Practice session with Mike Muldoon

RAIL’s much anticipated new webinar series will began in February with a focus on the key changes that need to be made to ensure the railway’s success in the next two, 10, and 30 years. The relevant outcomes and action points from the three webinars will be delivered to Rail Minister Huw Merriman as part of an associated supplement in RAIL 982.

The three-part series follows on from RAIL’s successful Creating a Simpler, Better Railway webinar series late last year, for which more than 1,500 people registered.

Making it happen: How rail needs to evolve in the next two, 10, and 30 years reflects the different time horizons of the workstreams within the Government’s rail reform package and the ongoing work of the Great British Railways Transition Team to implement it. As such, senior members of the GBRTT and other industry leaders will once again join RAIL’s Managing Editor Nigel Harris on the virtual sofa.

The second webinar will focus on the next decade across CP7 and beyond as the industry continues to make strides towards reaching key cost efficiency targets, creating a more accessible railway and building a diverse workforce. With two out of every three disabled passengers reporting at least one problem when travelling by rail, improving accessibility is one is one of the biggest opportunities for GBR. But what does this look like in practice, how can this be achieved cost effectively and where best to start? Meanwhile, rail is not reaping the benefits of having a diverse workforce and is compounding a considerable skills shortage if it cannot attract candidates from different backgrounds. How do GBR and other key industry players plan to address this?

And what can we start implementing now that will make this transition to a more inclusive railway possible?

Speakers include:
Mike Muldoon, Business Development Director, SYSTRA
Steven Maslin, Technical Authority for Inclusive Design, Atkins
Caroline Stickland, CEO, Transport for All
Russell Jackson, Global Transit Director, AECOM
Alison Smith, Head of Accessibility and Inclusion, GBRTT