Railway Conversations with Doc Frank
by Doc Frank
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Authentic discussions with interesting people about railway subjects that matter.
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- #114 – Why a Year Late on Brownfield CBTC Is a Good Result, with Mike Palmer · 1 h 11 minA brownfield CBTC project that lands a year late is a good result. Not a consolation prize. That is what the record actually looks like once you take the press releases out of…
- #113 – Why ETCS Is a Change Program, Not a Tech Project, with Cara Cohen · 1 h 1 minFit the locomotives, commission the trackside, write the rules, and ETCS can still stumble on the day a driver decides the old way was better. The technology is the measurable…
- #112 – Why More Review Comments Make Railways Less Safe, with Andy Petrie · 1 h 8 minTwenty people comment on a document. Nineteen of them have no expertise in it. Every comment has to be answered, and the two that mattered get lost in the noise. Andy Petrie has…
- #111 — Fitting ETCS to a Freight Railway, with Craig Evans · 55 minFreight is where the ETCS business case really gets tested. Many freight locomotives were built long before anyone drew a European Train Control System (ETCS) fitment design, and…
- #110 — Why Digital Signalling Never Got Cheaper, with Andy Harrison · 36 minTwenty years ago the promise was simple. Digital train control would get cheaper, and ETCS and CBTC would become the default for every new scheme. Neither happened. Costs keep…
- #109 — The World's Most Modern ETCS Runs in India, with Vinay Kumar Singh · 37 minWhen people picture the most advanced ETCS in the world, they think Europe. They should look at Delhi. The Regional Rapid Transit System runs ETCS Level 2 with Hybrid Train…
- #108 — CBTC Interoperability: Why It's Harder Than You Think, with Dr Alan Rumsey · 1 h 10 minCBTC has been the world's de facto metro signalling standard for 40 years. In all that time it has never been made interoperable across suppliers, so why is the question suddenly…
- #107 — ETCS at Age 35: Why So Slow? With one of its original authors, Bogdan Godziejewski · 59 minThirty-five years ago, a small international team sat down to write the first specification for what would become the European Train Control System. Bogdan Godziejewski was one…
- #106 — Why HS2 Needs More Carriages, with Chris Gibb · 59 minChris Gibb spent 45 years in high-profile positions across the British railways. He knows what a successful railway operation looks like — and right now he is publicly…
- #105 – GSM-R Is Dying. Are Railways Ready for FRMCS? · 48 minGSM-R is on its way out. FRMCS — the 5G-based successor for railway radio communications — is on its way in. But the migration from one to the other is anything but…
- #104 – High Speed Rail Lessons with Michael Byng · 55 minDoc Frank talks to Michael Byng from England. Based on his vast experience from working on high speed rail projects in various countries, including Britain and the Middle East…
- #103 - The BIG Railway Outlook with Steve Allday · 1 h 13 minDoc Frank talks to Steve Allday, a renowned and experienced railway consultant from Sydney and regular guest on the show. They talk about three key topics defining the future of…
- #102 - High Speed Rail in Australia with Tim Parker · 57 minDoc Frank talks to Tim Parker, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian High Speed Rail Authority. The conversation addresses various points of criticism towards Australia's…
- #101 - Disrupting the ETCS Supply Market with Stanislas Pinte · 54 minDoc Frank talks to Stanislas Pinte from "The Signalling Company" which set out to address shortcomings in the fitment of locomotives and trains with ETCS onboard equipment. If…
- #100 – Metro Rail Wisdom with Oliver Fried · 1 h 10 minDoc Frank chats with Oliver Fried from Sydney, Australia, about Metros but also about High Speed Rail and the common topics between them. Learn how Sydney Metro compares to big…
- #99 – Making ETCS Interoperable with Xavier Ricco and Jean-Francois Verdin · 1 h 34 minDoc Frank teams up with two experts on ETCS interoperability testing from Belgium. Learn about practical problems with ETCS interoperability in Europe, what is being done to…
- #98 – A “Talk About Nothing” with Matthew Rea · 57 minDoc Frank chats with Matthew Rea from England where people need to be careful what they can say publicly these days. This difficulty to find discussable topics led to the famous…
- #97 – Transport Planning Masterclass with Gary McGregor (Part 3) · 28 minDoc Frank chats with Gary McGregor from Sydney in Australia, a seasoned transport strategist who was involved in developing key planning documents shaping the long-term rail…
- #96 – Transport Planning Masterclass with Gary McGregor (Part 2) · 27 minDoc Frank chats with Gary McGregor from Sydney in Australia, a seasoned transport strategist who was involved in developing key planning documents shaping the long-term rail…
- #95 – Transport Planning Masterclass with Gary McGregor (Part 1) · 27 minDoc Frank chats with Gary McGregor from Sydney in Australia, a seasoned transport strategist who was involved in developing key planning documents shaping the long-term rail…
