Patrick Allen McLoughlin,Baron McLoughlin,is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he first became the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Derbyshire following the 1986 by-election. The constituency became the Derbyshire Dales for the 2010 general election;McLoughlin remained the seat's MP until 2019.
The commissioner of transport for London has management responsibility for Transport for London (TfL) and hence for the transport system throughout the City of London and Greater London in the United Kingdom. TfL is controlled by a board whose members are appointed by the Mayor of London,who also chairs the Board. The commissioner reports to the board and leads a management team with individual functional responsibilities. The commissioner is therefore the most senior transport official in the capital.
Peter Spencer Bowness,Baron Bowness,is a British politician,solicitor,and life peer. Since 1996,he has been a member of the House of Lords.
John Hendy,Baron Hendy,is an English barrister and politician practising in employment and trade union law.
General John Nicholas Reynolds Houghton,Baron Houghton of Richmond,is a retired senior British Army officer and former Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) of the British Armed Forces. He was appointed CDS in July 2013,following the retirement of General Sir David Richards. He served as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion,the Green Howards in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and later became Commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade in Northern Ireland. He deployed as Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General,Multi-National Force –Iraq during the Iraq War. Later,he became Chief of Joint Operations at Permanent Joint Headquarters and served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff until assuming the position of CDS. Houghton retired from the British Army in July 2016,and was succeeded as CDS by Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach.
Sir John Alexander Armitt is an English civil engineer,and current chairman of the UK's National Infrastructure Commission.
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK is the membership organisation for United Kingdom professionals involved in the movement of goods and people,and their associated supply chains. It is a National Council of CILT International.
Neil Francis Jeremy Mendoza,Baron Mendoza,is a British businessman,academic administrator,and member of the House of Lords.
Network Rail Control Periods are the 5-year timespans into which Network Rail,the owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain,works for financial and other planning purposes. Each Control Period begins on 1 April and ends on 31 March to coincide with the financial year. These periods were inherited from Railtrack,so that the earlier ones are retrospective,and not necessarily of 5 years duration.
The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) is an organisation established in 2012,replacing the Olympic Park Legacy Company and the planning powers of the Olympic Delivery Authority. It was formed as a mayoral development corporation under the powers of the Localism Act 2011. The mayoral development area covered by the development corporation is the Olympic Park and surrounding areas.
Richard Howard Brown is a British transport executive. Until 30 June 2013 he was the chairman of Eurostar International Limited,having previously been Eurostar UK Ltd's chief executive between August 2002 and April 2010.
Adrian Shooter was a British transport executive.
Michael William Tuke Brown,is a British transport executive who was the Commissioner of Transport for London from September 2015,upon his appointment by Mayor of London Boris Johnson,until June 2020.
Michèle Dix CBE is a British civil engineer. She is the managing director of Crossrail 2 and had previously been the director of planning for Transport for London. In 2016,Dix was named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering.
The 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours are honours awarded following the July 2019 resignation of the Prime Minister,Theresa May. The life peerages and other honours were issued as two separate lists by the Cabinet Office on 10 September 2019,while the honours were gazetted as one list on 28 October 2019.
Sir Douglas Edwin Oakervee FHKIE is a British civil engineer who is a past chairman of both High Speed 2 and Crossrail,and was the 139th president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was awarded the CBE in 2010 for his contributions to civil engineering and appointed Knight bachelor in 2022 for services to transport and infrastructure delivery.
Cleveland Anthony Sewell,Baron Sewell of Sanderstead,is a British educational consultant and founder and chair of the educational charity Generating Genius. In July 2020,Sewell was appointed chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities tasked with looking into race disparity in the UK. Sewell sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He has been described as an admirer of the Black conservative scholar Thomas Sowell.
As part of the British honours system,Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards made within royal prerogative,operational honours,political honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.
Nigel Harris is an English journalist and media commentator. He was managing editor of RAIL,a UK rail industry magazine. Now Co-Presenter of the Green Signals podcast with Richard Bowker CBE. He has been in the railway publishing industry since 1981 where he started as assistant editor of the publication Steam World. He is often invited to speak on British television about accidents and other rail related matters. He is regularly called before the Transport Select Committee of the UK Parliament to give evidence and opinion. He has also taught on the Winchester Journalism course.
