British Rail CEO David Kirby
Posted: Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 7:53 pmMay 12, 1933 - April 12, 2008
David Kirby was, along with the first Sir Robert Reid, one of a distinguished group of able managers who ran British Rail during its most successful period in the 1980s and 1990s. A period commonly described nowadays in the professional, and sometimes even in the national press, as the Golden Age of the railways in this country. …
His fluency in French and German were to make him, at several stages of his career, a formidable ambassador and negotiator for British Rail in continental Europe. When president of the Railway Study Association he quickly learned sufficient Italian to give his speech at the conference dinner in Florence in the language of his hosts. … Read full obituary
