UK rail industry personnel news – Page 4

  • Andrew Hall
    Rail Business UK

    Next RAIB Chief Inspector named

    2022-02-01T08:37:00Z

    UK: Andrew Hall has been named the next Chief Inspector of Rail Accidents, and will succeed Simon French when he retires on March 31 after nearly 18 years at the Rail Accident Investigation Branch. A chartered electrical engineer, Hall has worked at RAIB since 2004 and ...

  • Lord McLoughlin
    Rail Business UK

    Lord McLoughlin appointed Chair of Transport for the North

    2022-01-26T12:00:00Z

    UK: Lord McLoughlin was appointed as Chair of Transport for the North at its board meeting on January 25. Patrick McLoughlin was the Member of Parliament for Derbyshire Dales in 1986-2019, and Secretary of State for Transport in 2012-16, becoming a life peer in 2020. ‘I ...

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    Rail Business UK

    Jenny Gilruth named Scottish Transport Minister

    2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

    UK: SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Fife & Glenrothes Jenny Gilruth was named as Scotland’s Transport Minister on January 25, the day after Graeme Dey announced his resignation from the Scottish government for health-related reasons. ‘The transport portfolio is an exciting opportunity to ...

  • Glasgow Queen Street ScotRail Class 385 EMU
    Rail Business UK

    Scottish Transport Minister steps down

    2022-01-24T16:15:00Z

    UK: Transport Minister Graeme Dey resigned from the Scottish Government for health-related reasons on January 24. Dey had been appointed Transport Minister following the 2021 Holyrood elections. He said ‘regrettably, despite my continuing passion, I find myself unable now to give this hugely important ministerial role ...

  • Passengers on London Underground's Piccadilly Line wearing coronavirus face coverings
    Metro Report International

    TfL executive management team slimmed down

    2022-01-24T04:00:00Z

    UK: London’s Transport Commissioner Andy Byford has announced a restructuring and reduction in size of Transport for London’s executive team with effect from February 1. TfL said this would be ‘ensure that TfL is in the best possible shape to become an even more efficient organisation ...

  • Lumo MD Helen Wylde
    Rail Business UK

    Lumo Managing Director steps down

    2022-01-05T09:30:00Z

    UK: Helen Wylde stepped down as Managing Director of recently launched London – Edinburgh open access operator Lumo on January 4, in order to take up a position outside the rail industry. Phil Cameron, First Rail’s Commercial Projects Director, will act as Interim Managing Director until ...