Participants will have the opportunity to undertake the following roles: Signaller, Guard, & Train Dispatch. This opportunity is available to a team of 20 members who would like to develop their operating skills in a real-time operating environment, and support their IRO academic program where applicable.

The UK Technical Visit offers an opportunity to participate in site tours at Bombardier and Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station with an evening presentation at Rolls Royce. The site tours will focus on how each industry implement their energy conservation processes and how effective this is.

With transport, and in particular railways, high on the political agenda, the 2010 General Election looks like it will be one of the most exciting for many years. MPs and Peers from each of the main political parties will debate future rail policy at this invitation only event in Westminster.

Network Rail and the West Midlands Fire Brigade have invited IRO South East Area members to a full scale emergency exercise at the Network Rail base near Long Marston.

This is the first event of the Young Railway Professionals, a group formed from the young members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Railway Operators, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institution of Railway Signalling Engineers. The dinner in open to all young professionals in the railway industry.

The presentation initially reflects on the inception of mainline AC electrification in the UK and examines the evolution of the different system designs as applied to the main routes.

The IROSE are offering our members the opportunity to operate the Ffestiniog Railway for the weekend of 11th-13th September in the roles of Signaller, Guard, Controller, Shunter and Permanent Way.

The c2c Open Day on 18th October was a great opportunity to gain a greater insight into the day to day running of a Train Operating Company, and was attended by a wide variety of people both within and outside the rail industry.

The IRO Young Professionals were delighted that Patrick Hallgate, Route Director for Network Rail's Anglia region, accepted the invitation to speak to us during March 2008.

In 1987, a transport revolution occurred in London, yet few imagined just what it would become. For £77 million, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) opened as the first driverless railway in the UK.