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Recent addresses to the Fourth Friday Club

 

 

Dobell welcomes competitive spirit

Keynote address at the the Modern Railways / Railway Forum Fourth Friday Club lunch in November 2005 was given by Malcolm Dobell, Chairman of the Railway Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Click here to read a review of the meeting, view the PowerPoint presentation and see a list of attendees.

 

 

 

Driving up the PPM - Robin Gisby.

Robin Gisby told the January 2006 meeting of the Modern Railways / Railway Forum Fourth Friday Club what he is doing to improve service to Network Rail's customers.

Click here to read a review of the meeting, view the PowerPoint presentation and see a list of attendees.

 

 

 

Boyd tells of improvements.

Rufus Boyd told the September 2005 Fourth Friday Club about the improvements that have followed the introduction of the new South West Trains timetable.

Click here to read a review of the meeting and view the PowerPoint presentation.

 

 

Running a franchise, ten years on

- Christopher Garnett

It’s an uphill struggle, Christopher Garnett, Chief Executive of GNER, told the Fourth Friday Club – especially when the ORR bowls you a googly.

Click here to read a review of the meeting and see a list of the attendees.

 

 

Japanese Railways - Central Exchange 2005

Presentation to Fourth Friday Club 25th September 2006

Presented by Tony Brown and John Thompson. Click here to view a list of the attendees and the Powerpoint presentation (minus photos) from this meeting (138mB download)

Read a review of this meeting in pdf format here.

 

 

London's Transport Challenges for a growing city

Presentation to Fourth Friday Club 26th January 2007

Click here for an Adobe Acrobat file (621KB) of the presentation and here for an Acrobat file of "A Rail Strategy for London's future; A statement of case".

Presented by Ian Brown, Managing Director for TfL.

 

 

Reflections on a Railway career

Network Rail Chief Executive John Armitt looked back over his railway career when he addressed the Fourth Friday Club in March 2007

Click here to read a review of the meeting and see a list of the attendees.

 

HEx-pansion: shuttle operator prepares for T5

Other improvements are due to follow on from T5, Heathrow Express Managing Director Brian Raven told the Fourth Friday Club

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Almost half as many again!

In just four years, TransPennine Express has increased the number of
passenger journeys by almost 50%, Managing Director Vernon Barker told the
Modern Railways Fourth Friday Club.

Click here to read a review of the meetingand see alist of the attendees.

 

Iain Coucher, Chief Executive of Network Rail, addressed the Fourth Friday Club on 27 June 2008.

Click here for an edited version of his address.