Overview

Join us for a brief presentation of TasRail’s operations followed by a tour of the main rollingstock workshop where you will be able to view locomotives under life-extension rebuild, major overhaul and routine maintenance. Come prepared with your questions which can include rollingstock, track infrastructure, signals, safeworking, or rail operations in general.

Learning outcomes

• Gain an understanding of design and maintenance procedures for rollingstock.
• Gain insight into the management and installation of track infrastructure and signals systems.
• Learn about safeworking practices and rail operations in general.

Event program

4:30pm: Arrival and welcome
4:35pm: Site Induction
4:45pm: Workshop tour
5:45pm: Q&A
6:00pm: Informal networking opportunity

About the speaker

Simon Chandler, Signalling Asset Manager, TasRail

Simon graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1999 with a degree in electrical (power) engineering and has since worked in the power, rail, aviation and maritime industries. His lifelong passion has been in rail and has worked for over a decade with Pacific National Tasmania and TasRail. During this time he has worked in rollingstock and infrastructure maintenance, train operations, infrastructure capital works, signalling and network access.

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