William Barter

William Barter has 50 years’ experience in the rail industry including 16 years with British Rail in operations management and planning. He is also a capable author, having written a variety of published papers and articles, as well as editing franchise bid plans and preparing educational materials.

In connection with major projects, William has made a particular study of the issues surrounding rail network and system capacity, and has worked extensively with specialists in areas including infrastructure and rolling stock engineering, demand forecasting and economics. This culminated in 2012 when he was asked to assist a contractor to HS2 Ltd with preparation of technical reports on operations and capacity issues, which led on to his own work in developing the “proof of concept” timetables both for HS2 itself under Phase 1 and Phase 2 and for the West Coast Main Line after implementation of HS2 Phase 1. As well as feeding into infrastructure development, the HS2 timetables became the basis for operations costing and demand forecasting for Business Cases