Great Western Railway (GWR) and Network Rail are bringing the leadership of the flagship London Paddington station under a single team, as part of a series of moves designed to bring track and train closer together for the benefit of customers.
Networks Rail’s Lauren Clancy has been appointed as Integrated Station Lead, a recently created role that works across both GWR and Network Rail. This new role further underlines GWR and Network Rail’s commitment to working together to deliver change for the benefit of the customer as the industry moves towards public ownership.
In the past 12 months GWR and Network Rail have brought their Control functions together in a single, joint team, as well as uniting their route strategy teams and access strategy teams, building on their formal alliance agreement which was signed in 2016.
This is the first Network Rail-managed station to integrate a leadership team with a Train Operating Company, with Lauren Clancy overseeing the running of the UK’s third busiest terminus. Lauren has previously spent time as Station Manager at Stratford, Ebbsfleet, and St Pancras International stations – and has more recently led track and train station integration programmes across Anglia Railway, a collaboration between NR, c2c and Greater Anglia. Lauren will report jointly into GWR’s Head of Stations, James Adeshiyan, and NR’s Head of Passenger Strategy (Western), Susan Evans.