RTSA University Challenge EOI is now live
In 2025, the Challenge will run over three nights in July. As well as networking with your fellow students and engineers working in rail, there will be cash and non-cash […]
RTSA 2024 summary video
RTSA 2024 video
Nominations are open for the RTSA Railway Engineering Thesis Awards – Graduate (PhD & Masters) and Undergraduate
RTSA Railway Engineering Thesis Award categories are open and submissions will be accepted until the 10th December 2023. RTSA Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award The Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award […]
RTSA end of year message
Thank you to all of our members for your continued support, enthusiasm and attendance at RTSA events this year. We had over 40 events in our 2021 calendar across our […]
NZ Chapter End of Year Event
Last week the NZ Chapter finished off a busy year with two great presentations by KiwiRail on the Future Investment in Rail. Over the year, the NZ Chapter presented 16 […]
RTSA Railway Professional of the Year Award – 2021 Nominations are now open!
The RTSA Railway Professional of the Year Award is offered to a person aged 35 years or above, who has been employed in the railway industry for at least 10 […]
RTSA NZ Chapter – 2020 End of Year Event and TrackSAFE Awards
Thursday 3rd December was the RTSA NZ Chapter end of year function and AGM, it was held simultaneously in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. Daniel Headifen, the RTSA NZ Chapter Chair, […]
RTSA acknowledges recent passing of rail industry stalwart Ian Nibloe (1937-2020)
The RTSA acknowledges the recent passing of Ian Nibloe, our inaugural National Secretary from 1998-2001. Ian had more than 40 years experience in engineering, infrastructure planning, and senior management positions […]
RTSA 2020 Awards Winners Announced
Congratulations to the RTSA 2020 award recipients announced at the special webinar on 15 July 2020. Citations will be posted on the RTSA website and the webinar will be available […]
RTSA NZ Introduction to Reliability Centred Maintenance Presentation
Hi All. Thank you to everybody who made it to the presentation by Keith Ashington from Vitruvius. It was very interesting to hear about Reliability Centred Maintenance from somebody who […]
RTSA NZ South Island Rail Projects Presentation
Hi All. Thank you to everybody who made it to the South Island Rail Projects Presentation that was held in Christchurch on Thursday. It was great to see so many […]
RTSA NZ Presentation World’s Longest and Heaviest Train by Trent Ludlow
Hi All. Recently Trent Ludlow (KiwiRail) presented on his involvement in a project while working for BHP in Australia. The project was to run the World’s Longest and Heaviest Train […]
RTSA NZ Chapter Cleaning the Otira Tunnel Presentation by Neil Mason
Recently Neil Mason from Vitruvius presented on a large project that he helped drive, there was some international interest in the project which was Cleaning the Otira Tunnel so he […]
RTSA NZ Engineering New Zealand Technical Interest Group Launch
The RTSA in New Zealand recently held well attended events in Auckland and Wellington to celebrate the chapter becoming an Technical Group of Engineering New Zealand. A new RTSA New […]
RTSA strengthens ties with Engineering NZ
RTSA strengthens ties with Engineering New Zealand by becoming a technical group. Here is the formal announcement by Engineering New Zealand.. RTSA New Zealand Chapter Chair Simon Wood says the […]
NZ Chapter – FIT Light Rail Presentation
Dear Members, You are all welcome to attend the RTSA lunchtime presentation by FIT on the 25th November. The presentation by Kerry Wood will canvass how light rail could work in […]
NZ Chapter – Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering in Rail
Dear members, Thanks for attending Shaun Wilson’s presentation on ‘Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering in Rail’ presentation last week. His presentation can be downloaded by clicking on this link. Regards, […]
NZ Chapter – ART IoT Presentation
17-Jun-2018 Start date: 17-Jun-2018 End date: 17-Jun-2018 Dear members, last week’s Internet of Things (IoT) presentation from ART can be downloaded from this link
NZ Chapter – Rhys Haward CORE Presentation
Start date: 17-Jun-2018 End date: 17-Jun-2018 Dear Members, Rhys Hayward’s presentation from May 17th can be downloaded from this link
NZ Chapter – Don Skerman – Advances in Testing of Rollingstock
Start date: 19-Apr-2018 End date: 19-Apr-2018 Thanks to everyone who attended Don’s presentation on April 12. The slides from Don’s talk, Advances in Testing of Rollingstock, can now be downloaded from […]
Kaikoura Earthquake Transport Links Rebuild Forum- 13 March 2018
Start date: 15-Apr-2018 End date: 15-Apr-2018 All, papers from the Kaikoura Earthquake Links Rebuild Forum hosted by Engineers New Zealand and the RTSA in Wellington on the 13th of March […]
NZ Chapter – Gold Coast Light Rail / Bombardier Presentation
Start date: 14-Mar-2018 End date: 14-Mar-2018 Hi all, thanks to those who made it to the GC light rail presentation. The slides from the presentation have been uploaded to the […]
NZ Chapter – Making Mainline Derailments History
Start date: 01-Nov-2017 End date: 01-Nov-2017 Thanks to those that attended Phillip Campbell’s ‘Making Mainline Derailments History’ talks in October – Phillip’s presentation can be downloaded here. Many thanks to Phillip for presenting […]
Rob McAlpine – Advantages of Rail to NZ
Start date: 12-Oct-2017 End date: 12-Oct-2017 All – thanks for attending Rob’s presentation. The slides from his presentation can be viewed here
NZ Chapter – Grant Craig – Dunedin Railways
Start date: 26-Sep-2017 End date: 26-Sep-2017 Hi everyone, Thanks to those for attending Grant Craig’s lunchtime presentation on the 16th. Grant is Dunedin Railways’ Operations Manager and also the President of FRONZ (Federation of […]
NZ Chapter – State of the Art: Light Rail Technology
Start date: 07-Aug-2017 End date: 07-Aug-2017 Our July Chapter meeting featured Scott Elaurant from Jacobs Transportation Consultants. Scott provided a comprehensive presentation which included and overview of light rail systems and […]
NZ Chapter – Richard Donaldson: Train Planning 101
Start date: 19-Jul-2017 End date: 19-Jul-2017 Thanks to all who attended Richard’s presentation on Train Planning / Signalling 102 last week. For those that are interested, the slides from his […]
NZ Chapter – The Safety Liability for Road and Rail – Murray King
Start date: 02-Jul-2017 End date: 02-Jul-2017 On Friday 30th June, the NZ chapter had its June event, the Safety Liability of Road and Rail, presented by Dr. Murray King. Murray’s presentation […]
NZ chapter – Martinus Rail
Start date: 08-Jun-2017 End date: 08-Jun-2017 The NZ Chapter’s first May presentation was from Mark Fulford of Martinus Rail, who are a supplier of Turnout components to KiwiRail. The talk […]
NZ Chapter – Tracksafe Level Crossing Tour
Start date: 08-Jun-2017 End date: 08-Jun-2017 A joint RTSA & IRSE lunchtime event was held on 31 May in Wellington with John Skilton. John shared his perspective on a recent […]
NZ Chapter – Alan Bannister (Transdev) Presentation
Start date: 26-Apr-2017 End date: 26-Apr-2018 Thanks to all who attended the talk by Alan Bannister at the end of a short week – Alan’s slides may be downloaded here.
NZ Chapter – George Erdos March Presentation
Start date: 06-Apr-2017 End date: 06-Apr-2017 Thanks to everyone for coming to the presentation by George Erdos in March. Many of you expressed interest in the slides, so we’ve posted […]
New Zealand Level Crossing Forum
Start date: 30-Nov-2016 End date: 30-Nov-2016 The 30th November 2016, saw the RTSA/IRSE/Engineering New Zealand join forces and run a seminar focused wholly on Level Crossings and the challenges they present […]
RTSA NZ Chapter – National Freight Demand Study
26-Jul-2014 Start date: 02-Jul-2014 End date: 02-Jul-2014 Please find the link to Murray King’s presentation on the 2014 National Freight Demand Study to the RTSA in Wellington on 2nd July plus Randall Prestige’s […]