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Responding to the Secretary of State’s announcements on Rail Reform at the George Bradshaw Address, Andy Bagnall, Chief Executive of Rail Partners said:

In response to the rail minister, Huw Merriman MP, talking at the Transport Select Committee on rail services and infrastructure, a spokesperson for Rail Partners said:

Responding to the Minimum Service Levels bill introduction to Parliament, a spokesperson for Rail Partners said:

In response to ORR’s passenger usage statistics, Rail Partners' Chief Executive, Andy Bagnall, said:

'The latest ORR passenger usage statistics underline the financial challenges facing the rail industry from the pandemic and the current industrial action.

'It’s encouraging to see passenger numbers are improving, but to secure the long-term sustainability of the railway and in turn the jobs and economic benefits it supports, the contractual model must now evolve to accelerate recovery.

‘Operators must be given the commercial freedoms to attract customers back and make rail an attractive, sustainable and reliable choice for people up and down the country.’

Responding to today's freight usage and performance statistics, Andy Bagnall, Chief Executive of Rail Partners, said:

Reacting to the Secretary of State’s comment at the Transport Select Committee that a final decision on Great British Railways had not yet been made, John Thomas, Director of Policy at Rail Partners, said:

In response to the ORR’s rail industry finance statistics, Andy Bagnall, Rail Partners’ chief executive, said:

• Industry warns that a failure to focus on attracting customers to the railway risks a permanently smaller rail network
• Call for greater train operator freedom comes as railway faces a £2bn shortfall in revenues and further industrial action, meaning unsustainable levels of taxpayer support
• New research by Rail Partners reveals up to £1.6bn over the next two years could be unlocked for the Treasury through private sector investment and innovation

In response to ORR’s estimates of station usage data, Rail Partners' chief executive, Andy Bagnall, said:

In response to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement, Rail Partners’ Chief Executive, Andy Bagnall, said:

In response to the new Transport Select Committee Chair, Andy Bagnall, Chief Executive of Rail Partners, said:

Responding to the DfT's 'First of a Kind' funding announcement, Mark Gaynor, Director of Operator Services at Rail Partners, said: