YorksLad12
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Constantly on the move, so it can't be located by enemy aircraft or irate passengers...Could their headquarters... actually BE a train?
Constantly on the move, so it can't be located by enemy aircraft or irate passengers...Could their headquarters... actually BE a train?
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.Constantly on the move, so it can't be located by enemy aircraft or irate passengers...
My memory is that they bragged that it woud only be 2 dozen accountants.Remember the original concept of Railtrack was that it was going to be an organisation consisting of entirely signallers and a couple of contract managers.....
Thats actually a better replacement for Parliament whilst they refurbish it
Constantly on the move, so it can't be located by enemy aircraft or irate passengers...
Could their headquarters... actually BE a train?
Good idea. That was Sheaf House in the past. Railway offices.Sheffield on that big space of land opposite the train station
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
Why? All they will likely do is lease space in a new office building, and nobody ever does that do they?The money pit that GBR is becoming just gets a little bit deeper.
Who owns it?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.
Unfortunately I don't know, I might have thought Network Rail (who manage it) but possible a private enterprise.Who owns it?
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.Who owns it?
Local ITV news: Doncaster and York have both confirmed that they will be bidding.
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.
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.Don't we already have this at Milton Keynes?
Network Rails £107 million building that's they relocated lots of staff to several years ago.
I thought we had already established that MK isn't the HQ?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.
BravoFeels like a low-budget version of the Olympics.
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?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.
Might want to put a railway there before making it Railway HQDudley. As a consolation prize for not getting City status again...
Anything is possible with this administration.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!
We've got the Very Light Rail centre remember.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)
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!