Adrian will cover the development of the thinking behind the Brighton Mainline Upgrade Programme (BMUP) from 2010-2015 where a number of interventions were required as East Croydon urban developments matured and from 2015-2018 where the growth of the route was considered post-Thameslink to 2043. In the period 2015-2018 his team managed the development of options for funders that formed layouts able to accommodate the anticipated growth. He will run through the methods used to develop options with due consideration of constraints that led to the outputs of the feasibility study stage.
Taj will then talk through the key design decisions made at the option selection phase of the CARS project. In particular the signalling elements, that have helped further the design maturity of the scheme to support the public consultation process. He will run through how the design has evolved and also what the upcoming challenges and opportunities are for the scheme going forwards.
Adrian started on the railway via the BR S&T graduate scheme. He spent the next 15 years or so in maintenance for BR / Amec / Network Rail on the Sussex Route based in Brighton and Croydon. He moved into larger scheme development in the mid 2000s working on Airtrack (Heathrow southern access), Waterloo remodelling, Thameslink and Crossrail working from Euston. He concentrated on the Brighton Mainline Upgrade Programme (BMUP) from 2015 to 2018 on the scoping and feasibility stages to develop choices for funders, leading a multidisciplinary team and being the systems engineering lead. He then spent 3 years at Network Rail's Network Certification Body (NCB) working on project CSM certification, before retiring late last year.
Taj began his railway journey on the Network Rail graduate scheme in 2009, spending 6 to 9 months on placements working with different parts of the organisation from maintenance to design to project engineering. His first role after the graduate scheme was delivering parts of the Kent E&P renewals and enhancements portfolio as a project manager. Following this, he worked on Crossrail West for several years as a signalling project engineer and supported the delivery of several packages of works including the relock and re-control of Slough PSB to TVSC and the ETCS rollout within the Heathrow Tunnels. He has spent the last 4 years as a senior engineer working on the feasibility and option selection phases of schemes for the Southern and Anglia regions both as a signalling project engineer and multi disciplinary lead project engineer.Please click here to register before 1700 on 29th April 2021