Association of Community Rail Partnerships Rolling Stock Conference

22 September 2006

Anthony Smith, Passenger Focus chief executive, will be speaking at the Association of Community Rail Partnerships (ACoRP) Rolling Stock Conference on Friday 22 September 2006 in Darlington, County Durham, as part of Community Railfest and the Community Rail Awards. Anthony will speak for 20 minutes, to be followed by a 10 minute question and answer session.

The key themes of the conference will be

• what next after the Pacer?
• what does the passenger want?
• what does the train operator want?
• what can you do with what you already have?
• with investment – what is possible?
• changing the operational parameters.