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Jul 12, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Darren Fodey |Tammy Samuel |Suzanne Tarplee |Caroline Hooton
On Tuesday 9 July 2024 we hosted the latest in our series of top table events co-hosted by Stephenson Harwood and Atkins Realis. Juergen Maier, CBE, shared with us his thoughts around Rail and Urban transport, ahead of the publication of the conclusions of his review for the Labour Party on that topic. As always, there was lively debate around the tables and a few unplanned diversions onto wider issues affecting today’s railway, in particular given the results of the recent election.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Darren Fodey |Tammy Samuel |Suzanne Tarplee |Caroline Hooton
On 9 July 2024, Stephenson Harwood LLP and AtkinsRéalis are hosting a Top Table Lunch during which Juergen Maier (who is leading a Rail and Urban Transport Review for the Labour party) will be in conversation with Stephenson Harwood partner Tammy Samuel. If Labour win the general election on 4 July 2024, then this will be the first opportunity for the rail industry to learn more of its plans.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Darren Fodey |Tammy Samuel |Suzanne Tarplee |Caroline Hooton
Top 10 takeaways from our top table dinnerWhat is the future of rail operating contracts? That was the question posed to a room full of railway professionals on Thursday 11 January 2024 at the latest in our series of top table dinners co-hosted by Stephenson Harwood and Atkins Realis.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Darren Fodey |Tammy Samuel |Suzanne Tarplee
Earlier this year in our insight "Waterloo sunset" – which you can find here – we spoke about government proposals to scrap all "retained European law" which forms part of our domestic law following Brexit. As the plans stood at the time, all retained European law would be automatically abolished – unless specifically saved – at the end of this year. This had huge implications for the railway. So much of the law underpinning railway operations, licensing, access and safety has European origins.
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Darren Fodey |Tammy Samuel |Suzanne Tarplee |Caroline Hooton
Top 10 takeaways from our top table dinnerFreight and open access in the future GBR-led railway was the topic for the latest in our series of top table dinners, co-hosted with Atkins, on 14 March 2023. We were delighted to be joined by Maggie Simpson OBE, Director General of the Rail Freight Group, who spoke about some of the freight-specific issues in implementing rail reform.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Darren Fodey |Lisa Marks |Tammy Samuel |Suzanne Tarplee |Caroline Hooton |Samantha Harland | +2 more
The Bus Services Act 2017 introduced two new bus service operating models: franchising and enhanced partnerships. You can find out more about the differences between these two models in one of our previous articles in this series on the bus industry by clicking here. As a brief reminder, under the bus franchising model, the franchising authority (the authority) is solely responsible for specifying the bus routes, services, timetables and frequencies.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Darren Fodey |Lisa Marks |Tammy Samuel |Suzanne Tarplee |Caroline Hooton |Samantha Harland | +2 more
The Bus Services Act 2017 (the Act) was introduced in a bid to combat the perceived challenges faced by the bus industry following deregulation in the 1980s and to allow some local authorities greater control over the bus services being operated in their area. Two new operating models were introduced: franchising and enhanced partnerships (EPs).
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Feb 14, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Darren Fodey |Tammy Samuel |Suzanne Tarplee
"As long as I gaze on, Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise…" The Kinks, 1967Few will suggest the post-Brexit world is quite the paradise envisaged by the song. But there are opportunities following the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union and indeed the government created a Ministerial role to consider Brexit opportunities and government efficiency. A possible opportunity is the ongoing role of European law in the UK and a project is underway within government to review this.
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Feb 9, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Tammy Samuel |Suzanne Tarplee |Darren Fodey |Lisa Marks |Philip Powell |Caroline Hooton | +3 more
With the announcement of the National Bus Strategy (NBS) in March 2021, the UK Government confirmed its intent to overhaul the UK's established model of privatised bus services. This has potentially business-ending implications for incumbent bus operators and offers opportunities to the wider bus operating market.
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Feb 8, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Darren Fodey |Tammy Samuel |Suzanne Tarplee
Like the Grammy awards just two days before, last night (07 February 2023) saw the great and the good of the railway industry gather together on the metaphorical red carpet to hear Transport Secretary Mark Harper MP deliver the 2023 Bradshaw Address. The Address has generated plenty of headlines about the role of the private sector, ticketing reform and placing the railway back on a sustainable financial footing. But what does this really mean for the industry?
