The South of England accounts for a significant portion of the UK’s rail investment strategy and is home to 7 sub-national transport bodies that have all placed rail infrastructure at the centre of their strategic investment plans.

Every year leaders of industry from Network Rail, HS2, Train Operators, Majors Contractors and transport bodies converge at the TransCityRail SOUTH conference, exhibition and networking dinner for a day of collaboration, conversation and engagement.

At this years event we're discussing the Southern Integrated Delivery Plan, CP7, Great British Railways transition, IoT and AI, Net-Zero and much more...

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Registration / Breakfast / Networking / Exhibition

Grab your name badge, breakfast and start your networking early

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Claire Mann, Managing Director, South Western Railway - Invited

Claire leads a programme of investment worth £1.2bn to transform the passenger expeirence for the operator by investing in service operation, environment and sustainability, workforce, technology and more...

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Toufic Machnouk, Director Industry Partnership for Digital Railway, Network Rail - Invited

Join Toufic for a conversation on the new industry partnership to deliver a digital railway that creates a higher performing, more productive railway and why this new way of working will be a real vanguard for how the industry works with GBR.

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Leaders Debate - ARUP


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Speaker - Siemens


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Refreshments / Networking / Exhibition
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Leon Hall, Head of Maintenance Readiness, London Underground - Invited
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Leaders Debate - LNER


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Chris Fowler, Network Operations Director, Govia Thamelink Railway & Network Rail

Chris is accountable for the real time performance of the GTR network across all seven routes on which they operate and for the performance of Network Rails TOC and freight customers on the Sussex route.

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Lunch/Networking/Exhibition
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Strategic Partner

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Leaders Debate - Southern Integrated Delivery
The Southern Region's up to £9 billion estimated renewals portfolio will be delivered over the next ten years by an innovative, performance-based alliance that will include four partners in addition to Network Rail's Works Delivery team. Join key members of the SID delivery team for a detailed conversation on supply chain opportunities across buildings and civils, electrification and plant, track, signalling spanning CP7 & 8.
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Ellie Burrows, Managing Director Southern Region, Network Rail - Invited

With a budget of over £7bn Ellie leads the Southern region, serving passengers and freight operators across the busiest rail lines in the country, transporting large numbers of commuters to London and other employment hubs from Devon in the West to Kent in the East and links Wessex, Sussex and Kent as well as Network Rail High Speed.

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Refreshments/Networking/Exhibition
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Leaders Debate - AI Technology in the Rail Industry
With digitising the railway, complex route networks, tight timetables and growing passenger numbers, IoT and AI artificial will play a major role in the future of the rail industry. Join us for an idepth conversation on how the rail industry is using technology right now, how we plan to use it in the future and why we need to attract more suppliers from the tech sector into the rail supply chain. 

Panellists Include:

  • Brad Smith Head of Public & Passenger Safety at Network Rail
  • Russell Willans Digital & Data Transformation Director at GBRTT
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Katie Frost, Route Director for Anglia, Network Rail

With a budget of almost £3bn to invest in the Anglian route Katie joins this years line-up to discuss invesment strategy for the route as we move towards CP7 and integrate with GBR.

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David Davidson, Interim Western Route Director, Network Rail

The Wales and Western route has a budget of almost £4bn under David's setwarship and has set amitious plans in play for CP7 and at the forefront of his keynote at this years event.

Dinner Agenda

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Networking drinks reception
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Keynote Speaker - Huw Merriman MP, Minister of State Rail and HS2, Department for Transport (Invited)
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Strategic Partner - TBC
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Inspirational Speaker
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Dinner & Networking

These times and invited speakers are subject to change without notice