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A Railway Industry Association Conference at RSN 2025
A Railway Industry Association
Conference at RSN 2025
The conference will consider the future outlook for UK rolling stock in the short, medium and long term, and is free to attend.
It will examine current options and proposals for the procurement of new build trains as well as fleet cascade and refurbishment options while focusing on how to adapt rail infrastructure and integrate alternative traction to achieve net zero targets.
Full Agenda Coming Soon
Meet Your Host
EVENT HOST:- Richard Carr – RIA Technical & Innovation Director
As Technical & Innovation Director at the Railway Industry Association (RIA), Richard’s role focuses on representing members interests in the important areas of technical strategy, innovation, research, safety and technical standards. He is also responsible for the coordination of RIA’s Nations & Regions network.
Richard has over 20 years of railway industry experience, as a consultant and rail business owner. Richard’s career has been focused in technical engineering businesses where design and innovation have played a leading role.
Meet the Speakers
Siemens Mobility – Paul Baines – Sales Director
Paul Baines has worked for more than 15 years in the Rail Industry in project, sales and executive management roles. For the past 7 years he’s been the Sales Director for Siemens Mobility’s Rolling Stock and Customer Services business units in the UK and Ireland region. From the 1st May Paul will be taking on a new role as Director of Major Programmes, and will assume responsibility for all of Siemens UK Rolling Stock programmes.
Presentation Topic
Opportunities and risks of rail reform from a rolling stock manufacturers perspective. Paul will also highlight the work Siemens are undertaking to widen their UK supply chain footprint, and how businesses can benefit from this.
Freightliner – Paul Long – Head of Traction & Rolling Stock Engineering
Paul started his career as a graduate engineer at Network Rail and stayed there for 14 years in a variety of engineering and project roles. He then moved to ZF to work as their Business Manager for the rail business in the UK & Ireland and also lead their global re-engineering team.
Paul then became the Technical Director of Loram UK; leading a team of engineering, operations and projects staff to deliver third-party works. He was also the technical lead for EMEA for new On Track Machines products. Paul now works as the Head of Engineering for Freightliner Group who are the UKs largest rail freight operator. He is responsible for the technical assurance for the fleet of over 2,000 vehicles, including locos and wagon, and also supports the development and delivery of Net Zero projects.
Paul is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Stadler Rail UK
TBA
Angel Trains
TBA
Grand Central
TBA
Chrome Angel
TBA
Rail Innovations – Greg Howell – Director
TBA
Network Rail
TBA
2025 – Conference
DON’T MISS OUT
Registering to attend RSN is all you need to access this promising event.
The conference – held upstairs, above the main exhibition hall – begins at circa 10am and runs through until circa 3pm.
Exact timings will be published here in the conference timetable.
The speakers will be announced on this page and simultaneously by Railway Industry Association.
About the host
The Railway Industry Association (RIA) champions a dynamic UK rail supply sector. We help to grow a sustainable, and high-performing railway as well as promoting UK rail expertise and products to international markets.
Rail is key to UK economic growth, supporting both sustainable investment and jobs in cities, towns, and communities across the UK. For every £1 in the rail transport system, over £2.50 of value is generated in the wider economy. The railway industry contributes
£41 billion in economic value and £14 billion in tax revenue each year, as well as supporting over 640,000 jobs throughout the UK. For every job in rail, a further four jobs is supported elsewhere in the UK economy. Every job in the rail supply chain is 29% more productive than the UK average, reflecting highly-skilled jobs in the sector.
RIA has over 400 companies in membership, active across the whole of the rail supply sector and covering a diverse range of products and services, including both multinational companies and SMEs (60% by number).
Championing a dynamic rail supply sector
Conference information
The Conference at RSN 2025 is not organised by Rolling Stock Networking and is organised by Railway Industry Association.
Rolling Stock Networking provides space to those third parties and each sub-event is entirely in the control of the respective organisers.
These complementary events in airline style seated format are expected to deliver a series of engaging programmes with a full programme of sub events during the day with speakers and topics focusing on the wider rail industry, its challenges and specifically in building a better railway.
What our customers are saying
“161 Brochures taken and 9 Zoom calls booked over 3 days next week – that is what I call networking!
“It has been an unbelievable event for me.”
– Martin Whitbread, the Orange Train Wash Company