YorksLad12
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Great British Railways - Competition for new location of GBR Headquarters
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Or more helpfully, away from government ministers with bright ideas for their constituencies. Then the heads of GBR might actually be able to run the company properly.
My memory is that they bragged that it woud only be 2 dozen accountants.
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Thats actually a better replacement for Parliament whilst they refurbish it
Instead of trying to work around the MPs.
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How about converting the old John Lewis unit at Birmingham New Street. Promoniamt we'll connected location that is unlikely to see use in retail again.
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I'd like to see the "top brass" keep themselves obfuscated on RTT for long... especially in their inevitable Snowpiercer Dystopian future!
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The money pit that GBR is becoming just gets a little bit deeper.
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Good idea. That was Sheaf House in the past. Railway offices.
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That's how the Welsh National Eisteddfod works - in a different town/region every year.My suggestion would be by having a rather large tent structure travel around the various towns and cities
In a luminous pink tent.
I also see Alistair Darling, not a Scot Nat, has said that the name "GBR" doesn't fit with the devolved UK mood or structures and needs changing.
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Why? All they will likely do is lease space in a new office building, and nobody ever does that do they?
Who owns it?
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Unfortunately I don't know, I might have thought Network Rail (who manage it) but possible a private enterprise.
WesternBiker
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I think it's Hammerson, who own both the Grand Central shopping centre and the new Bullring next door. Details are at: https://www.hammerson.com/flagships/bullring-grand-central.
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Local ITV news: Doncaster and York have both confirmed that they will be bidding.
Feels like a low-budget version of the Olympics.
While it might not fit the ‘mood’ how many countries have a ‘national(ised)’ railway system that doesn’t include some element of the jurisdiction it serves? Even in highly regionalised Germany it’s still a national railway service run by the federal government. In the UK each of the devolved jurisdictions have included their identity (Transport for London (running London Overground), Transport for Wales, Scotrail: Scotland’s Railway and NI Railways) in the services they run (and these services won’t change). After years of the left and the unions saying they want the railways nationalised it’s not that surprising that a national rail operator that covers most of Britain, has Britain or British in the name.
As to whether it’s a good name…? Probably not. But at least we know they didn’t spend millions on consultants coming up with a name like Consignia.
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Deepgreen
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Today's railway is adept at pointless re-invention, so I imagine the vast waste associated with changing the railway's HQ will be no exception.
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I thought we had already established that MK isn't the HQ?
Bravo
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Disappointed that nobody has yet suggested Redcar. Huge brownfield site of the former steelworks, just made bigger last month by demolition of the iconic Dorman Long tower. Enterprising (Tory) mayor. Close to Stockton with its railway history. Just across the river from Hartlepool (Tory gain from Labour).
There is a ready made station with a half hourly service (admittedly no trains actually call there), a nearby rail served airport (with a similar service “provision) and of course in the North.
There is a ready made station with a half hourly service (admittedly no trains actually call there), a nearby rail served airport (with a similar service “provision) and of course in the North.
Has anybody yet seen anything to confirm that this new HQ will be anything more than a handful of staff to collect mail to the registered address of the company? Is there any indication of how many staff and which roles will be based there?
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Dudley. As a consolation prize for not getting City status again...
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Might want to put a railway there before making it Railway HQ
(Arguments re: Sandwell and Dudley not valid. It ain't Dudley. Neither's Dudley Port)
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With tongue firmly in cheek (!?!) one imagines a government competition which omits to specify that the host town must have a railway station. It would be a particularly British thing to end up with its rail HQ in a town not served by rail!
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Anything is possible with this administration.
It'll no doubt be somewhere that has nothing to do with railways manned by 20 managers for every administrator, administrators for the administrators and administrative administrators for the administrators administrators
We've got the Very Light Rail centre remember.
Plus it's not far from J2 M5...
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Why is it necessary for a headquarters office block to be based somewhere that has a railway station though? Cunard could move their HQ to Ilkley Moor if it suited them, IT is the be all and end all these days, so I read, so why does the site it operates from have any bearing on the business? also along with all those that think working from home is so wonderful why have a base bigger than a telephone box at all?
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