Jimmy King commemorated with station plaque

Jimmy King, an extremely well-respected and popular member of the Telent team, sadly passed away on the 24th of October 2021. Jimmy’s life has been commemorated with a plaque at Glasgow Station, in his home city.

The unveiling of Jimmy King’s Commemorative plaque at Glasgow Central Station took place on 12th August with family, colleagues, friends and members of the First Battalion of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Jimmy’s old regiment, all present.

Jimmy was well-known for his commitment to the company and his positive attitude, which made him a true asset in his role as Lead Systems Engineer. He will be missed by all those lucky to have worked with him.

His service with Marconi/Telent was exemplary and he became known as a Radio Guru. A member of the Radio Engineering team, Jimmy was admired by all those who worked with him both within Telent and our customers, and he always made time to help anyone who asked for his assistance.

Jimmy was involved in a high number of projects during his service. These included the West Coast Mainline GSMR rollout, a project dedicated to designing and implementing the new GSMR service when it was introduced on the WCML.

The GSMR Network evaluation was a consultation of current network coverage and, with Jimmy’s passion for documentation, provided 7kg of reports into Network Rail.

He also played a part in the MCA Microwave refresh program, where the overarching microwave network design for Telent to deliver against was created.

More recently Jimmy contributed to the train station Wi-Fi – spear project. Jimmy spearheaded Wi-Fi into Network Rail stations and lead the Telent engineering team. Jimmy led by example and others certainly benefitted from his eye for detail and became better engineers for working with him. Continuing his love of documentation, Jimmy produced the Reference System Design on Wi-Fi for Network Rail Stations (160+ pages) for which Telent received a commendation from Network Rail.