Sir Thomas Legg brings senior-level Government and other experience to
Central Railway, of which he has been a director since 2001. A barrister, he
joined the Lord Chancellor's Department (now the Department of
Constitutional Affairs) in 1962 and served as its Permanent Secretary from
1989 to 1998, when he retired from the civil service. Since then he has,
among other things, conducted the Sierra Leone Arms Investigation, been
Chairman of the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, a consultant to Clifford
Chance and an external member of the House of Commons Audit Committee.
He was made a QC in 1990 and knighted in 1993.

Alan Stevens is a founding director of Central Railway. He is responsible for
the overall financial management of the company as Chief Financial Officer,
for the development of the project and, in particular, its commercial revenue
case. In addition, he has developed the project’s market and business cases.
Prior to joining Central Railway, he worked in the project finance department
at Schroders (now part of Citigroup). Alan was educated at Christ’s College,
Cambridge and has an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Central Railway is proposing to build and operate a privately financed railway
from Liverpool to northern France via the Channel Tunnel. The main service
will be a lorries-on-trains freight service aimed at the cross channel haulage
market. The company has requested a hybrid Bill in Parliament to approve the
project, which has been developed in close cooperation with French rail
interests. Central Railway does not seek any public subsidy and proposes that
a parliamentary bill should prevent the Government from making any
payments to the company.

Andrew Gritten founded the Central Railway project with Alan Stevens and
had been Chairman since Central Railway plc was first formed in 1995. He
had the vision to see that the opening of the Channel Tunnel has created an
opportunity for an international lorries-on-trains service, based on the
commercially successful American model. Andrew put together a consortium
of engineers, bankers and property advisers to develop the scheme and has
been largely responsible for attracting resources and support from top firms
keen to participate in a successful investment in Britain’s transport system.
Andrew was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.