About FCP
First Class Partnerships is the premier railway consulting practice for the industry's policy and decision makers in public authorities and private companies. The people we can field are unrivalled by any other UK rail industry consultancy. We provide functional experts and generalists with current experience of the strategic and business issues faced by industry players but our experience has been embedded in railways over many decades.It is a pre-qualification of our company's directors that they must have operated at Board level in their chosen sector. It is a pre-requisite that they must have held leading roles in the rail industry in the recent past. It is important not just that our consultants have strong functional expertise but also that the context in which it is applied must be relevant and up-to-date.
Our individual and collective experience spans the public and private sectors and we have been providing advice on strategy at a personal level to CEOs and MDs of companies and public authorities alike, as well as to their Boards and senior managements, since 1999.
We have come a long way in a short time and have a client list that stretches from London to many other parts of the world. Our clients in the UK include all the top names in the industry ranging from Government agencies, the Office of Rail Regulation, Transport for London, Passenger Transport Executives, Transport Scotland and almost every Train Operating Company and owning group. Overseas we have undertaken assignments in Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, the United States of America, Argentina and South Africa. We have operating bases in London, York, Vienna, Buenos Aires and Johannesburg.
We are increasingly undertaking assignments for banks, investors, insurance companies and other rail and non-rail consultancies. We are actively involved in the innovation front end with direct experience of launching new passenger and freight operations, developing bids for massive public concessions and helping realign Eurostar to maximise the advent of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
Engineering advice has also been provided for significant renewal programmes at home and abroad and strategic input made to support a number of rolling stock procurement processes.
The ultimate bottom line is that FCP is retained by the UK Department for Transport and Transport Scotland as the operator of last resort in the event of the operational or financial failure of a franchise. Our confidence in the ability to field a qualified team meeting safety case requirements at very short notice is a testimony to the depth of experience that we can offer.
First Class Partnerships provides strategic, commercial, operations, engineering and infrastructure rail consultancy and advice to leading rail companies, investors in rail, governments and regulators around the globe.