The inaugural meeting of the Society took place on 17 January 1962. Our first President was the then Chief Signal Engineer (London Transport), Mr R Dell OBE and its first Chairman Mr V H Smith. Sixty years on from that inaugural meeting join us as we celebrate our 60th anniversary! We intend to celebrate the anniversary by:

1 - Taking a look at the immediate transport plans in the capital and beyond.

2 - Looking forward to our 75th anniversary by creating a time capsule of our predictions for transport in the capital in 2037.

The 4 Line Modernisation (4LM) Project is a much needed re-signalling of the oldest underground system in the world, the Subsurface Railway (SSR). The Subsurface railway consists of the Metropolitan Line, the Hammersmith and City Line, the Circle Line, and the District Line. 7 and 8 car passenger trains as well as Engineering Vehicles are equipped to run within the Communication Based Train Control system. The project will also re-signal some interoperable areas which adds to the complexity of this already challenging project.

The re-signalling project uses Thales’s 21st century SelTrac technology to implement a highly reliable, high performance railway in the SSR’s brownfield environment. It is Thales’s largest ever implementation of its SelTrac Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) System. The system makes use of modern transponder and Wi-Fi technologies to provide a semi-automatic (STO) signalling system (Grade of Automation 2 – GoA 2). The project has successfully commissioned 4 of 11 Subsurface Migration Areas (SMAs), which are currently serving passengers in central London. Testing is ongoing in an additional 5 SMAs.

This presentation is a technical overview of the system and the approach taken. In addition to the high level views of the system and the project approach, it peels the layers of technology back and describes some of the key challenges and approaches. The presentation will concentrate on the technical implementation and field experiences of people working on the system on a regular basis with particular focus on Automatic Train Control (ATC).

The Northern Line Extension enables 20,000 new homes and 25,000 new jobs for the surrounding area and it was successfully delivered into operational Service in September 2021. In this presentation, Thomas Stankowski will give a summary of the new signalling system now in use on the Northern Line Extension and give an insight into some of the challenges and successes of delivering the first extension of the London Underground network in over 20 years.

The Society's Annual General Meeting will be followed by a talk on Why GoA4? - It's a lot more than a signalling system. The Singapore perspective.

Singapore now has over twenty years’ experience of operating GoA4 heavy metros. The presentation will look at Singapore’s integrated land transport policy and how GoA4 operation is forms a critical part.

But what is a GoA4 system? It is not a signalling system but a highly available complete metro system with degraded mode operation driving the complexity. The presentation will then follow the day in the life of a GoA4 train looking at how the operator’s role is automated. It will consider system interfaces and how automatic degraded mode responses are designed into the system.

Maintaining and developing your competence through continuing professional development (CPD) is important at all stages of your career, to ensure that you remain competent and employable and to protect the safety of all those who use and work on railways worldwide. It is appropriate for all professional engineers and technicians, wherever they live in the world. The IRSE expects all members to maintain their own competence and help others to do so. Those who are professionally registered as Engineering Technicians, Incorporated Engineers and Chartered Engineers through the UK's Engineering Council are reminded that recording evidence of their CPD undertaken is a requirement of their professional registration. Your professional competence is your own. To maintain and develop it is your responsibility and your investment in your future career. This talk will identify good practice in terms of professional development and also how the IRSE can help.

Philip will cover a wide range of information about offshore windfarms, from the scope to how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to costs. Philip is happy for this to be an interactive session so please do feel free to ask questions throughout.

A presentation on the Bank Station Capacity Upgrade (BSCU) focussing on works to date, remaining works and envisaged benefits to customers. The presentation will focus on:

• The need for an upgrade at Bank and the scope to deliver benefits

• Some of the technical challenges

• How the works are being delivered, including focus on the 17 week Blockade

• The remaining works & programme

BSCU commenced in summer of 2013 & is now approaching completion. This presentation with give an insight to the project and an update on the ongoing works to enable completion.

On the 21st of June 21, TfL has signed 20 years concession agreement with BAI Communications Ltd to deliver Telecommunications Commercialisation Programme, which is externally funded with the investment of more than £1 billion, and also part of the bigger Mayoral vision on Connected London. Zairo Zainul will give the overview of the programme scope, the technical challenges and constraints in the introduction of the new digital infrastructures in TfL estates. Haider Gilani will cover the future capability of the new digital infrastructure to provide services to support future LU operational systems.

A presentation on Beckton Depot focussing on the upgrade of the main DLR depot in preparation for the delivery of a new fleet of trains.

• Beckton depot scope.

• Migration stages.

• Signalling scope.

• Challenges with depot delivery.

After years of negative media attention, Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure project delivered the Elizabeth line into revenue service on 24th May 2022. Despite complex interfaces and numerous technical challenges along the way the line is now carrying well over 2 million passengers per week in the central section with high levels of safety, reliability and customer satisfaction. This talk will look back at how the challenges with the Elizabeth line’s signalling systems were overcome, the path to line-opening and the early in-service experience.