Chris Edwards - Senior Consultant - Railway Safety Management and Signalling
| Name: | Chris Edwards | 
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| Nationality: | British | |
| Specialisation: | Command Control and Railway Signalling |
Qualifications
A Chartered Electrical Engineer with more than 30yrs railway experience at the senior and executive management levels with British Railways in the design, engineering, application, maintenance and Project management of Signalling and Telecommunications systems.
Activities have included project management of multi-functional development projects of both the technical led and the operational led varieties in both the UK and with the EC in Europe .
Safety Management is a key element of such work and the experience gained in this area has been utilised, not only as an integral part of the projects, but also in the development of Railway Safety Standards and the preparation of EuroNorms.
Key Achievements
• Consultant Systems Engineer on the West Coast Resignalling project providing Systems Engineering support on formal requirements management.
• Consultant Safety Manager Systems Engineering Group working on the Thameslink 2000 project.
• UKAS Technical Specialist for the assessment of Notified Bodies for the harmonisation of the trans-European high speed rail system (Command, Control and Signalling aspects).
• Managing the testing and evaluation programme of the European APOLO Project.
• Project Manager for the European Interoperability Project HEROE.
• Quality, Safety and Technical Manager for WCML Development System Design.
• Technical specialist on CENELEC working Groups.
• Member of BSI UK Management Team for CENELEC.
• Safety Standards Manager British Railways Board.
• Engineering Development Manager for Automatic Train Protection Development and EMC problems with Traction/Signalling systems interface.
• Project Engineer for IECC Development and roll-out programme.
• Engineering Standards Manager for BR ancillary Signalling systems.
• Project Manager for procurement and installation of a number of train control and information systems.
Qualifications
| BSc (Hons)
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Applied Physics UWIST Cardiff |
FIET |
Fellow Institution of Engineering and Technology |
MIRSE |
Member of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers |
Publications
"Safety Assurance in the Management of Change" (Railway Group Standard RC6605)
Various Railway Standards and Codes of Practice (not normally available in the public domain)
Also, Joint Author of CENELEC Norms:
EN50126;
EN50127;
EN50128;
EN50129.