Winsor warns railway of fresh threat to independent regulation

Tom Winsor: ‘very real threat posed to independent regulation’

Tom Winsor: ‘very real threat posed to independent regulation’

Former rail regulator Tom Winsor has warned that the rail industry has failed to recognise a new threat posed to independent economic regulation by a new Bill that is close to becoming law.

Winsor, who is now a partner at City law firm White & Case, raises the issue in the foreword to the Transport Law Review 2006, which is sponsored by Transit and Bircham Dyson Bell.

“It appears that no-one in the private sector railway has noticed the very real threat posed to independent economic...