The RailStaff Awards 2024

Stephen Gwilt

Said the following about Elizabeth Morris:

“Liz is the section planner/Admin for the rail management engineer S&D Depot

Liz helps to plan the work and access for Welding Staff Grinding staff Lubrication staff ultrasonic staff and Plain line & S&C grinding trains. And she also looks after 4 managers no small task in itself, and whenever they ask for a job or task to be done nothing is too much trouble for Liz. She also finds time to arrange a depot cake making day each year to raise money for cancer research. Last year raised £400 pounds.

She deserves recognition for always going above and beyond in any task/job. On one occasion, when the line managers had gone home and timescale defects ( 36hr switch blade defects ) had come into the office from the P/way inspection team on a Fridays afternoon for a failed switch blade at Coventry Liz showed great attitude and leadership she worked over voluntary (not paid overtime) and arranged access on the Saturday night to repair the defect within the correct timescale also arranged the correct resource redirected welders with the correct skills to complete the repair arranged S&T cover with the correct skills. Submitted CRF forms to gain late emergency access. This then prevented emergency speed restrictions points banned to facing movements and saving on train delays. The managers and the Track Maintenance Engineer didn't find out about this until the Monday morning. When the feedback from P/way was that a successful repair had been completed in the correct timescale avoiding any train diversions for all trains traveling between Birmingham New Street and Rugby and no train delays accrued. Liz is a valued member of the RME team at S&D and respected by all in the depot as a very good section planner who shows great behaviours and teamwork each and every day.“