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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.

Our directors are amongst the most experienced and respected rail consultants. They have strategic and commercial experience from outside the rail sector as well as within it, and it is this combination that makes our team especially valued by our clients.


Latest News, Views and Opinions

FCP appointed to assist Saudi Arabian government with two major projects
3rd November 2007

A tri-partite consortium of Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), the National Commercial Bank (NCB, the biggest bank in Saudi Arabia) and SNCF International has approached FCP to provide a senior and highly specialist industry resource to manage and protect the interests of the consortium across two very high value and high profile projects that they are financing in Saudi Arabia.
Nelson's Column
8th May 2008

Network Rail must drop the arrogance, read the signs and accept that a move towards a more customer focused railway is inevitable
Key issues arising from the Government's rail strategies
28th November 2007

At a two day conference sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport to consider key issues arising from the Government's Rail strategies, John Nelson closed the proceedings with an address that questioned whether the necessary leadership structures were in place to enable successful delivery. Other speakers at the Conference included Ian Coucher, Chief Executive of Network Rail, Tom Harris MP Minister of State for Transport, Richard Brown, Chief Executive Eurostar, and Theresa Villiers MP, Shadow Secretary of State for the Conservative Party.


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FCP Supports the following charities:

Railway Children Railway Children supports street children, many of whom live in and around railway stations, all over the world. In 2006 Railway Children helped over 24,000 children.

Railway Children was launched at Waterloo station by Bob Horton, then the Chairman of Railtrack; and one of FCP's directors - Tony Roche, then a Main Board Director of British Rail, in May 1995.
Railway Benefit Fund The Railway Benefit Fund was founded in 1858 (as the Railway Benevolent Institute) to provide financial support to current and ex railway employees and their dependents when they need help through illness, injury, bereavement or adversity.



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.
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