What we do
Our team has experience of all kinds of passenger and freight railway, in the management of the infrastructure on which they operate and of the fleets that serve them. Our freight experience includes both bulk and intermodal services.Our capabilities cover the full range of what it means to operate in the rail sector today.
- We provide advice on policy to government and strategy to private companies in equal measure.
- We have a complete understanding of all the commercial aspects of running railways whether in the public or private sector or at the interface between the two. Business and financial planning, due diligence, leading and supporting bids are amongst our key skills.
- We have operating expertise in running all kinds of passenger and freight railway, in the management of the infrastructure on which they operate and of the fleets that serve them.
- We can provide a range of highly qualified people as interim managers, facilitators, expert witnesses, and also to act as mentors providing career advice to others.
- We have expertise in all railway engineering disciplines and can field individuals who have occupied the most senior positions in the industry with skills and experience covering traction and rolling stock, civil, structural and permanent way engineering, signalling and telecommunications, electrification and plant.
- We have extensive operating and commercial expertise in the running of freight railways, both intermodal and bulk-haul.
- We have the capability to manage projects and programmes of all kinds within the railway context – commercial and operational as well as technical.
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.