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• UIC Safety Platform Steering Group meeting held on 27 March 2019 in Paris

  9 April — from eNews Nr 641 - , Safety, Europe, Level Crossings, Digital , Reporting, IRS, Gender parity
  from eNews Nr 641 - The UIC Safety Platform Steering Group met at UIC headquarters in Paris on 27 March in order to discuss the latest developments pertaining to railway safety and to present safety innovations within the participants' respective companies. Mr Rolf Härdi, CTO of Deutsche Bahn (...)

• 21st European Level Crossing Forum (ELCF) Plenary Meeting held on 26 March 2019 in Paris

  2 April — from eNews Nr 640 - , Safety, Level Crossings, ILCAD, Reporting, SAFER-LC, Awareness
  from eNews Nr 640 - The meeting was attended by 46 people from 16 different countries including USA and Australia as well as 15 speakers following the UIC Workshop on “Trespassing and suicide prevention” held on 25 March. Jeroen Nederlof, ProRail, also Chairman of ELCF welcome all participants (...)

• UIC Workshop on Rail Suicide and Trespass Prevention held on 25 March 2019 in Paris

  2 April — from eNews Nr 640 - , Safety, Security, Europe, RESTRAIL, Reporting, SAFER-LC
  from eNews Nr 640 - This workshop was organised at UIC members' request to follow up on the results of project RESTRAIL (REduction of Suicides and Trespasses on RAILway property). This EU research project (http://www.restrail.eu/) was coordinated by the UIC Security Division and ended in 2014. (...)

• UIC High-Speed Days held on 14 and 15 February 2019

  19 February — from eNews Nr 634 - , High-Speed, Safety, Security, Passenger, Sustainable development, Rail System, Reporting, Promoting
  from eNews Nr 634 - On 14 and 15 February 2019, the UIC Passenger Department held two “open days” at UIC headquarters dedicated to the topic of High-Speed. The aim of the event, organised for UIC staff, was to give an overview of the key issues relating to high-speed rail and UIC's role in this (...)

• SETRAG carries out a full-scale emergency exercise in the middle of the Gabonese rainforest

  19 February — from eNews Nr 634 - , Safety, Security, Africa, Reporting, Crisis Management
  from eNews Nr 634 - “During the night of Saturday 26/Sunday 27 January 2019, at around four in the morning, the Omnibus 532 train travelling from Franceville to Libreville stopped in the middle of the block section (km 390 + 600) following a fire in the traction unit, with flames spreading (...)

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