Insights

Privately Financing Rail Infrastructure: a pipeline or a pipedream?

Market Insight
Stephen Layburn, Managing Director - Centrus
25/02/2019

A pipeline or a pipe dream?

Responses to the initial call for evidence for the Williams Rail Review are being submitted and the rail industry is awaiting the findings which are due to be published in Autumn 2019. The Rail Review is far-reaching and makes for a complex task for independent chair, Keith Williams, and his team if they are going to make recommendations for meaningful change.

As the industry awaits its conclusions, this paper considers a question that has been posed multiple times yet remains pertinent to all the principles set out in the Rail Review’s terms of reference:

Can there be a role for private finance in the delivery of UK rail infrastructure and, if so, how can a pipeline of opportunity be created?

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For more information, please contact Stephen Layburn, Managing Director – Centrus