What the railways industry needs from the world of lighting. A talk by Robert Hopkin at Rail Alliance.

1. Lightscene 2015:
What does the Rail Sector need
from the Lighting Industry?
Robert Hopkin
RailAlliance
21 May 2015

2. Answer …
•Value!

3. Better Answer …
• Innovative, ingenious solutions to existing problems and future challenges
• Sustainability credentials – from both technical and environmental perspectives
• Rail sector is a ‘show me’ industry … are the glossy brochures days’ numbered?
• Whole Life Cost models are at last being entertained by the OEMs & top tiers
• Directors of Supplier Sourcing becoming popular appointments (in our diaries!)
• Practical approach to sharing the burden of risk becoming more popular
• Rail Delivery Group is starting to make its presence felt ...

4. Light after Dark – Feb 2015
40 companies, 3 CPD lectures, 70 attendees

5. Knowledge
• What do you know about the Rail sector
• Railways and Other GuidedTransport Systems Regulations (ROGS) 2006
• European Railway Safety Directive (2004/49/EC)
• Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) … eg PRM-compliancy is a hot topic
• “Who does what” (Network RailVsTrainOperating Companies)
• Major Projects (HS2, Crossrail,Thameslink, IEP, Crossrail2, MML Electrification)
• How the railway works … for you!

6. Show me the money 1

7. Show me the money 2

10. NR-operated Stations
• London Cannon Street; London Charing Cross; London Euston; London
Fenchurch Street; London King's Cross; London Liverpool Street; London
Bridge; London Paddington; London St. Pancras (domestic); London
Victoria; LondonWaterloo; Birmingham New Street; EdinburghWaverley;
Glasgow Central (High Level); Leeds; Liverpool Lime Street; and
Manchester Piccadilly

11. TOC-operated Stations
•Approx 2483 remaining stations!

12. Profile
• What does the Rail Sector know about you?
• FutureRailwayTestVoucher Scheme click
• Rail Industry SupplierQualification Scheme (RISQS) click
• Rail Industry SupplierApproval Scheme (RISAS) click
• CompeteFor used by LondonOlympics 2012,Crossrail and HS2 click
• Exhibitions (Railtex, Infrarail, Innotrans,Trako, EurasiaRail,AusRail et al)
• Media (mainstream, specialist, social … the good, the bad and the ugly!)

13. Rail Supply Group
• Launched by BIS and DfT on 21 Jan 2015 – www.railsupplygroup.org
• Vision Statement – www.railsupplygroup.org/fast-track-for-growth/
• Five Pillars:

14. Mentoring
• Rail SupplyGroup (RSG) SME Strand incudes inter alia:
• RSG Mentoring Programme
• RSG ‘Open Doors’ Programme
• enquiries@railmentor.com to sign up for the RSG Mentoring Programme
• RailAlliance – B2B Networking organisation for the Rail Supply Chain & more …
• Railway Industry Association – the trade association for the Rail Sector – www.riagb.org.uk
• Derby & Derbyshire Rail Forum – www.derbyrailforum.org
• Rail Freight Group – looks after the Freight Operating Companies (FOCs) – www.rfg.org.uk

15. Mentoring
• Mentoring programmes provided through the auspices of BIS and DfT
• Assistance with product placement and specialist knowledge
• Development of Business Development Managers as sector professionals
• Creation of virtual supply chain groupings
• Niche (sub-sector) events
• Breakfast Meetings with the good and the great
• How the railway works … for you!

16. Events, PR & Case Studies

17. What the Rail Alliance does do:
• A Rail Sector Business to Business (B2B) Organisation providing:
• Networking Events (nationally)
• Seminars and Conferences
• Delivering Mentoring Schemes on behalf of BIS and DfT
• Media & Exhibition Support (including hosting outdoor rail technology shows)
• Testing,Trialling & Demonstration for SMEs and Large Enterprises
• Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) Delivery Partner
• … anything its members want it to be – we’re driven by them!

18. What the Rail Alliance does not do:
• Act as aTrade Association
• Lobbying
• Politics
• Dinner Dances, Golfing Days, CorporateTubThumping 
• What others do …

19. Rail Live
2013
2014

20. Future RailwayTestVoucher Scheme

21. • http://www.futurerailway.org/innovation/Pages/Testing-Voucher.aspx

22. Collaboration
• ‘Graveyards are full of indispensable people’ … Charles de Gaulle
• ‘I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-
and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone
who sells 50 million albums’ … Noel Gallagher
• ‘Politeness is the poison of Collaboration’ … Edwin Land
• ‘Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much’ … Helen Keller
• ‘It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too); those who learned to
collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed’ ... not Charles Darwin

23. BS11000
• World’s first national standard for Collaborative Business Relationships
• Set to become an ISO standard Feb 2016 (ish!)
• BS11000 Leadership and Auditing courses provided by the University ofWarwick (£1200+VAT)
• Introduction to BS11000 courses are provided by BSI (£595+VAT)
• RailAlliance provides BS11000 AwarenessTraining courses at its Long Marston base(£50+VAT)
• Standard is overseen by the Institution for CollaborativeWorking
• See www.instituteforcollaborativeworking.com
• Network Rail (Infrastructure Projects) has been accredited to the standard

24. Hands across the water …
• The Rail Alliance is a Founder Member of the European Rail Clusters Initiative ERCI
(www.eurailclusters.com) – a ‘super’ cluster of 9 railway business clusters from 7
European countries including: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and
United Kingdom.
• Objectives:
• To increase European competitiveness of the railway sector through innovation
• To share experiences and efforts to avoid redundancies and promote efficiency
• To build European projects and bring business opportunities to our members

25. Interaction with the Knowledge Base
• Rail Research UK Association – www.rruka.org.uk
• Motor Industry Research Association – www.mira.co.uk/our-services/rail
• Transport Research Laboratory – www.trl.co.uk/markets/rail
• Millbrook Proving Ground – www.millbrook.co.uk/Sectors/Rail
• Innovate UK – www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk
• Transport KnowledgeTransfer Network (KTN) – www.transportktn.org

26. What is QRTC?

27. What is QRTC?
• Quinton RailTechnology Centre; home to:
• Viva Rail (D78 Project refurbishment and re-roleing to 3-car DMU sets)
• Chrysalis Rail LLP train refurbishment (currently working on FGW DMU fleet)
• Motorail UK Ltd (prototype engineering, maintenance & off main-line storage of rolling stock)
• TotalTank Solutions (collaboration with Motorail and LCM to deliver tanker fleet management)
• ABC Consortium (training, testing, trialling and demonstration)
• FutureRailway partner for FRTVS
• Birmingham Centre for Rail Research and Education partner for ongoing trials – eg COMORAIL
Programme for Remote Condition Monitoring)

28. Where is QRTC?
• QRTC
• Station Road
• Long Marston
• Stratford on Avon
• Warwickshire
• CV37 8RP
• 01789 720 026

29. Technology
Readiness Levels
(TRLs)
Description
1 Basic principles observed and reported
2 Technology concept and/or application formulated
3 Analytical and experimental critical function and/or
characteristic proof of concept
4 Technology basic validation in a laboratory
environment
Technology Readiness Levels 1 - 4

30. Technology
Readiness Levels
(TRLs)
Description
5 Technology basic validation in a relevant environment
6 Technology model or prototype demonstration in a
relevant environment
7 Technology prototype demonstration in a simulated
operational environment
8 Actual technology completed and qualified through
test and demonstration
9 Actual technology qualified through successful
mission operations
Technology Readiness Levels 5 - 9

31. Useful RSSB links …
http://www.rssb.co.uk/research-development-and-innovation/futurerailway
http://www.futurerailway.org/innovation/pages/testing-and-trialling-facilities.aspx
http://www.futurerailway.org/research/documents/2014-04-t993-guide-testing-and-trialling-v0.5p.pdf
http://www.futurerailway.org/leadership/lists/testingtrialling/allitems.aspx
http://www.rssb.co.uk/groups-and-committees

32. UsefulTSLG links …
http://www.futurerailway.org/strategy/about/Pages/What-is-the-RTS.aspx
http://www.futurerailway.org/leadership/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/strategicbusinessplan/c
p5/supporting%20documents/transforming%20network%20rail/technical%20
strategy.pdf

33. Events
• July 9th , Coventry: Rail Interiors Cluster Event (includes Station Interiors) to be held at
and hosted by Coventry UniversityTechnocentre
• July 14th ,York: we will be co-hosting a networking event at National Rail Museum with an
update on the HSR college in Doncaster and inputs fromTOCs (Abellio) and a ROSCO
(Porterbrook Leasing) with regard to ‘Supplying Innovation to theTOCs’ and the
‘Incentivization of Innovation in Franchising’
• August (dates tbc), Sheffield and Mansfield: networking events themed
respectively around Rolling Stock Maintenance and “Reconnecting with Rail”
• September 16-17, QRTC Long Marston: RAIL2015 … an outdoor exhibition of
the Rail Supply Chain ‘at work’ … 100+ exhibitors have already booked space

34. Events
• September (tbc), London: Networking event themed on Collaborative Working and BS11000
• October 8th, Riverside Centre Derby: ‘RailVehicle Enhancements’ exhibition … Rail Alliance
will be holding a breakfast networking event; RailAlliance members who choose to exhibit are
eligible for a £750 reduction off their stand booking fee (www.rve2015.co.uk/)
• November 4th-5th, NEC Birmingham: we will be exhibiting at ‘The Advanced Engineering
Show’ in the Advanced Materials Zone … a great show – space virtually sold out – 4 or 5 co-
exhibitors are required (see www.advancedengineeringuk.com/)
• December (tbc), Long Marston: ‘Light After Dark’ afternoon seminar & outdoor night
exhibition for the rail lighting sector … to deconflict annually with SiB (2016) and Lux Live
(18/19 Nov 2015)
• December (tbc), Huddersfield: we will be co-hosting a technologically-based event with the
University of Huddersfield

35. Light After Dark 2015

36. Light After Dark 2015

37. Any Questions?
• Thank you for inviting the Rail Alliance to present to your conference – have
a safe journey home …
• Robert Hopkin
• Executive Director
• Rail Alliance
• robert.hopkin@railalliance.co.uk
• 01789 720 026