Gordon Lindsay Appointed as Regional Director – Middle East

Gordon Lindsay joins Network Rail Consulting as Regional Director for the Middle East. Gordon will be responsible for developing NRC’s business in the region, raising its profile and expanding its client base.

Gordon joins NRC from the engineering consultancy Atkins, where he spent eight years delivering major rail projects in the Middle East and the UK. As a chartered engineer and career railway professional, Gordon brings 27 years’ worth of expertise and knowledge to NRC.   

Gordon commented: “I’m excited to be joining the NRC team, combing my experience of privatisation in the UK with my recent work in the region as it upgrades its infrastructure to be fit for the next 100 years.”

Nigel Ash, Global Managing Director of NRC, said: “We are delighted to welcome Gordon to NRC in the Middle East. His experience sets him in good stead to deliver further growth in the region and expand our portfolio.”

Gordon’s career started in 1991 as a graduate civil engineer on the British Rail Management Training Scheme. He directly experienced the privatisation of the UK railways when working through British Rail in Scotland’s privatisation transformation to First Engineering. Gordon then moved into working on the design and development of major rail projects as part of the Strategic Rail Authority’s 10-year plan, culminating in major upgrades to the UK’s East Coast and West Coast mainlines.

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For further information, contact:

• Olivia Thornton +44 20 7413 3711 [email protected]

Notes to Editors

About Network Rail Consulting

• Network Rail Consulting is a wholly owned subsidiary of Network Rail and was established in 2012 to benchmark Network Rail’s capabilities in the international market and enhance the capabilities of its staff through international experience which could then be deployed back into its UK operations.
• The board of directors of Network Rail Consulting comprises Susan Cooklin (non-executive chair), Nigel Ash (managing director), Andrew Noble (finance director), Thomas Downs (non-executive director), Ian Dobbs (non-executive director), Andy Thomas (non-executive director) and Jeremy Westlake (non-executive director).
• Network Rail Consulting has subsidiaries in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA; and operates from offices in Boston, London (HQ), New York, Riyadh, San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto and Washington DC.
• Network Rail Consulting is selling the full range of rail expertise available within Network Rail including asset management, maintenance planning and optimisation, timetabling and simulation modelling, technical assistance and interim management; and project and programme management.

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About Network Rail

• Network Rail owns, manages and develops Britain’s railway – the 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges and viaducts and thousands of tunnels, signals, level crossings and points. We also manage rail timetabling and 20 of the largest stations in England, Scotland and Wales. In partnership with train operators we help people take more than 1.7bn journeys by rail every year - double the number of 1996 - and move hundreds of millions of tonnes of freight, saving almost 8m lorry journeys. We’re investing £47bn in the railway by 2024 to deliver a more reliable, safer and efficient railway.