Sustainable Rail Executive
The Sustainable Rail Executive (SRE) champions a whole-industry approach to sustainability. It influences and shapes the Sustainable Rail Blueprint, supporting rail to become the leading mode of sustainable transport. The group responds to government ambitions and oversees and promotes an ambitious, affordable, and practical rail sustainability programme.
‘I’m delighted to build on the work we’ve done with RSSB in the past and take full advantage of the opportunity to collaborate and inform railway policy and planning in the years ahead. By working together as an industry, we have co-created a fresher and more ambitious Sustainable Rail Blueprint. It joins together all the good work industry is doing and paves the way for rail to maximise its potential, so that we can play our part in the UK’s future transport system.’
Scope
The SRE is required to:
- drive forward the development of an ambitious, affordable, and practical sustainability blueprint to make rail the leading mode of sustainable transport
- coordinate policy and industry responses to sustainability challenges, influencing the government to weigh investment choices in rail against sustainability outcomes in other modes
- collate and report the combined efforts of the industry into a single, understandable view
- review the industry’s progress and provide challenge where it is needed, holding duty holders to account
- assesses sustainability funding and identify shortfalls, impressing upon funders the need for further support.
Rail Leader Update – Sustainability
Making rail greener is no easy feat. Though our industry is already at a distinct advantage, we face obstacles aplenty. But when we team up with cross-industry working groups and other rail organisations, we take steps towards an even greener railway.
Watch our two-minute video update for an overview of this work and other projects under way.
Subgroup
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Sustainable Rail Leadership Group
The purpose of the Sustainable Rail Leadership Group (SRLG) is to enable the rail industry to deliver a more sustainable railway efficiently and effectively through adoption of the Rail Sustainable Rail Blueprint.
Membership
The SRE has members representing these industry stakeholders:
- suppliers
- freight companies
- non-passenger train operators
- passenger train operators
- infrastructure managers
- rolling stock owners
- Department for Transport
- Office of Rail and Road
- RSSB.
Chair: Malcolm Brown, Angel Trains Ltd
RSSB main representative: Rachael Everard
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Group members
Name Company Representing Status Andrea Rossi DB Cargo (UK) Limited Non Passenger Train Operators Member Andrew Bagnall Rail Delivery Group Passenger Train Operators Member Bethan Stokes Department for Transport (DfT) Government Member Bill Reeve Transport Scotland Government Member Cavendish Elithorn
Department for Transport (DfT)
Government Member Clive Burrows First Rail Holdings Limited Passenger Train Operators Member Daniel Mann Rail Delivery Group Passenger Train Operators Member Darren Caplan Railway Industry Association (RIA) Suppliers Member David Clarke Rail Industry Association (RIA) RIA Member Emma Alexander First Rail Holdings Passenger Train Operators Member Jane Lumb
Department for Transport (DfT) Government Member Jennifer Elevique Department for Transport (DfT) Government Member Jo Lewington Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Managers Alternate John Larkinson Office of Rail and Road Regulator Member Johnny Schute RSSB RSSB Member Karl Watts Rail Operations (UK) Ltd Non Passenger Train Operators Member Laura Harding HS2 Infrastructure Managers Member Leyton Powell Transport for Wales Government Member Louise Ward Freightliner Limited Non Passenger Train Operators Member Maggie Simpson Rail Freight Group Non Passenger Train Operators Member Malcolm Brown Angel Trains Ltd Rolling Stock Owners Chair Mark Gaynor Rail Partners Limited Passenger Train Operators Member Martin Frobisher Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Manager Member Paul Sutherland
Eversholt Rail Limited
Rolling Stock Owners
Member Paul Taylor Colas Rail Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Peter Miller High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Phil Hibberd Transport UK Passenger Train Operators Member Rachael Everard
RSSB RSSB Member Richard Allen The Chiltern Railway Company Ltd Passenger Train Operators Member Richard Thorp High Speed 1 Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Rob Evans Siemens Mobility Limited Suppliers Member Roisin Mulvany RSSB RSSB IGM Member Sam Longman Transport for London (TfL) Government Member
