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What does the Rubik’s cube teach us about innovation? Watch to find out more. https://lnkd.in/eRx_DAm2

Opportunity from Innovate UK and EPSRC to explore how quantum use cases could deliver for transport. GBRX team member James Bevan is supporting applicants interested in rail use cases – bringing sector context and strategic input. See more detail below 👇

Rail Minister Peter, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill opened the inaugural meeting of GBRX’s AI Advisory Council setting out the government’s ambitions for how artificial intelligence will play an important part in improving how the railway works for people and creating more sustainable high skilled jobs for the future. The inaugural meeting marks the beginning of the shaping phase of the AI Action Plan for Rail following extensive sector engagement, due to be published later in 2025. GRBX AI Council members Dr Catriona Campbell MBE, Hon Doc, Dr. Laura Gilbert CBE, Shannon Vallor, Dr. Neda Naghshbandi and Helen Milner OBE In attendance at the meeting: Jeremy Westlake, Alex Hynes, Toufic Machnouk, Sam Rose OBE, Arlene H. and Adam Lowery. We were also joined online by Laura Shoaf, CBE and Richard Goodman Read the full article here:

Preconceptions are everything. They are a natural part of our existence. And I think it’s fair to say that mine this week were completely wrong. I’ve had a busy week, covering just shy of 700 miles by train, with 2 days in London (at conferences by GBRX and Network Rail) and 1 in York (with everyone RTT). Going into this week I didn’t have much expectation of the GBRX event on AI. I was wrong - it felt like a very interesting and, more importantly, inclusive event. I have more faith that the industry is more likely to do “the right thing” with AI (whatever that actually is, and I’m a fairly big sceptic of it in rail) than I did before. Moving to today’s open data event - last year was great. Felt like there was momentum. This year felt like, unfortunately, the same content largely being rehashed and the same thing being said again. There were a few positive highlights - including the announcement of public release of Gemini* finally - but with my hat on as a “builder of things” I don’t think there was much for us. I have no doubt that others will have a different view depending on which side of the fence they sit on. With my hat on as “consultant” helping and giving advice to industry there was much more to take away. * the journey of Gemini has been interesting. As RTT, we first gained access to that in June 2020 for an emergency project in Covid and spent a long time trying to identify its flaws, issues and highlighted a few that mostly got resolved. With its release on RDM, I have to consider a choice as to whether we finally join it to consume that data. I have some fairly strongly held views that’s made me not join until now - but it would fill some obvious gaps despite my significant misgivings. If you have thoughts, please comment below.

Sharing to suppliers across our network to get involved. IPDR - Industry Partnership for Digital Rail team has launched a Pre-Market Engagement for the Locomotive ETCS Fitment Framework. 📄 Notice is live now: 2025/S 000-056346 🗓️ Register interest by 30 Sept to join the supplier session on 2 Oct More information 👇

At Technology in Rail 2025, our Managing Director Toufic Machnouk opened the event with a keynote on the realities of technology adoption in rail and why solving for it requires more than just good ideas.    In Part Two, he shares how GBRX is building the strategic innovation capability needed to move from diagnosis to delivery, including frameworks for adoption in areas like AI and digital railway. Watch both parts and read the full article on the GBRX page

At Rail Technology Magazine's 'Technology in Rail 2025', our Managing Director Toufic Machnouk opened the event with a keynote on the realities of technology adoption in rail and why solving for it requires more than just good ideas. In Part One, he sets out the deep structural challenges: inertia, complexity, and fragmentation.    In Part Two, he shares how GBRX is building the strategic innovation capability needed to move from diagnosis to delivery, including frameworks for adoption in areas like AI and digital railway. Watch both parts and read the full article on the GBRX page

Signalling technology was invented because the very thing that made it possible to move large and heavy objects efficiently at high speed, metal wheels on metal rails, meant that they take a long distance to stop. So, the operators of these machines needed to see beyond their horizon of sight to maintain a safe distance. There was only one way of doing that in the 19th century, fixed infrastructure distributed on the ground that gave advance warning of what was ahead. But in the 21st, there is an obvious and superior way, and that is to communicate directly with the train through digital signalling. This is the foundation of the next generation railway. Not only does it optimise for the capability of the physical assets of the train and the infrastructure by removing the artificial constraints of sighting signals, it also means there is less stuff to build and maintain, improving how the railway works for people, and reducing its cost over time. But how do you go about transitioning a vast and varied national network to digital signalling and create the market, knowledge, and experience to do so? Transport authorities and governments around the world have come to talk to us about our digital signalling masterplan, which explains how we are going about this momentous task. In this short film, Toufic Machnouk, Managing Director, GBRX, explains what it is. In the year of Railway 200, we celebrate the pioneers of the past who invented the technologies that made the railway possible and changed the world, and we recognise the pioneers of our time advancing the adoption of the technologies that improve how the system works for people. #Railway #Technology #Pioneers #DigitalRailway #DigitalSignalling #Railway200