Newcastle University

Introduction

Steve is NewRail's Technical Director and joined in November 2009. He has 35 years of national and international rail experience, having worked for Bombardier Transportation and Hitachi.

Steve's role in NewRail is to promote and develop the future capabilities of NewRail and transportNewcastle.

Projects

• D RAIL
  Project Leader(s): Professor Mark Robinson
  D-RAIL will focus on freight traffic, identifying root causes of derailment of particular significance to freight vehicles, which have a wider range of operating parameters (as a result of the huge range in loads, speeds and maintenance quality) than...
• SecureMetro
  Project Leader(s): Dr S Ingleton
  The aim of the SecureMetro project is to increase the safety and security of metro vehicles from terrorist attacks by explosives and firebombs through materials choices and design, thereby increasing resilience and reducing the impact of attacks...

• Carruthers J, O'Neill C, Ingleton S, Robinson M, Grasso M, Roberts J, Prockat J, Simmonds G. The design and prototyping of a lightweight crashworthy rail vehicle driver's cab. In: 9th World Congress on Railway Research. 2011, Lille, France.
• Ingleton S, Found MS, Robinson AM. Composite driving end structures for rail applications. In: 5th Seminar on Experimental Techniques and Design in Composite Materials. 2002, University of Cagliari, Italy: Trans Tech Publications Ltd.
• Ingleton S, Found MS, Robinson AM. Composite driving end structures for rail rolling stock. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Composite Materials - ICCM13. 2001, Beijing, China.
• Ingleton S, Found MS, Robinson AM. Design of composite driving end structures for structural use in UK passenger rolling stock. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Fibre Reinforced Composites. 2000, Newcastle-upon-tyne: Woodhead Publishing Ltd.