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Date 13.02.2013

Suppliers Technical Forum - Innovation

David Pinkney

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Innovation on Thameslink

• Using new products equipment and tools to reduce costs and create efficiencies

• Often teamed with headquarters, maintenance, or another programmes

• Most have a large engineering content and the development of a new product

• Often involve product acceptance and changes to ways of working

• Need to flexible, adaptable, thinking out of box

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Example of a successful project - New CCTV technology for London Bridge

• Use of mega pixel technology to reduce the number cameras needed for London Bridge station.

• The reduction of cameras produces reductions in brackets, power, cables

• The like for like saving for the London Bridge installation is £1m (25%) but the big saving is in maintenance – circa 60%

• Project Manager’s role was to gain acceptance by the HQ CCTV group and NR Head of Security and have the standard changed

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Mobile Maintenance Unit

• The MMU is a train with a workshop, stores, messing, worker transport

• Self contained train for installation and maintenance

• Moving green zone – work force protected

• Realisation is that MMUs will radically change the way we plan and manage our site work

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Mobile Maintenance Unit

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Mobile Maintenance Unit

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Mobile Maintenance Unit – Status

• Nationally 7 units are needed (4 specifically in the south east)

• Aligning Thameslink with Kent

• In the tender process – 5 companies bidding

• Planning visits to users

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Mobile Maintenance Unit – Status Continued

• For Thameslink two extra variants

• For tunnel working -

– To reduce costs – TOC compensation, 7 day railway

– Keeping one track open while working on the other track

– Still a mobile green zone

– Expanding slides and opening side doors

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Mobile Maintenance Unit – Status Continued

• Second variant– Enables slim-line gantries to

be used

– Efficiencies in installation and maintenance

• The necessary kit is there

• Difficult bit –

– How are we going to use it?

– Define the processes

– Which variants do we need?

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Cable Management Sleepers

• Replace

– Under and Over Track Crossings

– Orange Pipes and Yellow Split Ducting

• Savings of the order 95%

• Reduce risk as the track bed is not disturbed

• Two variants product accepted

• In use across the whole of Network Rail as well as Thameslink

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Cable Management Sleepers – further work

• Modified

– Wider rebate

– Clips

– Inserts to mount third rail insulators

• Production moulds for GV54 sleeper on order

• Thameslink requirements until 2018 defined

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Cable Management Sleepers

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Negative Short Device

• The Negative Short Device will be used to improve the efficiency and safety of third rail isolations.

• Replace short circuiting straps and strap-men (can have up to 25)

• Simplifies the process considerably

• Project timescale 40 weeks

• Proposed fit NSDs to London Bridge low level

• Manual switched solution – not using SCADA

• Only 25 NSDs needed

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Increase in Work Time with NSDs

• Current situation

– Available work time 2h 30m

– Complicated

– Many phone calls

• With NSDs

– Available work time 4h 00m

– Much simpler

– Far fewer phone calls

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PICOP

Signaller

Protection Staff

ECRO

Engineering

Supervisor

Worksite Staff

COSS

-

PICOP'

Worksite Staff'

Engineering Staff'

ECRO'

COSS

00:10PICOP

requests possession

Signaller protects

possession

00:15PICOP

insructs PS to place PLB

PS#1

00:20PLB in place

x4

Confirms PLB in place

00:21Grants

possession

Requests Isolation

00:30Circuit breaker only - grants

isolation - with NSD applied

Requests to set up

worksite and test traction

circuit

Instructs to erect MB and possition SCS

#1

00:35Confirm SCS

and MB in place

Authorises the issue of

CRP

Issues CRP to COSS x 20?

Confirm SCS and MB in place #1

Circuit Breaker Isolation

Sub-section CB1

Value Adding WorkFrom 00:40 to 04:45

4 hours

04:45Returns CRP

04:48Marker boards

removed

04:47Confirms

removal of Marker Boards

04:50Request

recharge of traction current

04:53Confirm traction

current on

04:54Request

handback of the

possession

04:55Instructs

removal of PLBs

04:56Confirm

removal of PLBs

05:00Hands back possession

Signaller takes back possession

04:46Remove

marker boards

Communication Chain for Isolations using Negative Short Devices

Circuit Breaker Isolation

Sub-section CB1

Value Adding WorkFrom 01:15 to 03:45

2:30 hours

Existing Communication Chain for Isolations

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NSD Savings

• Reduction in resource needed over 2 years = £840k

• Reduced communication over 2 years, 208 hours = 52 extra shifts

• Not cancelling the first and last trains over 3 years = £300k

• Reduction in risk

– Reduced requirement for line blockages

– Less staff on the infrastructure

– Reduced involvement from interface stakeholders

– No strapping in the wrong area

– Reduced communications

– Reduced staff on track / less chance of injury

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Snow displacer

• Very simple, inexpensive length of foam that sits in the point ends

• Stops snow (anything else) from entering and jamming the points

• Saves delay minutes

• Saves energy (30%) by insulating the point heaters

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Snow displacer installation

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Snow displacer – status

• Thameslink is part of the national programme

• Trial underway at Hither Green

• Further work –

– Develop a version for the very narrow end of the points

– Arrange for points to be automatically fitted to the points at the factory

– ‘Productionise’ the existing snow displacer for easier fitting

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Electro-luminescent PPE

• Worked very closely with the suppler Fhoss to complete final development

• Thameslink Route Access Team is testing 10 sets of PPE

• Battery life 12 hours

• A worker can be seen 1 ½ miles down the track

• Compliant with Rail Standards

• Additional cost is not significant

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Pavegen – electrical energy from foot falls

• Sustainable renewable energy

• Floor tiles form the green area in the ‘mock up’ photo

• Hopefully drive assets such as destination boards

• Trial site in the station to be set up

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CCTV Scanning of Pantographs

• A damaged pantograph or shoe can cause much damage to the infrastructure and very many delay minutes

• Even more when we are at 24 trains per hour

• CCTV scanning will allow damaged trains to be sidelined before they enter the Thameslink central core

• An installation at Farringdon will check that the pantograph is down as the train travels south into the third rail area

• Probably the trial site will be at Farringdon

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A camera installation showing the housing containing the radar, flash and camera

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CCTV Scanning of Pantographs

A drawing of a typical installation in the Nederlands

Balise Bars

• Can be used for Balise Bars from Siemens, Alstrom and others

• Can be fitted or removed in less than 2 minutes using standard tools

• Use standard rail fittings so no drilling or digging out the ballast

AWS magnets

• Ordinary ferrite magnets –

– Lose strength due to interference in third rail areas

– Bulky heavy

–  Require frequent maintenance or rebuilding

• Vortok - Rare Earth Magnets

– With an opposing coil and digital control electronics

– Smaller and Lighter

– Little or no loss of strength

– Plug coupled so quick to fit

Innovation on Thameslink

• Not just be confined to Network Rail

• Surely our partners have innovations as well

• Example – Invensys use the IBM Rational tool provides platform for integrating and synchronizing product development processes

• The need - Invensys Rail Dimetronic needed to improve its competitiveness and reduce time-to-market for its solutions. This required automating, streamlining and increasing control over development processes.

• The solution The company used integrated IBM® Rational® software to automate code generation and speed developers' response to frequent changes and new traffic signal requirements.

• The benefit The company reduces time-to-market for products by 40 percent and reduces cost and risks of development by generating all code in compliance with coding standards.

• This case study has been published by IBM

• Please tell me of your innovations on Thameslink

• Are there opportunities for partnering?

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