Doc Frank chats with Victoria Winder from Brisbane, Australia. Victoria is my historically first female guest on the podcast, keeping another promise for variety of guests regarding internationality, industry experience and gender. Victoria has long-term experience in testing, commissioning and system integration of mega projects including the Victoria Line Resignalling and Crossrail in London, the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project and Brisbane Cross River Rail. The wide-ranging conversation covers the complementary effects of balancing men and women in project teams and the comparison of signalling testing with an old shoe, to name but two of the curious highlights. Enjoy!

Show notes for better understanding:

1)      Information about training courses for advanced signalling technologies that are proven to work for railway professionals regardless of their prior extent of signalling knowledge, including the CBTC Kickstarter and ETCS Kickstarter trainings, can be found on https://docfranktraining.podia.com. 

2)      Specific short-term offers include the unique live online training “Automatic Train Control and Interoperability” which will run on 28-29 March, and the free “Melbourne Signalling Strategy Challenge” which will run 3-5 April. Both trainings can be registered for on https://docfranktraining.podia.com/courses. 

3)      Otherwise, the interview is rather self-explanatory and very instructive.