ATTENDEES

First Rail Consultancy, part of First Rail, delivers specialist services across the public transport sector, particularly in the rail industry. Ranging from commercial, customer experience, human resources, marketing, and programme and project management to bid writing, analysis, engineering, operations, and performance and planning, First Rail Consultancy provides expert advice to its clients that covers every facet of a transport operator.

We are responsible for over £34bn in assets on behalf of more than 350,000 members, providing market-leading pension administration and investment services for defined benefit (DB), defined contribution (DC) and hybrid schemes, including the Railways Pension Scheme – one of the UK’s largest, longest established, and intricate funds.

Greater Anglia runs more than 1,200 trains a day between London Liverpool Street and destinations across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) was formed in 2014 and operates Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express.

London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway operate rail services across the Midlands, the Northwest and London, with Birmingham at the heart of our network.