UK: FirstGroup has announced the appointment of Matthew Golton as Managing Director of TransPennine Express from June 1. He will take over from Acting Managing Director Liz Collins, who is retiring from her current full-time role and taking up a new part-time position as Finance & Commercial Director at the West Coast Partnership.
Golton has been with FirstGroup since 2006, holding a number of senior leadership roles including Commercial Development Director and Interim Managing Director at Great Western Railway, and more recently First Rail Business Development Director. Prior to joining FirstGroup, he worked in the rail freight and energy sectors.
FirstGroup said Goldton’s experience of helping to guide GWR through the Great Western Route Modernisation Programme ‘will be key as TPE completes the roll out of the new Nova fleets and gears up to support the TransPennine Upgrade and other major rail enhancement programmes in the north of England and into Scotland.’
‘I want TPE to be at the heart of delivering positive change for rail users and the communities that it serves in the north of England and into Scotland’, said Golton. ‘I look forward to working with colleagues and stakeholders to realise that’.
