Agenda

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• Examining turnout function as it relates to the passage of wheeled vehicles
• Enhancing the understanding of the functional performance of the turnout
• Looking at the basics of wheel rail interaction: Forces and stresses, rail flow and fatigue cracking
• Vehicle track considering dynamics and forces associated with different geometries

• Examining the design of turnouts and all their components
• Analysing the complexity of a variety of turnouts

• Location: Drainage, access and formation
• Ensuring suitable access points for maintenance and operational purposes
• Geometry
• Examining examples of poorly thought out designs and the lessons learnt from such examples

• Turnout bearer functional and structural design
• Components and raw materials
• Bearer manufacture, inspection and testing
• Bearer stockpiling, despatch and delivery

• Turnouts as a contribution to derailment risk
• The unique challenges of light rail

• Designs and geometry
• Fastenings and toe loads
• Maintenance

• Lock testing, detection and backdrives
• Signalling maintenance issues on turnouts
• Turnout issues impacting signalling
• Failure modes to be controlled
• The 'ideal' arrangement

Led by expert facilitators, these breakout workshop sessions will be an opportunity to have a more detailed look at the areas of design and the maintenance of rail and track in turnouts.
Discover practical skills that can be immediately applied to your current project.

Participants are asked to forward these in advance to tina.karas@informa.com.au and come prepared for discussion and hands-on problem solving.

• Examining the key elements of the design and manufacturing of dual gauge turnouts
• Analysing the different types of dual gauge turnouts and their role in the wider rail network

• Examining the core elements of manufacture and fabrication
• Material technology, machining technology, bolting and fixing, welding and surface finish
• Low stress shapes, modelling technology, strategy for hardness development, special machinery and components

• Different IRJ designs and failure modes
• The IRJ manufacturing process
• Maintenance and examining the short service life
• Practical applications of research findings

• Robotic welding of crossings
• Detailed look at specific maintenance issues for turnouts

• Assessing the need and economics of existing assets

• Turnouts with light rail and heavy axle loads
• Turnouts with heavy rail and heavy axle loads

• Where to start?
• Other works

• Track construction works

• Delivering projects in a ‘live’ rail environment
• Managing client expectations and supplier relationships
• Maintaining a skills and an excellent safety track record

Regional Rail Link is a major new rail line that will provide capacity for enough trains for thousands more passengers across the Melbourne and country rail networks in the peak period. Regional Rail Link separates regional trains from metropolitan trains for the first time giving Geelong, Bendigo and Ballarat trains their own dedicated tracks through the metropolitan system from Sunshine to Southern Cross Station, increasing capacity and reliability.

Attendees will have a first-hand opportunity to view key engineering works. For more information about the project, please visit www.regionalraillink.vic.gov.au