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9 September 2026
Basic steel metallurgy and the effect of rail section on rail stress and defect growth
Section MeetingPresentationVideo
9 September 2026
Poplar Lines Electrification
Section MeetingVideo
3 September 2026
Adapting the Western Route’s railway infrastructure to our changing climate
Section MeetingVideo
3 September 2026
From Performance to Future Readiness: Managing the Railway as a System
Section MeetingPresentationVideo
20 August 2026
Hopetown Darlington – New track for a new home
VideoSection Meeting
31 July 2026
Computer Vision for OCS Railway Maintenance
Section MeetingPresentationVideo
23 July 2026
Why Checking Still Matters
Section MeetingVideo
22 July 2026
Managing Risk At Interfaces In Live Railway Renewals
Journal article
22 July 2026
Tru: Practical Experience Of Embodied Carbon Reduction In Ole Design
Journal article
22 July 2026
The Electrification Series: Midland Mainline Ole125 Renewals Project: Extending Legacy Overhead Infrastructure Life Span For Decades
Journal article
22 July 2026
The Remediation Of Harlesden Embankment: Management Of A Deep-Seated Rotational Failure Within A Live Railway Corridor
Journal article
22 July 2026
Gosforth Depot Remodelling: Modernising A Century-Old Maintenance Facility
Journal article
22 July 2026
July Journal 2026
Journal article
21 July 2026
RailEI Lunch & Learn: Fibre Optic Movement Sensing
PresentationVideo
16 July 2026
Shipley Depot
Section MeetingVideo
7 July 2026
RailEI Lunch & Learn: Boots off Ballast
Video
25 June 2026
RailEI Presidential Address – Yorkshire
Section MeetingVideo
25 June 2026
Metrolink OCS Reference Design
Section MeetingVideo
24 June 2026
Women in Engineering
Section MeetingVideo
11 June 2026
Why PVT is not the MVP – Challenging the Principle of Virtual Transition
Section MeetingPresentationVideo
10 June 2026
London Transport Museum Presents: Running a Heritage Railway in the Year of Rail200 and Beyond
Section MeetingVideo
3 June 2026
Reflections on Seven Decades of Permanent Way Infrastructure Engineering
Section MeetingPresentationVideo
2 June 2026
Hopetown (Darlington) Railway Heritage Quarter – New track for a new home
Section MeetingVideo
26 May 2026
Buckle Up for CRT Management – Don’t Get Caught Out
Video
21 May 2026
Climate Change Adaption Pathways
Section MeetingVideo
21 May 2026
The Greek Street Project
Section MeetingVideo
20 May 2026
Burnhouse S&C Remodelling
Section MeetingVideo
19 May 2026
A New Type of S&C Roller
Section MeetingPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
Huddersfield University – Centric & Tram-Train Best Practice Guide
SeminarPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
Tramway Vehicle / Infrastructure Interfaces
SeminarPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
Trees, Trains and Trauma
Section MeetingPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
Coventry Very Light Rail
SeminarPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
Mind the Gap… and the curve, and the spec sheet – Common cost drivers in Infrastructure & Vehicles
SeminarPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
Magna New Tram Stop
SeminarPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
Delivering Metro to Washington
SeminarPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
Our Mission to deliver a healthier & safer railway; Light Rail from the perspective of ORR
SeminarPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
UK TRAM – Light Rail at a turning point; helping turn national ambition into reality
SeminarPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
West Yorkshire Mass Transit: Making the case for transport investment in West Yorkshire
SeminarPresentationVideo
14 May 2026
Seminar: Light Rail: Making City Rail Travel More Sustainable
Seminar
13 May 2026
Influence of Water on Stability of Rail Infrastructure Earthworks
Section MeetingVideo
12 May 2026
RailEI Lunch & Learn: RailSense – Making Sense of Remote Condition Monitoring
Video
11 May 2026
George Overton: Overtaken by Steam
Section MeetingVideo
7 May 2026
Know Your Risks
SeminarPresentationVideo
7 May 2026
Learning from the Hatfield Accident
SeminarPresentationVideo
7 May 2026
Track & Off Track – Managing the Interface, Controlling the Risk
SeminarPresentationVideo
7 May 2026
The ORR and my Experience of the Carmont Derailment
SeminarPresentationVideo
7 May 2026
RailEI Routes to Professional Registration
SeminarPresentationVideo
7 May 2026
Tamper Designs
SeminarPresentationVideo
7 May 2026
Keynote Address: Nick Millington
SeminarPresentationVideo
7 May 2026
Insight in Action – From Real Use to What’s Next
SeminarPresentationVideo
7 May 2026
What Helps Good Work Happen
SeminarPresentationVideo
7 May 2026
Seminar: Network Rail’s Track Maintenance Engineering Conference 2026
Seminar
6 May 2026
Prefabricated Renewals in a Heritage Environment
Section MeetingPresentationVideo
5 May 2026
Engineering a Brighter Future: Whitley Bay Canopy Refurbishment
Section MeetingVideo
28 April 2026
RailEI Lunch & Learn: How can we provide innovative drainage solutions in the 6ft and Cess faced with increasingly challenging environmental conditions?
Video
28 April 2026
The Re-Birth Of The 1802 Replica Trevithick Locomotive
Journal article
28 April 2026
Smart Infrastructure
Journal article
28 April 2026
Electrification Article – Project Electra
Journal article
28 April 2026
Low Adhesion Risk: Part 2
Journal article
27 April 2026
April Journal 2026
Journal article