THE RISE AND RISE OF CAPABILITY BROWN

The article presents a profile of Richard Brown, now commercial director of the National Express Group (NEG). From a beginning at British Rail as a marketing and planning trainee, with the frustrations of government control, Richard Brown later became a director of the profitable InterCity business before the responsibility of preparing Midland Mainline for transfer to the private sector, then National Express ownership. Now as commercial director overseeing NEG's refranchising programme, Richard Brown has called for a 'partial' vertical integration with Railtrack on some parts of the network to prevent an overlap of responsibilities. Views are expressed concerning Railtrack's response to operators following the Hatfield disaster. With UK rail franchises increased from 5 to 9, NEG is the largest UK train operator and Richard Brown is confident that work at NEG will result in rail travel playing an increasingly important role in overcoming transport problems.

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  RAIL PROFESSIONAL LTD

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• Authors:
  • RANDELL, C
• Publication Date: 2001-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 12-4
• Serial:
  • Rail Professional
  • Volume: 53
  • Issue Number: 53
  • Publisher: Cambridge Publishers Limited
  • ISSN: 1476-2196
  • Serial URL: http://www.cpl.biz/ourwork/general/rp.htm

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Improvements; Level of service; Networks; Passenger transportation; Planning; Railroad transportation; Transportation
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 9108: Improvement; 653: Level of service; 1154: Network (transport); 1146: Passenger transport; 143: Planning; 1173: Rail bound transport
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00820738
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 5 2001 12:00AM