break of Gauge: Competencies in the Australian Signalling Project Environment

By: Thomas Sudholz
Date Presented: March 21st, 2025


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202503 – Turner – Growing Graduates in the Sun: 30 Years of Signalling Graduate Development in Queensland Rail

By: Blake Turner
Date Presented: March 21st, 2025


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202503 – Villegas – The Importance of Operation and Maintenance Concepts in the Delivery and Operation of Rail Networks

By: Selena Villegas
Date Presented: March 21st, 2025


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200407 – Modernisation of KTMB’s Signalling & Telecommunication Systems

Date Presented: July 19th, 2004


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1978 – March – Birrell – Description of Larse Supervisory System

Author(s):

W Birrell Associate IRSE Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co The Style MCL-1 Larst equipment supplied to ANRC Tasmanian Region, is a Time Division Multiplex data transmission system configured to transmit and receive the status of controls and indications between Launceston Control Centre and Outstations located at Coldwater Creek, East Tamar Junction and Relbia. The equipment is designed aroud Larse Data Communicator Modules which were introduced into Australia during 1972.  Larse Data Communicators make extensive use of Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) techniques and introduces large scale integration into the Remote Control and Superviory field.

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1981 – July – Cumming – Staff Training – Vicrail

Author(s):

R.G. Cumming FIRSE Brisbae Queensland Recruitment into the tradesman level is generally by apprenticeship. Retirement and resignation losses are covered by planned replacement through apprenticeship and only extraordinary losses are filled by recruitmen from outside industry. The fact that both recruitment methods are use in use necessitates training procedures to cover each requirement, and as this area is to be the topic of my detail presentation, I will not expand on it at this time.

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1947 – Nov – Inauguration

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Article from the Journal of the Institute of Transport

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1983 – Nov – Ford Pollock – Computer Aided Design

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