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British Rail Franchising: An Experience in Choppy Seas

My 5 year-term as the Rail Regulator in Great Britain from 1999 to 2004 coincided with the most turbulent times the British railway industry has ever experienced in peacetime. It was a great honour and privilege to do that job, yielding as it did valuable lessons for rail regulation in the most testing of circumstances.