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Title: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: Richard Fairhurst on December 03, 2020, 10:43:48 Stakeholder email this morning:
Quote I?d like you to be one of the first to know that, after a year as interim managing director at South Western Railway, Mark Hopwood will be returning to Great Western Railway as Managing Director from 4 January next year. It has been an absolute privilege to have led GWR through this very challenging year, and I?m grateful for the support you have given me and the GWR family. I also know that Mark is very much looking forward to getting back to the Western and working with you all again. I?m proud and pleased of what we?ve been able to achieve in the past year, from improving train service performance and securing investment in key projects across our network, to keeping our key workers moving through a global pandemic and supporting the local economic recovery in the communities we serve. At the same time, I?ve been asked to take up a secondment to the First Rail leadership team to focus on the development of FirstGroup?s future rail businesses and contractual arrangements. This is an exciting opportunity to use the skills and experience from this year, as well as my time working on previous franchise bids, to help our sister train companies in FirstGroup and I look forward to helping secure and shape the future of First?s rail businesses at this critical time. During this time I will remain a statutory director at First Greater Western Ltd and will continue to take a keen interest in the business. In the meantime I hope you have a great Christmas and New Year. Best wishes Matthew Matthew Golton | Managing Director | Great Western Railway Title: Changes at the top - GWR - from 4.1.2021 Post by: grahame on December 03, 2020, 10:53:28 Just received by email ...
Quote Dear Graham I?d like you to be one of the first to know that, after a year as interim managing director at South Western Railway, Mark Hopwood will be returning to Great Western Railway as Managing Director from 4 January next year. It has been an absolute privilege to have led GWR through this very challenging year, and I?m grateful for the support you have given me and the GWR family. I also know that Mark is very much looking forward to getting back to the Western and working with you all again. I?m proud and pleased of what we?ve been able to achieve in the past year, from improving train service performance and securing investment in key projects across our network, to keeping our key workers moving through a global pandemic and supporting the local economic recovery in the communities we serve. At the same time, I?ve been asked to take up a secondment to the First Rail leadership team to focus on the development of FirstGroup?s future rail businesses and contractual arrangements. This is an exciting opportunity to use the skills and experience from this year, as well as my time working on previous franchise bids, to help our sister train companies in FirstGroup and I look forward to helping secure and shape the future of First?s rail businesses at this critical time. During this time I will remain a statutory director at First Greater Western Ltd and will continue to take a keen interest in the business. In the meantime I hope you have a great Christmas and New Year. Best wishes Matthew Matthew is very well suited to the ongoing negotiation for the future of First, and with a significant "Customer First" bias, in our changed world and I wish him all the very best in the role he describes. I'm sure he'll remember us and be in touch occasionally as appropriate building towards a sustainable public transport system for the future - sustainable in terms of building positive passenger use, developing for the future where both climate and covid lead us down lines not imagined a decade ago and with the social changes they bring. Sustainable also in financial terms - looking after First group for sure, but also staff and passengers and the treasury. It will be good to welcome Mark back too. We have missed him (though I will not say "sadly" as he has had an enormous job at SWR) and look forward to seeing him around and taking steps through next year(s) as public transport in general and GWR in particular rebuild. 2020 has seen public transport and the economy kicked back dramatically ... there is much work for both Mark and Mattew to do in 2021 Title: Re: Mark Hopwood returning to GWR Post by: bradshaw on December 03, 2020, 17:55:35 Claire Mann taking over from Mark Hopwood at SWR http://transport-network.co.uk/A-railway-close-to-my-heart-Mann-in-for-Hopwood-at-SWR/17006 Title: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: Timmer on December 30, 2020, 22:51:54 BBC South Today?s Paul Clifton has just tweeted that Mark Hopwood has been awarded a CBE.
Congratulations Mark. Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: grahame on December 31, 2020, 00:17:23 BBC South Today?s Paul Clifton has just tweeted that Mark Hopwood has been awarded a CBE. Congratulations Mark. From The London Gazette (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/63218/data.pdf) Quote To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order: ... Mark HOPWOOD, Managing Director, Great Western Railway. For services to Transport. Congratulations, indeed, Mark. Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: bobm on December 31, 2020, 04:33:41 Nice to see another member of the Coffee Shop included in the Honours List. ;D
Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: Electric train on December 31, 2020, 06:59:36 It is great to see someone in the rail industry recognised, congratulations Mark
Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: ChrisB on December 31, 2020, 08:56:09 Well deserved, congratukations Mark
Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: paul7575 on January 01, 2021, 23:47:19 Cancelled Buffet Equipment? ::) ;D
Paul Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: grahame on January 02, 2021, 10:17:47 Cancelled Buffet Equipment? ::) ;D Paul Yeah ... here's where the letter come from. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order: I appreciate that I asked people to fill in acronyms in another thread, then failed to do so in my post of congratulation; gives me another chance to congratulate Mark. Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: TonyK on January 02, 2021, 20:17:40 Congratulations from me too, Mark. Hard-earned, for sure!
Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: broadgage on February 22, 2021, 19:51:08 Cancelled Buffet Equipment? ::) ;D Paul Cancelled Buffet Enjoyment perhaps. Despite the badly downgraded catering, I still congratulate Mr Hopwood on this award. Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: bobm on May 31, 2021, 16:20:38 There is an interesting article on the career (so far) of Mark Hopwood in the latest Railway Magazine with part two to come next month. Well worth a read.
Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: bradshaw on July 10, 2021, 16:51:25 In addition to the Railway Magazine articles are the INTUITIVE INSIGHT podcasts run by Nina Lockwood.
Number 10 features Mark Hopwood and can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbtgPhwcjZM It lasts for 47 minutes. There are a number of others which feature railway people, such as Nigel Harris and Chris Green. Title: Re: Mark Hopwood CBE Post by: TonyK on July 11, 2021, 16:21:33 There are a number of others in which railway people like Nigel Harris and Chris Green. Remind me why they like them. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |