Network Rail own, operate, maintain and develop the railway infrastructure in England, Scotland and Wales. That’s 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and the thousands of signals, level crossings and stations.

Network Rails role is to run a safe, reliable and efficient rail network with a vision to deliver a simpler, better, greener railway for customers and communities.

Darren Sharp is a Experienced Senior Consultant and Lead Principal Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the light and heavy rail industry. Skilled in Engineering Management, Systems Engineering. S&C systems and Project Delivery.
Strong consulting professional with dual chartership from ICE and PWI.

Network Rails Sustaining Sleepers Strategy

Latest advancements in railway sleepers and re-use of track ballast; including concrete innovation, ceasing timber for composite, lateral resistance tests and sleeper selection guidance. 

With Network Rail’s Net Zero 2050 strategy in place, this presentation will provide details of how Network Rail are reducing carbon in track materials, improving track resilience and introducing circularity within its supply chain for 2025.

First in class low carbon track construction, design guidance on reduced CO2 construction specifications, reducing natural resource depletion and recycling serviceable track materials will all be included in this session.

Lunch & Learn

The PWI Lunch and Learn sessions were launched in 2024, building a community for industry experts to share their knowledge on Rail Infrastructure Engineering and a great Continuous Professional Development(CPD) opportunity for all!

The topics can cover technical research, project delivery or novel technology; the first ever event covered the delivery of a major rail infrastructure project with the subsequent session on the technical intricacies of turnouts.

The key difference to other PWI chapter events is this event spans all states and wider, looking to connect like-minded professionals from different rail infrastructure managers for the benefit of the rail industry as a whole; with internationally delivered presentations also planned.

This is achieved by holding the events on line via Microsoft Teams, typically every 8 weeks.

For any queries relating to Lunch and Learn sessions please contact us on lunchandlearn@pwinsw.org.au