UK: Mike Bagshaw has been appointed as the next Managing Director of MTR Elizabeth Line.
Current Managing Director Nigel Holness is to step down in early February, remaining with MTR and focusing on developing future business opportunities.
Holness said he had achieved the ‘extraordinary career highlight’ of opening the Crossrail project’s Central Operating Section, and felt ’the time is now right to move onto other challenges’.
Bagshaw has more than 30 years’ experience in the rail industry. He first joined MTR in 2016 as Bid Director, before becoming Performance & Planning Director of MTR Elizabeth Line in 2018, and CEO of parent company MTR UK in 2021.
‘Mike Bagshaw’s responsibilities have included overseeing the planning and delivery of the end-to-end Elizabeth Line, developing industry-leading operational performance and planning capability, and expanding a successful operating business portfolio’, said MTR UK CEO Steve Murphy on January 18. ‘This, along with his extensive industry experience with operators including Arriva Trains Wales, Chiltern Railways and First Great Western, made him the ideal choice to lead MTREL into the final stages of the existing concession agreement, and beyond.’
