Railway Transportation Systems (RTS) Podcast

Send a text James Dalton is General Manager at Australian Railway Historical Society. The ARHS recently celebrated its 90th birthday, and as well as publishing both Railway Digest and Australian Railway History magazines, is home to the most comprehensive private archive of railway-related information in Australia.  As General Manager, James is responsible for managing a small team of amazing staf...

Send a text Mark Scott  – a career investor, director and executive manager of consulting businesses that have straddled many industries, including rail and transportation. Mark is currently Chairman and founding partner of both Think Systems and Investructure, and serves on the Board as a Director of Providence Consulting.  All are consulting businesses, with a different but broad array of offeri...

Send a text Our guest for this fortnight is Atul Rastogi, Program Planning Manager at Sydney Trains. Atul started his professional career in 1992 in the Department of Signal Engineers in Indian Railways and later worked as Deputy Chief Signal and Telecom Engineer, he held a number of management positions in the diverse fields of engineering management, project management, and maintenance managemen...

Send a text Bassam Mansour Project Director at HSS Engineers Bhd delivering KVMRT, Line 2, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  Bassam started his professional career with British Railway Board (BRB) in the eighties  as an Electrification  Engineer working on 750V d.c and 25KV Channel Tunnel Electrification and has occupied  some prominent positions like as a senior Manager in  Dockland Light Rail in the UK,...

Send a text Sunail Husnain, Senior Program Manager at Sydney Trains. Sunail started his professional career in Railways in 1994 in Pakistan Railways. He worked as Divisional Permanent Way Engineer to construct, maintain and operation of one of the eight Railways Divisions in Pakistan. Sunail moved to Australia to work as project manager in Queensland Rail and later worked as Senior Project Enginee...

Send a text Andrew Howey, Chief Strategy Officer in Interface Rail Engineering in Melbourne.  Andrew started his professional career in 1986 as a Computer Programmer in MiTek Industries and later worked as Team Leader in Telstra. His Professional Railway Journey kicked in 1998 as a Deputy Project Manager in Bombardier Transportation. Andrew held Key roles as Managing Director for Invensys Rail in...

Send a text Sudhanshu Mani Independent Rail consultant , Sudhanshu Mani retired in the apex grade of GoI from the Indian Railways (IR) Service of Mechanical Engineering as General Manager, Integral Coach Factory, Chennai after serving IR for 38 years.  S. Mani is not just a consultant, but a multi-talented individual who is involved in a multitude of activities. He serves on the advisory and edito...

Send a text Kumar is the Director of OT Cyber Security at Sydney Metro. He has over twelve years of experience as a translator of security risks to the business, and he holds diversified exposure across multiple domains, including transportation, energy, technology & finance. He has assisted clients on a wide range of matters across the cybersecurity defence lifecycle, from identifying securit...

Send a text Our guest for this fortnight is Stephen Lemon Director Rail at Providence T&I.  Stephen started his professional career in 1986 as a S&T Trainee Technician in British Rail and later worked as S&T Manager, Senior Engineer, Principal Manager, Professional Head of signalling and control systems in Sydney Trains and Program Director Digital Systems in Transport for NSW.  Stephe...

Send a text Jahangir Shaik, He is a Systems Assurance Manager working in the middle east and worked on some great projects like Doha Metro, Riyadh Metro.   Jahangir started his professional career in 1997 as a Software Engineer with a Degree in Mechanical Engineering and worked on product development based on world renowned Systems Scientist Mr. John N Warfield ’s Systems Science.   His Profession...

Send a text Dr. Andrew Hussey, Director Regional RAMS – Asia Pacific at Hitachi.  Andrew is an experienced systems and RAMS expert with over 25 years’ experience in the railway transport and control systems industries. As well as being a technical specialist in the areas of systems, RAM, Safety and software engineering, Andrew also has extensive experience in line management roles, both within pro...

Send a text David is an internationally recognised developer of global minded and engaging leaders, teams and organisations.  For 25 years David has worked with organisations across a wide variety of industries in the areas of culture change, engagement, multi-national collaboration, M&A cultural alignment, business transformation, global project kick offs, and leadership coaching/development....

Send a text Vijay is an Engineering Graduate from the Birla Institute of Technology Ranchi, India. He started his professional career over 35 years ago.  He is an Electronics & Communication Engineer with over 33 years of Railway engineering experience and Management of Rail-based Transport System. Vijay is a visionary, strategic, collaborative and purpose driven leader with a track record of...

Send a text Thijs is an experienced Systems Integration leader. His main professional experience is the North South Metro line in Amsterdam that went into revenue service in 2018, where he was responsible for systems integration. After that Thijs joined the Digital Systems Program in Sydney, first as Integration Director and later as Project Director. Earlier this year he left Australia to return...

Send a text Frank Heibel, commonly known as Doc Frank, a very well-known consultant, trainer and conference speaker in the field of railway signalling. Born and raised in Germany, Frank has a Master degree and Doctorate from the Technical University Berlin and since then he has been in the signalling industry for over 30 years. After 20 years of working for various global suppliers, Frank moved to...

Send a text Robbert Burns is commissioning Director at Crosslinx Transit Solutions. Toronto, Canada. Robbie is leading in commissioning activities of Rail systems where CTS has been selected by Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx to deliver the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit Project. Robbie is a graduate of the London underground signalling Apprenticeship scheme graduating in 1996.He start...

Send a text Tony started his career with railways as a Relief Train recorder in Signal boxes in 1979, He has worked in numerous executive roles like Deputy Chief operating Officer, Olympic preparation manager for London Olympics, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Director Future Network Delivery, Chairman of the International Suburban Benchmarking Rail Group & Chief Executive of State Transit...

Send a text Steve Allday Executive General Manager at Allday Rail consultancy services, Steve started his professional carrier in 1971 with academic Degree in Engineering from university of Cambridge. Steve demonstrably experienced and energetic hands-on leader with a successful record of delivering in both Private and Public Sector Operations and in all aspects of Rail and Intermodal Transportati...

Send a text Andy is Founder and Director of NSW Country Safety Risk Services, the only wholly owned regionally based company specialising in Safety, Quality, Risk and Engineering Assurance. Based in the Riverina and servicing regionally based projects and businesses since 2022.   Andy Started his professional career in 1979 with British Rail, Andy was in senior Management roles specialising in Eng...

Send a text Pete Church, Head of Rail Delivery for Transport for NSW. Pete gained a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds, before staying on to study for a Phd in Surveying and Photogrammetry. After quitting his Phd (about half way through), he stumbled into a job in British Rail. He worked in several areas including Bridge Design and Permanent Way, before moving into Client s...

Send a text The Ninth Episode of our Railway Transportation Systems (RTS) Podcast in now available! Tara Kazi Human Factors Specialist at Sydney Metro. Tara started her professional carrier in 2000 as a fellow consultant with Ergonomics Research group, Tara has done Psychology in her graduation and Human centred Computer systems as her Master Degree both from university of Sussex and a PhD in Huma...

Send a text Wayne Cooney, the Principal Systems Integration Manager at MTR Corporation Limited.  Wayne started his professional career in December 1998 as an IT and communication systems Trainee. He finished up his traineeship and commenced in the railways in 2002 as a maintainer in the RailCorp Communications and Control Systems division, working his way through a distinguished career of 20+ year...

Send a text Raphaelle Guerineau is the Country CEO Siemens Mobility Australia & New Zealand. She joined Siemens in 2011 and has held various roles including the Head of Projects for Singapore, the Head of Tendering for ASEAN Pacific and more recently she was of Head of the Product Business based in Melbourne. Prior to this, she was with Alstom in Singapore where her roles included project mana...

Send a text Pascal Labouze,   Founder and principal at PL Advisory Pascal Started his professional carrier in 1993 with Alstom Transport in Cairo Egypt. Pascal is an Engineer with Master in Aeronautics and Management from reputed institutions.  Pascal has over 30 years of experience working in the rail, Security and Aerospace industry throughout Australia and overseas such France and Egypt. Pascal...

Send a text “GREAT LEADERS ARE GREAT STORYTELLERS”  The fifth episode of our Railway Transportation Systems (RTS) Podcast is now available! Our guest speaker is Howard Collins, Chief Operations Officer (COO), Greater Sydney at Transport for NSW. Howard has over 45+ years of experience and is known within the industry for his high skills in Operations Management, Disaster Recovery, Operational Plan...