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Network Rail’s new CEO began life in Helensburgh

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Mark Carne, like his almost phonetic twin, Mark Carney the respected current Governor of the Bank of England, is also flying at the top.

Born in Helensburgh [his father was in the Royal Navy] and now Network Rail’s new Chief Executive, Mark Carne has set himself a set of public targets to meet that, if he can deliver them, will certainly put the UK’s rail service up there with the very best.

Taking over as CEO rather earlier than planned, in January 2014, Carne has already set in train a five year plan on an investment of £38 billion which is aimed at:

  • adding 170,000 more seats for the peak commuter period;
  • renewing and electrifying 4,300 miles of track
  • increasing services into London by 20%
  • taking 20% off costs.

He says that this is all about ‘more trains, more seats, reduced congestion and bigger, better stations’. He is determined to make possible a time keeping performance to take the lead in Europe – committing to a target of 92.5% of the network trains being on time.

What Carne is looking at just now is Network Rail’s current shortfall of over 5% on its current and lesser target of 91.8%. The man with the stopwatch is setting the bar high for himself.

At the moment he is making no excuses for Network Rail, saying: ‘I hold my hand up and agree that more than 50% of delays are to do with failures of the network’.

He says: “I welcome hard targets’. Since he is setting them for himself, that statement cannot be challenged – yet.

In the end, it’s all about delivery but in terms of intentions and the guts to commit to these hard targets – what’s not to like?


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