b'BRAND UPDATEIntroducing Kelly Rails Newly Appointed Senior Leadership Team IstartedmyjourneywithKellyRailinJanuaryconstruction areas. We start with a small team of 2022 as Regional Operations Director and have4-5 engineers; however, I believe it will very quickly Neilthoroughly enjoyed my first 6 months. I previouslygrow to 10-15 as the project goes on.worked for the same company for over 30 years, Shearwood so I was slightly nervous to start afresh with a newK elly Rail is gaining momentum, we team within a different office environment, but it Rail Operations Directorwas all for nothing. The rail team have been great,had projects already in place before I (South) everyone was extremely welcoming and supporting. I like to think businesses within our industry gojoined such as a new lock installation through changes every 8-10 years, our businessproject on REBs completing focus changed which resulted in a number of new starters joining usseeing how far our team camemobilisation across the nation.and the growth process over the past 6 months is I started my career journey within the rail industryexciting and I am looking forward to seeing what we in 1989 working on an important project at Marbleaccomplish together.My goals for the next 6 months are to focus on Arch Station; just a year following the infamousour current projects, deliver all the above to the Kings Cross Station fire. Within my role, I currently focus on developinghighest standards ensuring we get repeat business projects in the South of England, hoping to buildfrom these clients while maintaining our health and In its 124-year history, there had never been a massa successful partnership with Transport for Londonsafety records, as this is extremely important for us loss of life in a fire on the London Underground.and their respective associates. Kelly Rail has justwithin this development stage.But on 18 November 1987 that would change, as areceived their first order from TFL for a project flashover - a sudden and rapid spread of fire causedtocompleteCRMSworkswhichgiveustheItwasapleasuretotakepartinKellyGroups by smoke or fumes igniting - claimed the lives of 31opportunitytoproveourselvesandamplifytheCharity Football Tournament in Aid of Shelter in people at Kings Cross. The fire, which had begunbrand in the Southern area. May this year. I had a lot of fun getting to know beneath Escalator Four around a quarter of ancolleagues from across the countrybut sadly hour earlier, at about 19:30 GMT, is suspectedmust admit my days of playing football are over; I to have been caused by a match discarded by awill be watching from the sidelines next time!passenger. Although smoking had been banned in all subsurface stations since a fire at Oxford Circus in 1984, people often lit cigarettes on their way up the escalators on their way out of the station. - BBCOne of TFLs associates is Cubic, where I managed toreignitepreviousbusinessrelationshipswithin the company and arrange to start a smaller project with them at the beginning of June.I am also a big Liverpool fan; I was 3-4 when I first attended a match with my father and brother. I Another exciting project will commence at Leedsremember it was around 1972 and we were playing station; our engineers will be on-site within the firstCoventryinAnfield,mid-weekbecauseofthe week of July.power cuts. When I became a father, I couldnt Afterathoroughinvestigation,TFLstrivetotravel as much anymore however, I always held a improve safety across the London Underground byseason ticket. This season was positive, weve done removing all wooden escalators and implementingexceptionally well, especially considering the fact afiredetectionandsuppressionsystemonallthat Liverpool played in every single game possible.escalatorsthis project was ongoing for the nextA fun fact about myself is that I used to play bass four years.guitar in a band called The Text between the age Duringthistime,Iworkedasacommissioningof 16 -19. Back then, we didnt have text messages engineer on the fire alarm systems and throughoutand interestingly it was the drummers dad who the years I worked my way up to site management,came up with the name. We played modern music project management, construction management,at the time and had a singer, guitarist, bassist, and andseniorprojectmanager.IwasappointedThis project will focus on a tag and trace works.drummer. Our influences included U2, and a local ManagingDirectoroftheRailDepartmentinLeeds station is due for a 10-year upgrade projectband called Blue Nose B, who went on to do a 2010 and worked within the role until 2019. and Bam has developed plans that they will executelittle better than we did! We played a few gigs; the over the next 6 years. It is our teams responsibilitybiggest was playing to an audience of 1200 people We started working on building a successful railto provide information to BAM Nuttall about where- the band also had the opportunity to perform at departmentin1989atmypreviouscompany,servicesandequipmentarerunningthroughoutlocal festivals.bysuccessfullycompletingaprojectinvolvingthestation-suchaslighting,detection,air temporarypowerdistributionworksatCanaryconditioning, telecoms, and data. By identifying all Wharf station. By 2012-13 we were responsible forexisting services and putting them on a site map, technical services across all London Undergroundonce Bam commences construction works, they stations and depots. will be able to utilise our maps to identify potential The Networker Spring 2022 19.'