Date/Time
Date(s) - 3 March 2026
9:30 am
Categories
Approximately a 5-minute walk from Witton station (around 8 minutes from Birmingham New Street)
Join the Midlands Area Council for a behind-the-scenes visit to the Birmingham Rail Resilience Hub, a specialist training and exercising facility designed to strengthen preparedness across the railway industry.
This visit will give attendees the opportunity to explore the site layout and understand how the facility is used to test, train, and exercise railway responders and incident commanders in realistic operational scenarios. On the day of our visit, the British Transport Police (BTP) firearms team will be conducting a live exercise, providing a rare opportunity to see the training environment in action and observe how multi-agency response capabilities are developed in practice.
This session offers valuable insight into resilience planning, incident command, and operational readiness across the network.
POD Sections Covered:
01: Emergency & Incident Management
Places are strictly limited for this visit.
Parking is available on site.
Please register your interest by 25th February and ensure that you are free to attend.
Please note that this is a CIRO members only event and registering for this event does not guarantee attendance. Places will be selected by a randomised draw to promote fairness, and all registrants will be contacted on 26th February.
Any questions please contact Liz Walker at events@railwayoperators.co.uk
