Institute of Rail Welding (IoRW) 15th anniversary conference held in July 2017 in York/UK
The Institute of Rail Welding (IoRW) was
founded 15 years ago by Railtrack – a group
of companies that owned the track, signalling,
tunnels, bridges, level crossings and
most of the stations of the British railway
system from 1994 until 2002 – as one of the
more positive outcomes that followed from
the shocking Hatfield train crash in the year
2000. The idea for the IoRW is attributed to
Simon Hardy, then one of Railtrack’s track
engineers and now working for the ORR.
The Institute has been a great success, and
has contributed significantly to the massive
reduction in the number of weld failures and
broken rails that has been achieved on the
Network Rail network in the interim.
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