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Steve Hopkinson has been appointed Service Delivery Director for CrossCountry. Steve will have a pivotal role at the heart of CrossCountry, overseeing the way we deliver our service to our customers. He will be focused on providing strategic leadership...

Great Western Railway (GWR) has announced the appointment of Rachel Geliamassi to the new role of Customer Services Director. Rachel will be responsible for leading the customer services teams across its stations and trains and ensuring GWR continues to provide...

Xavier Sarrat has been appointed chief procurement officer for Pandrol, replacing Olivier Jullien who has taken on a new strategic role. A master of both the French National Business School for Higher Education in Management (HEC) and National School for...

Anthony Smith is to become the new chair of Independent Rail Retailers (IRR) when he steps down from his role as chief executive at Transport Focus later this month. Mr Smith has been the voice of Britain’s transport users for...

Northern has appointed Matt Rice as its new chief operating officer (COO). Rice, who lives in York, North Yorkshire, is currently a route director at Network Rail and is set to join the train operator later in the spring. He will...

One of the UK’s most experienced rail executives, Nigel Holness, has joined CPC Project Services (CPC), as Non-Executive Director, to support CPC’s transport and infrastructure divisions’ future growth aspirations. With over 37 years’ experience in the rail industry, Nigel has...

NTS has announced that, following a competitive recruitment process, Gottfried Eymer hasbeen appointed as its Managing Director - Rail. Gottfried will be responsible for driving NTS’s rail business forward by continuing to deliverhigh-quality operations for customers in the nuclear and...

David Brown, managing director UK Trains at Arriva, has been appointed as chair of Rail Delivery Group (RDG). David has served on RDG’s board as a member since 2020 and has extensive experience in the railway sector. The RDG Board...

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has announced that one of its deputy chief inspectors with a lengthy career in engineering and safety will succeed Ian Prosser CBE in the summer as HM chief inspector of railways. Richard Hines,...

Network Rail’s Southern region has announced Mark Goodall as its route director to lead the Wessex route, one of the busiest networks in the country which includes all services out of one of England’s busiest railway station, London Waterloo. Mark is currently...