Holding The Line: How Britain's Railways Were Saved - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Chris Austin is a board member of the Association of Community Rail Partnerships, Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Heritage Railways and a co-opted member of the Railway Heritage Committee. Chairman of the West Somerset Steam Railway Trust, he is also an active volunteer on the line, as well as with the Heritage Railway Association. He joined BR in 1967, working in local management and project planning. For ten years he was the Board's Parliamentary Affairs Manager covering the period of privatisation. He set up and ran a political consultancy for the rail industry before moving to the Strategic Rail Authority where, his responsibilities included producing the Community Rail Development strategy. He retired in February, 2009 as Head of Public Affairs for ATOC. He is a graduate of Cambridge University, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics and was awarded the OBE in 2006 for services to the railway industry.

Richard Faulkner (Lord Faulkner of Worcester) is a Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords, which he joined as a working peer in 1999. From 2009-2010 he was a minister in the government whips' office, where he had spokesman responsibilities for transport. He is treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Railway Group, and vice-chair of the Heritage Rail Group.. He is a trustee of the Science Museum, and chair-designate of the Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board, which will take over the statutory powers of the Railway Heritage Committee in 2013 (the body he chaired until 2009). He is also President of the Heritage Railway Association. Prior to entering the House of Lords he worked as a parliamentary affairs and public relations consultant. For over 20 years (1977-1998) he worked as an adviser to the British Railways Board. He is a vice-president of the Campaign for Better Transport (previously Transport 2000), and formerly its vice-chair. He is a graduate of Oxford University, an honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and a fellow of the University of Worcester.