Groves Systems Ltd - Railway Signal Engineering

Jonathan Groves is the Managing Director of Groves Systems Ltd.. We are currently a small business providing railway signalling consultancy services - but looking to expand to help fill the tremendous demand the industry has for responsible engineers today...

We have access to a broad spectrum of engineers - but see below for details of Jonathan Groves and his experience.

Jonathan is a bilingual French and English speaker who has had 25 years of experience working in the railway signalling industry. He has worked for the following companies :-

While supporting these functions, Grves Systems have been involved in most aspects (no pun intended!) of the British S&T industry. Our work experience is shown below:

British Railways - see Network Rail
Installation, Testing and Commissioning of Relay Room and Trackside Equipment for British Rail (Southern Region Minor Works at Hither Green and later Faversham) 1981 - 1983:
50Hz AC track circuits, HW Point Machines, M63 Point Machines, Clamplock heaters, ML Signals, Location Case Wiring, WestPack IV Relay Room wiring, Silec Treadles, "Freddie" Treadle, Signal Post Telephones, Points Telephones, Level Crossing Telephones, Orange Pipes and "L" Brackets, Block Bell Circuits, Block Instrument Circuits, Impedance Bonds, AWS Magnets and Inductors, Banner Repeater Signals (electro-mechanical and fibre), Cliff-fall Detection Circuits and Cabling
British Railways - see Network Rail
Faulting and Maintenance of Relay Room, Signal Box and Trackside Equipment for British Rail Network South East (Shift F&M at Sittingbourne) 1985 - 1986:
As above, plus Level Crossing Barriers, FDM and Bridge Detection Circuits
Docklands Light Railway
Faulting and Maintenance of Equipment Room, Control Centre, Trackside and Trainborne Automatic Signalling and Telecomms Equipment (and also Automatic Fare Collection) for Docklands Light Railway 1988 - 1989
GEC-Alsthom ATP System (trackside and trainborne), ATO System (trackside and trainborne), ATS System (central and remote), SSI, Thorn EMI AFC, Storno Radio, SCADA, Plessey CCTV, PA and Passenger Alarm
Docklands Light Railway
Management and Supervision of Technicians engaged as shown above for DLR 1989 - 1990
Docklands Light Railway
Audit and Design Approval of New Signalling Assets, Test Witnessing and Design Works for DLR 1990 - 1992
SelTrac Moving-Block System (trackside, central, remote and trainborne), B90 and B92 Rolling Stock
Alcatel Canada
Management of a Team of Technicians Commissioning Trainborne VOBC moving-block systems for SELTRAC (Alcatel Canada) 1992 - 1993
Version Control, Type Testing, Commissioning Testing, Control of Hardware Modifications, Guideway Correspondance Testing and Faultfinding Trainborne and Trackside Equipment
EurotunnelTransmanche Link - see Eurotunnel
Management and Test Witnessing of a Team of up to 20 French Technicians Installing TVM430 Signalling for the Channel Tunnel including Acceptance of Assets on behalf of Eurotunnel (TML) 1993 - 1994
CSEE, Sofrerail TVM430, MINTEX, SIAM, NS1, UM71, BSP, VCC, Paulvé, RTM, TCO, SNTI, SNCIT, Markers, Cabling
Docklands Light Railway
Approval of Designs and Test Submittals from Resignalling Sub-Contractor (DLR) 1994 - 1994
London Underground Ltd (LUL)
Creation of Designs, Software and Installation Specifications for New Dot Matrix Train Description and Passenger Information Systems. Liaising with Sub-Contractors and Drawing Office (LUL-Electronics Systems) 1994 - 1995
BVM ATS Modems, VME-bus Computers (PIMS units), Telecomms Links, Passenger Information Systems and Nematron Keypad Programming
Railtrack - see Network Rail
Co-ordination across Railtrack Zonal Boundaries of Installation and Testing Activities associated with the EPS Beyond London Project (Railtrack MPD-EA) 1995 - 1996
Eurostar Class 373/2, Various British Track Circuits and Catenary Systems
London Underground Ltd (LUL)
Analysis of ATP Reliability, Commissioning Support, Test Train Management, Debugging and Acceptance of ATO Software, FAT Testing and Data Approval (LUL/BCV CLPT) 1996 - 2002
Westinghouse Westrace, ATP, ATO, PLC, PAC, Loops, FS2600, TI9995 Assembler, VB6
Rail Link Engineering (RLE) - no link!
Amey Rail
Project Engineering for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Project. Responsible for the Cheriton Control Area and Eurotunnel - complex technical, physical and procedural interfaces between Eurotunnel, CTRL and Railtrack.(Amey Rail Ltd) 2002 - 2003
CSEE TVM430, ICTS, NS1, UM71, BSP(=ITL), VCC, Paulvé, RTM, TCO, SNTI, SNCIT, Markers, Cabling, Civils

DLR
AMEC

Systems Engineering for the DLR City Airport Extension Project. Responsible for management of the installation, testing and commissioning of all ATC (Signalling), Telecomms, Permanent Way, Traction Supply, etc. 2003-2005.
Alcatel SelTrac, fibre optic-based telecommunications backbone and nodes, radio, track, third rail traction supply, SCADA, telephones, passenger alarm, lift alarm, ticket machines (TVMs), CCTV etc

London Underground Ltd (LUL)
Capitol Projects

Consultant engaged part-time to review and comment upon various documents forming part of the whitecity Development design and planning packages.2004-2005.
Scheme Plan, Customer Design Specification, Compliance Submission, Management Plans etc, Contracts, Programmes etc

London Underground Ltd (LUL)


Multiplex

Signalling Delivery Management for the whitecity Development for Multiplex. Responsibility for the delivery of the signalling systems for the new sub-surface White City Sidings beneath the new shopping centre. 2005-2006.
Westinghouse M63 points, FS2500 track circuits, DTAC systems, Fixed Red Lights, Shunt Signals, Sidings Display Units, Route Indicators, Track Circuit Interruptors, WESTRace equipment, MCT (Maintainers Control Terminal), ELCP (Emergency Local Control Panel), Q-Style Relay Equipment, Power Supply Equipment and UPS, other miscellaneous SER-based equipment, and interface to the Control Centre at Wood Lane.
DLR
AMEC Spie
Signalling Design Checking for the Docklands Light Railway Woolwich Arsenal Extension for AMEC Spie Rail. Checking, from the bottom upwards, of the Alcatel SELTrac Preliminary and Final Design Package. Attendance at Final Design Review meeting in Toronto to present results of review. 2005-2006
Alcatel SELTrac, VCC, Guideway List, SMC, SCS, ACE, FID, PID, PIDC, PolNET, LineAmp

Engineering Management for the JNUP Project for Mouchel Parkman Rail. Responsibility for delivery of £53M resignalling contract for the Jubilee and Northern Lines of the London Underground. 12 Project Engineers and associated support staff.
2006 - Present

SELTrac S40 moving-block signalling system and associated equipment.

 

Please contact us if you would like to have access to these, or similar, skills for your signalling project - even for a single day!.

Thank You.

Contact Details:

Jonathan Groves MIET MBCS MIEEE
Mobile: 07970 468354
Skype: 0208 123 1379 (C15JON)
Fax: 07970 682158

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