IRSE Australasia Technical Meeting and IRSE International Technical Convention
SINGAPORE and MALAYSIA
Sunday 9 October to Friday 14 October 2011
IRSE Australasia and IRSE UK will be meeting in Singapore and Malaysia in October 2011. IRSE Australasia has technical meetings throughout Australia and New Zealand, with a meeting in an Asian country every few years. This year the IRSE Australasia meeting and the IRSE International Convention will be at the same time and place.
Program (To be confirmed)
Sunday 9th October
Registration, evening reception and speeches of welcome at Swissôtel Merchant Court, Singapore, finishing at about 20.00, following which delegates and partners will be free to make their own arrangements.
Monday 10th October
Technical Conference in the morning for delegates at the Swissôtel Merchant Court. Following lunch, delegates will visit the Kim Chuan Circle Line depot. Partners will be taken on a city tour of Singapore including cultural sites and shopping opportunities. Delegates and partners will meet up in the evening for an informal supper at a Clarke Quay restaurant.
Tuesday 11th October
Delegates: morning visits to LRT. Afternoon visits to Jurong East.
Partners: Visit to Sentosa Island. The evening will be free of organised activity.
Wednesday 12th October
Depart by special train from Woodlands Train Checkpoint, which by the time of the Convention will be the southern terminus of the KTM line from Malaysia to Singapore. The train will travel to Kuala Lumpur, calling for a lunch stop, technical visits and touristic opportunities en route at Melaka. Direct transit on arrival at Kuala Lumpur to Convention hotels. Evening free.
Thursday 13th October
Delegates will travel by train to Batu Gajah to visit the new KTM central workshops, housing repair facilities and a training centre, where technical papers on Malaysian railway signalling and telecomms will be presented. Following lunch, technical visits covering the signalling, telecomms and control systems in the depot will take place, followed by return to Kuala Lumpur.
Partners will be taken on a city tour of Kuala Lumpur, including cultural sites and shopping opportunities. In the evening, partner and delegates will take cocktails and a buffet supper at one of Kuala Lumpur’s roof top restaurants.
Friday 14th October
In the morning, delegates and partners will travel by train to Batu Caves, where the partners will tour the caves, a Hindu cultural site, and delegates will inspect the technical aspects of the 13 km line from Kuala Lumpur. The partners will have a free afternoon in Kuala Lumpur, while the delegates undertake a technical visit to the Kuala Lumpur Monorail depot.
In the evening, the Convention Dinner will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Hilton Hotel.
Cost
The Fee for IRSE members is £346 per person. All delegates should note that this fee is for the whole Convention at both venues, and NO reduction can be given for people who intend to attend only part.
The fee for non-members of the IRSE is £450 per person. Non-members are very welcome to attend the convention. In the event of being oversubscribed, precedence will be given to IRSE members
Travel from Singapore to KL will be by train and is arranged as part of the convention. Delegates and partners should make their own travel arrangements should they need to travel back to Singapore to connect with international flights.
Accommodation
IRSE UK has booked a number of rooms at 2 hotels in Singapore and 2 in Kuala Lumpur, ranging in price and standard. For those who wish to avail themselves of even cheaper options, there are many more hotels available for on line booking. Please refer to the IRSE UK web site for details.
Registration
Registration is now open and can be made on the registration form available from the IRSE UK website.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 30th SEPTEMBER 2011, HOWEVER IT MAY NOT ALWAYS BE POSSIBLE FOR THE IRSE TO PROVIDE ACCOMMODATION IN THE CONVENTION HOTELS FOR BOOKINGS RECEIVED AFTER 31 AUGUST 2011.
Any enquiries concerning the Convention programme or Hotel arrangements should be directed to Roger Penny (UK travel agent) by telephone +44 1483-890531, fax +44 1483-431969, or email rwpenny@iee.org.
Younger Members
The IRSE has established a number of travelling bursaries following a generous bequest from the estate of Frank Hewlett, a past member of the Institution, and from a memorial fund established in honour of Alan Fisher, our President in 2008/9 who died in February 2009. These bursaries, of which there may be up to ten valued at up to £1000 each, will be used to support younger members from around the world to attend the International Technical Convention.
NB This is the only occasion on which the bursaries apply to an Australasian meeting so take advantage of the opportunity to get more value for your membership dollar! Contact hq@irse.org for further details.
