b'BRAND UPDATEIntroducing Kelly Rails Newly Appointed Senior Leadership Team and electrification works on the Borders RailwayTheprojectscopeinsummaryinvolvesthe Line in Edinburgh. This is an ongoing project for ourinstallation of replacement and additional CCTV Alirail department, and we were delighted to win thecoveragetoselectedstations.Thiswillinvolve Fegan contract continuing our support for their PhaseinstallinganewCat6cableutilizingexisting B. The tram line will be extended, as far as Leithcontainment,wherepossibleandinstallingand Rail Operations Directorsupporting Scotlands decarbonisation project, byreplacing an agreed number of cameras to afford (North) further expanding the light railway into suburbantherequiredcoveragetoallowanti-trespassing areas around Edinburgh. The vision of ECC is toanalyticsandhighlightingpotentiallyvulnerable electrify the whole city, which may result in thepeople on or near the line. These analytics will be introduction of congestion charge tolls, as well asa bespoke set up for each of the different stations the new electric rail. enabling their local team to be notified of antisocial T his recent retail comms project isand suicidal behaviour on their platforms.This innovative project is a great opportunity for I joined Kelly Group 28 years ago as a telecomsthe perfect opportunity for Kelly RailKelly Rail to amplify areas that we have strength installation engineer in Edinburgh working on theto further drive the diversificationinandhighlightourwiderangeofskillsetand FTN(FixedTelecomsNetwork)projectrunningdisciplines within the rail industry.As a business, fibreandcopperfortheirnewnetwork.Thisof the business and strengthen ourwe have to keep up with changes within the industry companywasamongthemultipleindependentand move forward as the world moves on. My goal internetserviceprovidersthatlatermergedtoreputation as the market leader inwithin this new role is to ensure that we can do become Virgin Media. Throughout these years Idelivering retail comms to the railthis successfully and we continue to deliver our gained experience in a variety of roles including,projects on time and within budget in the safest a supervisory position looking after MDUs and aindustry. way possible all while strengthening our reputation regional manager role for Glasgow, Edinburgh, andas a multidisciplinary principal contractor within Manchester. Following 8 years with the Group, ICCTV,mediainstallationsandmaintenancethe UK rail industry.moved to Kelly Rail, where Ive been working everare known to be our strengths and the current since. electrificationworksspeakvolumesaboutourAfunfactaboutmyselfisthatIamahuge diverse skillset.supporter of the National Scottish football team The first Kelly Rail project I worked on was theand Ive travelled all over Europe following their migrationworksforNRTDirectandNetworkKelly Rail has also installed electric vehicle chargejourney. Rail. Throughout my tenure, Ive worked on manypoints within stations across Scotland. We recently projects, however, the one that stands out to mecompletedKintorestation,whichwasamajor themost,wasthenewsignallingworksforthestation upgrade. Channel Tunnel Rail Link, which was successfully completed. My traveling days with the Scottish team have sadly come to end due to the arrival of my wonderful granddaughter 2 years ago, who I love spending Kintorerailwaystationwasoriginallyopenedinmost of my free time with. 1854andclosedin1964.ThemodernKintore Soon after this, I moved to Portsmouth and laterStation was recently reopened on a different site worked in Colchester on a re-signalling contract in 2020, where we have installed 24 EV charging this marked the end of my work in South England. podiums and installed a battery backup for the station, meaning if there is a power cut this battery 13 years ago, I moved back up to Glasgow andcan operate the station until power is restored. It started working on Kelly Rails BT Sunset nationwideis a new trend for local councils to move back to contract for NRT Direct and Network Rail, whichthese stations extending the reach of the Scottish was my main focus alongside other projects. Railway.My current responsibilities asRegional OperationsKelly Rail used to have some presence in Northern Directorincludemanagingseveralhigh-levelIrelands rail industry, and we were delighted to clients; I work closely with our two senior projectreturn to this relatively new territory for a project managers.involving civils, fibre and copper telecoms works for Translink.DuetoouroutstandingpartnershipwithBAMItwasgreattoseeaKellyRailfootballteam Nuttall,KellyRailhasbeeninvolvedinaretailAnotherinterestingprojectthatIamcurrentlyparticipatingintheGroupscharityfootball and comms project working at the new Invernessworking on, is a contract award of a new CCTVtournament. Unfortunately, I was on holiday, and AirportDalcross Station.Scheme across 59 Stations within the ScotlandI couldnt participate alongside my colleagues. They Region with our trusted partner Johnson Controls. played like Scotlands National Teamthey just I am also proud of our involvement with Siemens Raildidnt get it!18 .The Networker Spring 2022'