Railway Conversations with Doc Frank
Authentic discussions with interesting people about railway subjects that matter.
Episodes
90 episodes
Special Episode: Innovation in Project Delivery
This Special is from the upcoming podcast episode 88 with Andy Harrison and discusses ideas how to transform project delivery methods for groundbreaking improvements. The book references in this talk relate to the project management bestseller ...
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#87 – Assurance Made Easy with Andy Petrie
Doc Frank chats with Andy Petrie from Sydney in Australia. Andy specialises in Systems Safety Assurance but what is even more exciting is his passion for “cutting the BS” in order to ensure more value for money and make the railway industry a b...
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1:11:46
Special Episode: ETCS Interoperability in Australia
This clip is part of a longer episode with Andy Petrie from Sydney in Australia which will be broadcast on Thursday 19/09/24.Interoperability of digital signalling systems is a hot topic in Australia, and I used this opportunity to boun...
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#86 – More Success Drivers for High Speed Rail with Sean Connolly
This is the second part of the conversation between Doc Frank and Sean Connolly where they talk about guiding principles and success drivers for High Speed Rail.If you missed the first part of this talk, make sure you also check out the ...
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#85 – Success Drivers for High Speed Rail with Sean Connolly
Doc Frank and Sean Connolly talk about guiding principles and success drivers for High Speed Rail that Sean postulated in his elaborate report with High Speed Rail recommendations for Australia.Show notes:1) He...
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#84 – More Than Counting Axles with Michael Thiel
Doc Frank chats with Michael Thiel from a small town in Austria near the border to Germany. Michael is the CEO of Frauscher Sensor Technology, a globally active signalling component supplier specialised in wheel sensors and axle counters. We ta...
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#83 – Moving Block and AI for German Rail with Thomas Laux
This is the second and last part of a longer conversation between Doc Frank and Thomas Laux from German Rail (DB). We keep talking about the technology ambitions of the second stage of the “Digitale Schiene Deutschland” program for the increasi...
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#82 –Digitalisation of German Rail with Thomas Laux
Doc Frank chats with Thomas Laux from Berlin in Germany. Thomas is responsible for the introduction of new technology in the second stage of the “Digitale Schiene Deutschland” ™ program. In this first part of our conversation we talk about the ...
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#81 – CBTC Fireside Chat with Mike Palmer
Doc Frank chats with Mike Palmer from Toronto in Canada. With substantial responsibilities in brownfield CBTC application for several projects in London and Toronto, Mike is ideally placed for comparing notes about dos and don’ts for introducin...
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#80 – Enhanced ETCS (from Urban Rail 2024)
In this extraordinary episode, Doc Frank reports from ETCS presentations recently given at the Urban Rail conference. Expect to hear what could well be the two most exciting ETCS projects on the planet, why Australian city railways got to choos...
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#79 – The High Costs of High Speed with Sean Connolly
In this second part of their conversation, Doc Frank and Sean Connolly discuss the correlation between top speed and construction costs for High Speed Rail. Show notes: 1) Sean’s report that is discus...
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#78 – Getting High Speed Rail Right with Sean Connolly
Doc Frank got Sean Connolly back on the show to talk about Sean’s massive 66-page report giving recommendations for High Speed Rail, and High Speed Rail Freight, in Australia.Show notes:1) Sean’s report that is...
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#77 – The Change to ETCS with Cara Cohen
Doc Frank chats with Cara Cohen from England. She is an organisational psychologist currently working as Business Change Manager supporting the introduction of the European Train Control System (ETCS) to British rail freight operator Freightlin...
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#76 – Operating a Metro with Ralph Heredia
Doc Frank chats with Ralph Heredia from Sydney in Australia. Ralph recently made the jump from a government-owned suburban rail operator to a private international operator of the future metro line to the new Western Sydney Airport.We ta...
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#75 – Views on HS2 with Andy Harrison
Doc Frank chats with a repeat guest on the show, Andy Harrison from London in England. Inevitably the discussion starts with a question about Andy’s views on the controversial High Speed 2 project, and all of a sudden this topic filled almost t...
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#74 – Rail, Maglev or Hyperloop? (Joe Langley Part 2)
This is the second part of Doc Frank’s chat with Joe Langley, Director of the Australian High Speed Rail Association. Of course there will be the technology question regarding achievable top speed to really keep up with air travel. But this epi...
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#73 – High Speed Talk with Joe Langley Part 1
Doc Frank chats with Joe Langley from somewhere between Sydney and Canberra in Australia. Joe is a director of the not-for-profit Australian High Speed Rail Association, and although he is of course an avid promoter of creating a high speed rai...
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#72 – High Speed Rail Done Right with Michael Byng
The podcast returns to the popular topic of high speed rail by Doc Frank chatting with Michael Byng from England. Michael is a quantity surveyor, is other words cost estimator, who came to fame by producing the cost estimate for the notorious H...
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#71 – Balancing Career and Family with Carina O’Brien
Doc Frank chats with Carina O'Brien from Melbourne in Australia. She is not only the Head of Strategy of a large multinational railway systems supplier, but has also initiated the Working Mumma project which includes a podcast and various other...
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#70 – Burned Out with Charles Page
This episode features some of the pre-talk with the guest interviewed in episode 69, Charles Page from Sydney in Australia. It includes important insights regarding the winning or losing of tender bids and effects on those involved, and it also...
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#69 – “Retirement 1.0” with Charles Page
Doc Frank chats with Charles Page from Sydney in Australia, until his recent first attempt of retirement the grey eminence of railway strategy in Siemens Mobility and past president of the IRSE. In a very deep conversation Charles opened up abo...
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#68 – CBTC for a Greenfield Metro with Bill Whitmore (Part 2)
This is the rest of the long-form conversation between Doc Frank and Bill Whitmore from Tel Aviv, Israel. With a view on the upcoming rollout of Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) for Tel Aviv’s three-line greenfield metro network, we di...
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1:11:02
#67 – CBTC for a Greenfield Metro with Bill Whitmore (Part 1)
This is the first part of a longer conversation between Doc Frank and Bill Whitmore who currently lives in Tel Aviv, Israel and works on the inception of a brand-new three-line metro network. The focus of this conversation is the planned rollou...
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#66 – High Speed Rail Insights with Sean T. Connolly (Part 2)
This is the second part of the conversation between Doc Frank and Sean T. Connolly, talking about his profound experience in high speed rail and how those insights could inform any plans for high speed rail in Australia or other countries.<...
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#65 – High Speed Rail Insights with Sean T. Connolly (Part 1)
This is the first part of a chat between Doc Frank and Sean T. Connolly from Malaga in Spain. Sean has long-time experience with high speed rail in Spain and various other countries and, as a native Australian, is keen to contribute to upcoming...
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