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This month we welcome Mitch Tonge!

Name: Mitch Tonge  

Job title: Fleet Performance and Technical Engineer 

Location: Palestra House 

Hi Mitch! Please sum up your role in one sentence

My role entails identifying, monitoring, and reporting on all aspects of fleet performance and investigating trends collaboratively with the maintainer.   

Tell us about your journey to ARL…

I am relatively new to the rail industry, after finishing university in 2018 I worked for Alstom as a Field Maintenance Engineer investigating faults on the Class 710 fleet at Willesden TMD. I joined ARL at the beginning of November. 

What do you look forward to most working at ARL?

Working for the maintainer previously I was quite far removed from the end user so I am looking forward to seeing the positive impact my work will have on customers and drivers.  

Tell us about your most memorable railway trip…

Riding the TGV from Paris into the Alps, sitting in the café with a beer and watching the landscape change from green to white. 

If you could book a ticket to any destination, where would you go?  

I’d like to go traveling around Japan one day.