Showing posts with label Angel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angel. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Angel appoints Rowlands as Chairman - Doomed

Telegrammed by the Raver
So Sir David Rowlands has become Chairman of Angel Trains.


What a busy life he leads!

How he packs it all in we will never know.

According to Angel's puff piece Rowlands is also:

...chairman of London Gatwick Airport... a member of the Royal Automobile Club Foundation’s public policy committee... a governor of Anglia Ruskin University and deputy chairman of The Lifeboat Fund, a public service charity.

Not forgetting of course his current position as non-executive Chairman of High Speed 2 - a role he relinquishes in February this year.

Strange that a man who tried to squeeze the rail industry when he was Permanent Secretary at the Department now seems to be profiting from it in all sorts of ways.

Nice work if you can get it.

UPDATE: This from Sir Humphrey Beeching...

The Raver appears to have omitted Sir David's great gift for PR and media relations.

Why only last September he managed to infuriate RAIL by issuing a statement denying a story that his own staff had briefed out to the media.


Angel's loss will surely be HS2's gain!

Thursday, 1 October 2009

There was an Angel, an Abbott and a Nomad...

This from nebusiness.co.uk...


LEADING rail industry operator Haydn Abbott has joined the board of Newcastle vehicle communications specialist Nomad Digital.

There has to be a joke in this somewhere...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Vincent departs Angel for South America

Jane Vincent, Angel Trains Communications Manager for the last four years, leaves the company today as part of the Rosco's redundancy programme.

Jane, previously with ATOC, will be using her new found freedom to take a "6 week trek in South America next month."

As ever the The Fact Compiler stands in awe of Ms Vincent - who else could cram six weeks into four?

Best of luck Jane. The team at Eye hope to see you back in the industry soon.

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Angel to cut staff?

***18 jobs 'at risk' at Angel Trains***