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2015 – March – Yum amd Mahmood – Practical application of semiformal RAM methodology

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Date presented: December 27th, 2015

Kai Yum BEng, BSc, GradDipSig&Comms DEDJTR Tariq Mahmood  BSc (Hons), MEng  Advisian This paper provides a review of the Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Engineering program carried out by the Rail Systems Alliance on the Regional Rail Link Project. It provides an overview of the approach adopted by the Alliance with close partnership with the ARO (V/Line). It presents two practical examples of the application of a semi-formal approach. The paper also discusses the integration of RAM outputs into V/Line’s Asset Management Systems. The paper analyses some practical experiences and lessons learnt.

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2002 – November – Strachan – New Trains for Melbourne – The Customer’s Perspective

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Date presented: December 27th, 2015

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2009 – July – Mclean – Insights into Project Delivery Innovation as applied to the MetWest Alliance Project

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Date presented: December 27th, 2015

Stuart Mclean Bachelor Electronic Engineering, Hons (RMIT) United Group Infrastructure Ltd The MetWest Alliance project involved the upgrade of the signalling, track and station infrastructure at No 1 Yard, Southern Cross Station. The Alliance delivered the project on time even though the schedule was compressed, within budget and with minimal disruption to train services while working in a high risk environment at one of Melbourne busiest live rail yards. This paper aims to provide an overview of how an alliance works, the challenges faced at MetWest and to share insights on how delivery innovations were achieved which made the project successful.

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1995 – Nov – Wardrop – Train Performance & Train Modelling as an Aide to Signal Design

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Date presented: December 27th, 2015

Alex Wardrop TMG International Pty Ltd  

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2012 – March – Szacsvay and Moore – Broken Rails and the Survival of the Track Circuit

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Date presented: December 27th, 2015

Paul Szacsvay FIRSE Principal Engineer Signalling R & D RailCorp NSW Trevor Moore FIRSE Signalling Standards Engineer Australian Rail Track Corp Track circuits have always been identified as a means of broken rail detection, and will continue to be needed to serve this function even when their train detection functions can be replaced by communications based location methods or non-contact train detection. The effectiveness of track circuits in detection of broken rails has been the subject of some considerable discussion amongst signalling and track engineers. This paper looks at both sides of this discussion. We hope to provide you with an insight into what risk reduction track circuits can provide and whether this can largely be substituted by improved forms of rail husbandry.

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1998 – March – Duffy, Donald & Huth – Partnering in Practice

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Date presented: December 27th, 2015

Mike Duffy MIRSE Queensland RailMike Donald MIRSE Westinghouse Signals AustraliaPaul Huth AMIRSE Queensland Rail This paper reviews the key elements, processes, problems and opportunities which face both the client and supplier as they move from the more traditional but adversarial contract only arrangement to a more open non adversarial arrangement facilitated by Partnering.

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2006 – March – Robinson – Common Law Safety Cases

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Date presented: December 27th, 2015

Richard M Robinson, BE BA FIEAust MSFPE Director, R2A Pty Ltd statutory, regulatory and common law obligations have been met. It is primarily a demonstration that all sensible practicable precautions are in place. This means that target risk levels are not strictly relevant. Legally at least, if a business or activity is prohibitively 'dangerous' then it must be stopped. Otherwise the common law principle, the balance of the significance of the risk versus the effort required to reduce it, applies. As such, 'risk' is only invoked to test the value of the possible precautions, rather than the significance of the 'hazard'

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2006 – July – Warhurst & Keys – Epping – Chatswood Rail Link – Radio System

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Date presented: December 27th, 2015

Peter WarhurstJohn Keys United Group Infrastructure The aim of this paper is to highlight the unique aspects of the design and engineering required to implement radio communications within the Epping-Chatswood Rail Link. The project was unique in that the tunnel sections were much longer than other tunnel projects in Australia and therefore presented some challenging problems for the design. Although our scope includes the provision of radio coverage for both UHF and mobile telephones, the challenges for UHF (train radio and emergency services) were the greatest and so this paper will focus on that aspect. To meet the radio MTTR specification, it was necessary to locate repeaters in the station and service buildings (rather than the normal tunnel cross-passages), which necessitated some extremely long tunnel sections to be served by certain repeaters. The maximum tunnel section span of 3750 metres required the design of specially engineered radio repeaters and customised leaky feeder cables. The paper describes the processes followed to evolve the UHF radio design and specifications for the radio repeaters and leaky feeders, highlighting the limitations of each of the technologies involved.

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1986 – March – Londregan – Electrification of the Illawarra Railway

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Date presented: December 27th, 2015

James Londregan This Project was conceived during the latter part of 1982, and a consortium comprising Gutheridge, Haskins, Davey combined with the Transmark to manage and prepare Specification for all stages of the Project encompassing the three Engineering Branches.  

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2005 – March – Corrie – Presidential Address

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Date presented: December 27th, 2015

D CORRIE CEng FlEE FlRSE First Presented at the IEE, Savoy Place, London Look ahead some 25 years: what do you think railways will be like? Recently, many railways have been carrying their largest amount of traffic ever, yet they still have a falling market share, and this shows that society still requires transport to support its economic activities. Much transport depends on oil, a diminishing resource. Rail transport can provide fuel efficiency on trunk routes and electrified railways are less dependent on oil fuel. It is my opinion that railways have much to offer to society in the coming decades. The degree to which railways will achieve such support of society's economic activity depends on two things: an ability to attract investment and an ability to deliver a valued service. For both of these to be achieved railways must improve, both their performance and their image. This improvement depends greatly on control and communication.  

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