{"id":59430,"date":"2025-10-21T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=59430"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:43:37","slug":"uktram-and-rail-forum-team-up-for-industry-event-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=59430","title":{"rendered":"UKTram and Rail Forum team up for industry event in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UKTram and Rail Forum, who recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their working relationship, have joined together to run a Focus on Light Rail industry event this November.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Due to take place on 5<sup>th<\/sup> November 2025 in Leeds, the event aims to provide rail supply chain organisations with a clear overview of the UK\u2019s evolving light rail landscape, highlighting current systems, new developments, and the pipeline of opportunities for track, vehicle and infrastructure innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the speakers set to appear are Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, James Hammett, UKTram Managing Director, Mark Davis, General Manager of London Trams, and Carl Williams from the LRSSB.<\/p>\n<p>James Hammett commented: \u201cEvents like this reflect the shared commitment between UKTram and Rail Forum to open up opportunities and further align our efforts to deliver better outcomes for our sector and passengers alike.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UKTram and Rail Forum, who recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their working relationship, have joined together to run a Focus on Light Rail industry event this November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59431,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59430\/revisions\/59431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}