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:
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Management and Supervision of Technicians engaged as shown above for DLR 1989 - 1990 | |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Approval of Designs and Test Submittals from Resignalling Sub-Contractor (DLR) 1994 - 1994 | |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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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. 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.
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Contact Details: Jonathan Groves
MIET MBCS MIEEE |
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