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May 2024
Kiltimagh Velorail – a railbike experience unique in these islandsBOOK NOW
23/05/2024 18:00:00 - 23/05/2024 19:00:00

When: 23 May 2024, 18:00 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Joe Kelly of the Velorail team.

Across much of Europe from France to Norway, disused railways have been converted to velorails where customers can pedal their way in rail-mounted vehicles to enjoy the passing countryside. This had never happened in Britain or Ireland until the Mayo community of Kiltimagh took the initiative. Their railway which once liked Claremorris with Sligo had been closed to passengers in 1963 and to all traffic in 1975, but unusually the mothballed rails remained intact, and in the face of opposition from people who wanted them lifted to make way for a conventional trail or road the promoters were able to gain permission from Irish Rail to use the section of track stretching 9 km either side of Kiltimagh. Much work had to be done in clearing and repairing the track, perfecting the road crossings and the station area. Funding was from public funds from the Department of Rural and Community Development through Mayo County Council and through the LEADER programme via Mayo LAG and South West Mayo Development Company CLG matched with support from project partners Mayo County Council and IRD Kiltimagh CLG. The velorail opened in June 2023 with 4 and 5-seater vehicles, and offers an experience unique in these islands which promotes active travel while preserving the integrity of the route.

Booking for Members-FREE
To book scroll to the bottom of this page, tick the T & C's box and click Book on event, if you have any difficulties email us at regions@ciltuk.org.uk quoting event code: SR0545 with your Full name, title and company and we will book your place for you.

Booking for Non Members - £5.00 inc. VAT
To book scroll to the bottom of this page, tick the T & C's box and click Book on event, if you have any difficulties email us at regions@ciltuk.org.uk quoting event code: SR0545 with your Full name, title and company and we will book your place for you.

Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk


Competencies:

  • TP1.1 Transport Infrastructure and Network Resilience
  • TP2.1 Policy Planning for Transport
  • TP2.2 Transport and Spatial Planning
September 2024
The Year of WarehousingBOOK NOW
24/09/2024 18:00:00 - 24/09/2024 19:00:00

 

When: 24 September 2024, 18:00 - 19:00
Where:
Edinburgh Business School (EBS) Building, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. EH14 4AS
Speaker: Clare Bottle, chief executive , the UK Warehousing Association

Clare Bottle is CEO since 2021 of the UK Warehousing Association and Vice-Chair of Women in Logistics UK, which she co-founded 15 years ago with Ruth Wareing during a career that has taken her through the chemicals, construction and food & drink sectors.  Her strategic leadership experience stems from varied board-level involvement at CILT, Transaid and chairing a school board. At UKWA, which she joined from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, she has pursued an agenda of economic, social and environmental sustainability, as well as driving diversity and inclusion. At the 2023 CILT Awards for Excellence, Clare won the prestigious Sir Robert Lawrence Award, which recognises the lifetime achievement of an individual, for their outstanding and sustained contribution to the profession of logistics and transport. The Year of Warehousing is a high pro-file, year-long campaign to highlight the critical role of warehousing in supply chains, the sector’s major contribution to the UK economy, the essential employment of 1m people, and the key role it is set to play in embracing solar power to achieve UK’s net zero goals. It coincides with the 80th anniversary of the Association’s inception in 1944, and includes an ambitious programme of 80 site visits across the UK by Clare, whose aim is to showcase the high tech, fast-moving working environ-ments inside UK’s warehouses.


Booking for Members-Non-Members FREE

To book scroll to the bottom of this page, tick the T & C's box and click Book on event, if you have any difficulties email us at regions@ciltuk.org.uk quoting event code: SR0546 with your Full name, title and company and we will book your place for you.

Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk

Competencies:

  • SC1.1 Supply Chain Networks, Design and Optimisation
  • LE1.1 Leadership, Organisational Culture and Change Management
  • DT2.1 Technology, Automation and Innovation


November 2024
Visit to the transport treasures at the National Museum of ScotlandBOOK NOW
16/11/2024 11:00:00 - 16/11/2024 16:30:00

 

When: 16 November 2024, 10:30 (to start) 11:00 - 16:30
Where: National Museum of Scotland, EH1 1JF 

This event is self-guided, led by John Yellowlees

Heading up to Wylam Dilly which is the second-oldest surviving railway locomotive in the world, you’ll be in the Science and Technology galleries by the Argyll car, and the Stewart F1 cars, and a model of a marine Scotch boiler. If you go up one floor you’ll come to the bicycles and motorbikes, plus the ship models and aero engines, including the Wright Brother’s engine, propellers etc, and throughout that space are five aircraft from Pilcher’s hawk at the top to the Piper Tomahawk nearer the ground.

In the Museum of Scotland building is a sedan chair and the oldest road vehicle which is actually a horse-drawn hearse that is believed to have carried Burns’ mother. On the top floor in that building, in the ‘Scotland a changing nation’ gallery, you’ll find much more about the shipbuilding and car building industries, including a Hillman Imp, plus some airline models relating to post-war air travel. There’s also Graham Obree’s bicycle and various sports-related transport (mostly motor racing) in the Sporting Hall of Heroes.

If you are in the Grand Gallery and go through past the Millennium clock you’ll come to more Scottish-built bicycles and some off-road motorcycles. Finally, on the wall in the Grand Gallery, the display called ‘Window on the World’ has various transport related items. As well as the BR totems and the signals there is the Joe Potts car, the gyroplane, the quadruplet bicycle, plus various loco models most of which work on timers. 

Booking for Members & Non-Members - FREE (Donations can be made)


To book scroll to the bottom of this page, tick the T & C's box and click Book on event, if you have any difficulties email us at regions@ciltuk.org.uk quoting event code: SR0547 with your Full name, title and company and we will book your place for you.

Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk


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