Operations Projects Specialist supporting The Chartered Institution of Railway Operators and Avanti West Coast
Yet another incredibly important day of joint Network Rail train planner, Route access planning and delivery alongside TOC train and possession planners training at Chinnor. These established joint planning community owned courses enable each of these teams to understand how their decisions impact on other functions, the constraints within which they work, and their organisations objectives. All part of an industry coming together to make optimised whole-system engineering and possession delivery decisions.
Lesley Sinden
2mo
Great idea, it would be great if we did something like that on the Kent and Sussex routes
Julian Ogle
2mo
An excellent initiative. Explaining processes and procedures in a classroom is all well and good but you cannot beat getting out there and seeing how's it's done 'on the ground'.
chris P.
2mo
Using heritage railways is great way to enable staff to explore scenarios which are not possible elsewhere. We are using one in Northampton for a series of courses for engineers.
Will this mean that the planners actually will go on track and get familiar with it ahead of planning or it will be done from the desk. Will these planners involve the people who work on the track and are affected by the planning!
Jonathan Cossham
2mo
Would you trust the gentleman holding the paperwork with a possession? 😂
Robbie Burgess
2mo
I’m rather tempted to submit an application for a Chinnor course one of these years Mr. P! Always good to enrich one’s learning I feel 🙂
Chris Deal
2mo
This was eye opening to all the different aspects of possession planning through to what goes on on the day, , it was great to chat to colleagues across the industry and it was fun!
Simon Hulse
2mo
I attend a similar day at the Epping and Ongar Railway back in 2014, very useful and informative day when i worked in ops planning in MK. Hope it was a productive day and great to get out and about and experience operations in person.
scott turner
2mo
Very much enjoyed this a few years ago, learnt a great deal and recommend it as mandatory for anyone working in planning!
Technician, Network Rail National Awards nominee 2021 & 2022,National Rail Awards nominee 2022. 34 years + experience on the railway, on break from H&S,helicopter & heavy engineering enthusiast, author and YouTube star
2moSomebody please tell me why I’m seeing people on (what I’m assuming) is Network Rail infrastructure, even though they’re behind a marker board who aren’t head to toe in full hi viz clothing?