Chairman – Rail Freight Group UK
Lord Tony Berkeley is President of the European Rail Freight Association, is also the spokesperson for the House of Rail, the wider grouping of rail freight interests including F&L, IBS and UIP, who all support rail liberalisation and competition as being good for customers and leading to growth in rail freight.
Based in London, he is also chairman of the Rail Freight Group, the representative body of the UK rail freight industry, which has worked to enable rail freight to grow alongside passenger traffic on the UK’s crowded rail freight network, who now six independent rail freight train operators.
Tony Berkeley sits in the UK House of Lords and was an opposition Transport Spokesperson 1996-7. He is Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Rail Group and of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group.
He is a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He was Public Affairs Manager of Eurotunnel from 1981 until the end of construction of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 and, before that, worked for George Wimpey on a number of multi-discipline projects around the world.
He is President of the UK Marine Pilots Association and a Harbour Commissioner for the port of Fowey in Cornwall.