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Mohammad Saeedi Nejad has become head of Iranian Islamic Republic Railways.
Priyal de Silva was appointed General Manager of Sri Lanka Railways from October 6.
On October 1 Robert Etmans took over as Director of Personnel for DB Cargo, succeeding Birgit Gantz-Rathmann who moves to a similar post at DB’s headquarters in Berlin. He had been Head of Process & Services at DB Reise & Touristik.
Steve Marshall resigned as Railtrack Chief Executive on October 8, but he expects to work out his six-month period of notice.
Kjell Nilsson resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Swedish passenger operator SJ ABin September.
Patentes Talgo has appointed Miguel Ángel García as Director General of its Auxiliary Railway Equipment Division. Pedro Pazat de Lys Lachaud has become Administration & Finance Director, succeeding José María de Oriol who is now Vice-President.
Andrew Wayande took over as Managing Director of Kenya Railways Corp at the end of September, replacing Douglas Odette who has moved to the transport ministry.
French National Railways has named Mireille Faugère as Director-General of SNCF Participations alongside Armand Toubol. Formerly Deputy Director of the Grandes Lignes passenger business, she replaces Mathias Emmerich, who becomes Deputy Director, International, at Grandes Lignes, succeeding Cécile Queille who has become Deputy Director, Commercial & Marketing, Grandes Lignes.
Howard Smith has taken over as General Manager of London’s Docklands Light Railway with effect from October 1.
Connex Transport UK has reorganised its British rail franchise bid development team, headed by Geoff Harrison-Mee. Gary Cooper becomes Major Projects & Development Director. Bernard Pratt is Business Development Manager, Howard Read Service Development Manager and Steve White Rolling Stock Development Manager.
Professor Brian Mellitt FREng BTech DIC became President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers on October 1.
Railtrack Technical Director Richard Middleton has been elected President of the European Economic Interest Group for ERTMS.
Jürg Zehnder, Managing Director of Alcan Mass Transportation Systems, has been elected UITP Vice-President Industry.
Mauricio Levy, formerly Railway Gazette’s Portugal correspondent, has been appointed President of the National Institute of Rail Transport.
On October 9 Genesee & Wyoming Inc named Martin D Lacombe as Deputy CEO of Australian Railroad Group, based in Perth. Mario Brault becomes President & General Manager of Genesee Rail-One, operator of the Quebec Gatineau and Huron Central railways. Larry Phipps is named President & General Manager of Portland & Western Railroad. Carl Belke takes the new position of General Manager, Fleet, and Matthew Walsh is Manager, Finance & Acquisitions.
From October 1 Patrice Pinoli became head of Intercontainer-Interfrigo’s West Division on an acting basis, replacing Alan Bennett who has moved to become head of ICF joint venture Allied Continental Intermodal.
Diane Eidam has been named Executive Director of the California Transportation Commission, following the retirement of Robert Remen.
Angel Trains has appointed Tim Dugher as Deputy Engineering Director, and Steve McBride as Account Director for South West Trains, National Express Group and Wales & Borders.
Corus Rail has set up five operating units, under Managing Director Jon Bolton. Director of the Rail unit is Jean-François Maubert, Managing Director of Corus Rail Constancy is Hugh Fenwick, and Steel Sleeper Director is Kerry Hill.
Kazimierz Jachimek has been named Chairman of Polish rail infrastructure company PLK SA; he was Director of Infrastructure at PKP. Also joining the PLK board are Deputy Director, Personnel, Andrzej Krawczyk, Deputy Director, Technical, Pawel Neumann, Deputy Director, Economics & Finance, Miroslaw Pawlowski, and Pawel Gruszczynski, who joins from outside PKP.
