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Rod Reid joins Bridgeway Rod Reid has joined Bridgeway Consulting as a Specialist Consultant focussing primarily on safety management systems both internally at Bridgeway and also externally for a number of high profile clients. Rod Reid is an experienced senior manager with a background of over 30 years in the rail industry. He joined British Rail as a graduate management trainee in 1979 and spent the first half of his career in front line operational management in Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds and Newcastle. In the 1990s, Rod held a number of senior safety management roles at Railtrack and Network Rail including Head of Safety Validation and Head of Health & Safety Management Systems until June 2012. A chartered member of IOSH, Rod Reid has an MBA in Transport Studies from Leeds University.
Howard Smith appointed Operations Director Howard Smith has been appointed Operations Director at Crossrail. Smith, a popular figure in the industry, is currently Chief Operating Officer for Rail at Transport for London where he successfully led the East London Line extension project and launched London Overground. Howard will join Crossrail on 25th March 2013. He will be responsible for leading the development of Crossrail’s operational strategy and will develop the new railway’s operating and maintenance organisations. In addition he will lead the arrangements for the future Crossrail operating concession. A noted strategist, Howard Smith studied economics at LSE before joining British Rail where he
gained valuable operating experience running trains and stations in south and west London. In the 1990s he worked for Railfreight Distribution, BR’s international freight organisation charged with opening up the Channel Tunnel for freight. Smith pioneered freight services over Britain’s first land link with the continent establishing joint ventures with Belgian and Swiss partners and, importantly, working with SNCF. In 1998 Howard joined the Docklands Light Railway as Planning and Development Director. He played an important role in developing projects such as the extensions to London City Airport and Woolwich Arsenal. Howard moved to London Rail as
Chief Operating Officer at the end of 2004 where he has had responsibility for the successful delivery of a £3 billion investment programme which created London Overground and expanded and upgraded the DLR and Tramlink, as well as planning for Crossrail operations. More recently Smith was part of the rail industry push to provide trouble-free transport during the London Olympics. DLR and London Overground delivered record levels of performance whilst moving up to twice the regular number of passengers. Howard Smith will report jointly to Crossrail Chief Executive Andrew Wolstenholme and London Underground’s Managing Director Mike Brown.
Neal Lawson goes to Network Rail Neal Lawson has joined Network Rail as director, maintenance and operations services. The former managing director of First Capital Connect will lead central maintenance and operations. It’s a new position designed to bring about a strategic cross-network view of the operational railway. Neal will be responsible for the operating strategy, timetabling, national performance management, improving infrastructure reliability, improving operational and workforce safety and level crossings. His remit also includes CrossCountry and open access operators, stations and depots, and the coordination of a £1 billion capital investment
programme during control period five. Lawson will be involved in the implementation of the European Train Control System. Neal has extensive industry and technical experience. Prior to joining FCC, he was senior vice president, asset engineering at Metronet and vice president, engineering and product development at Bombardier. Neal joined FCC in May 2009 as engineering and new trains director. He became managing director in January 2010. An Australian, Neal was educated at Queensland University of Technology where he read Mechanical Engineering. Originally he worked in the Australian railway industry.
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