Network
Rail
chair
Lord
Hendy
CBE

has
been
named
as
a
minister
of
state
in
the
Department
for
Transport.

Peter
Hendy,
71, started
his
career
in
public
transport
in
1975
as
a
graduate
trainee
with
London
Transport,
having
gained
a
degree
in
Economics
and
Geography
at
the
University
of
Leeds.

In
1989
he
became
managing
director
of
CentreWest
London
Buses
in
1989,
under
London
Transport
ownership.

Five
years
later
he
led
CentreWest
through
a
management
buyout.
After
the
company
was
taken
over
by
FirstGroup
in
1997,
he
became
Deputy
Director
UK
Bus,
at
FirstGroup.

He
returned
to
London
Transport’s
successor
Transport
for
London
in
2001,
when
he
was
appointed
managing
director
of
Surface
Transport.
He
became
a
CBE
and
commissioner
of
transport
in
2006.

He
was
responsible
for
transport
during
the
2012
Olympics,
and
was
widely
praised
for
the
effectiveness
of
the
arrangements,
gaining
a
knighthood
as
a
result.

He
was
appointed
chair
of
Network
Rail
in
2015
and
received
a
life
peerage
in
2022.
He
had
most
recently
been
leading
the
arrangements
for
the
Railway
200
festival
next
year.

His
move
to
the
Department
for
Transport
will
be
a
change
of
direction,
as
he
will
now
be
helping
to
oversee
Network
Rail
and
in
due
course
Great
British
Railways,
on
behalf
of
the
government.