Doc Frank chats with Venkata K Haranadh Marra from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, who entered the railway signalling industry only six years ago but has since built an impressive international career in maintenance, testing and commissioning for CBTC and ETCS technology. This conversation will be of great interest to anyone seeking career advice for joining the railway industry, demonstrating that CBTC and ETCS are not to be afraid of.

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)      Venkata worked on a Thales CBTC in Grade of Automation (GoA) 2 in Hyderabad and another Thales CBTC in GoA 4 (unattended train operation) in Dubai. He talks quite a bit about the comparison of those two systems.

In 2020, Dubai hosted the Expo exhibition which was also the target date for an extension of the metro network there.