ATOC Public Affairs

The Public Affairs team works to influence key individuals and organisations on behalf of train operators. This falls into two main sections – lobbying government and political parties, and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders in the rail sector and more widely.

• Train operators are subject to a considerable framework of policy, legislation and regulation, and so ATOC maintains high-level relationships with ministers, government bodies and the main political parties. This is vital in:

- influencing future government and party policy
- addressing urgent and emerging issues
- keeping Ministers and MPs up to date with what train operators are doing

• We manage ATOC’s relationships with key passenger rail stakeholders, ensuring regular contact with Network Rail, the Office of the Rail Regulator and the Department for Transport, and other key rail-interested organisations, such as Passenger Focus and Transport for London.
• We also maintain strong links with the business community, as a member of the CBI, and with contacts on key issues such as the environment, access for disabled people and linking rail with other forms of transport.

More information

Passenger Rail – the way forward: This recent leaflet, distributed to all political parties, sets out ATOC’s key lobbying objectives.

Policy positions: In order to guide our lobbying work, ATOC has published policy positions on a wider number of issues. You can read them here.

Contact ATOC public affairs

If you would like to know more about ATOC Public Affairs, please contact Andy Taylor on 020 7841 8022 or by email.