Interview
Rail Professional interview: Nicola Shaw
The seven-minute journey is a huge attractor for anybody coming to London to go the Olympics
There aren’t many sides of the rail industry that Nicola Shaw hasn’t been involved in. From senior roles at the SRA and ORR, she switched to buses for a while at FirstGroup, but now she’s back on the railways, heading up HS1. Alan Salter met her at St Pancras International
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ive years in a lonely cottage in the wilds of Aberdeenshire has obviously left Nicola Shaw in need of some company. Now, as the new boss of High Speed One, she is inviting the world to her doorstep. ‘This railway is ready and waiting,’
she pronounces, anticipating the arrival not only of the Olympics next year but also of Deutsche Bahn passenger services in 2013.
Of course, the 42-year-old stockbroker’s daughter
probably spent as much time in her flat in London as at the cottage in Aberdeen while she was managing director of First Group’s UK Bus division. But now, installed as chief executive of HS1, she is feeling exceptionally hospitable. ‘We have got the facilities on freight and passenger services to deliver and if anybody wants to come and talk to me, other than Deutsche Bahn, they are very welcome,’ she says in her first interview since taking
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