sponsor

If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities at this event then please contact: Danny Featherstone, Project Manager Email: danny.featherstone@terrapinn.com Tel: +44 (0)207 827 4160 Fax: +44 (0)207 242 1508

Official Legal Sponsor

Simmons & Simmons is a world-class law firm with over 950 legal staff in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. We have one of the largest dedicated rail practices in the world with a core team of 40 lawyers all of whom have extensive rail industry and rail law experience. We advise clients internationally in all sectors of the railway industry and on all legal aspects of the business. We have a track record acting for governments, public bodies and private operators on railway projects of national and international importance, and we have been consistently ranked 1st for rail in the UK in the Legal 500. www.simmons-simmons.com Gold sponsors

To meet the challenge of increased mobility, Alcatel offers a host of new railway solutions to move people and goods safely through the network in a comfortable, reliable and cost-effective way. Drawing on a wide international experience in all aspects of transport automation and network integration and services, Alcatel is a leading worldwide supplier for signaling and train control, train routing, control centers and integrated communications solutions to carry and distribute voice, data and video to and from all sites of urban and main line rail. Whether enhancing, renewing or building a new network, Alcatel is an ideal partner to address the needs of rail operators through customized solutions and a full set of professional services from conceptual design to turnkey delivery. Alcatel has marked transport industry milestones lately offering more security to the passengers with its innovative real time on-board video surveillance solution and providing reliability and safety with its advanced automatic train control based on wireless communication technology. With sales of EURO 12.5 billion in 2003, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: www.alcatel.com/rail   HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2004, HP revenue totaled $78.4 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.

Silver Sponsors

PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients. More than 120,000 people in 139 countries connect their thinking, experience and solutions to build public trust and enhance value for clients and their stakeholders. As the leading provider of financial, procurement, tax and accounting advisory services to the public and private sectors on PPP projects around the world, PwC continues to lead the Project Finance International league tables for the total value of successful deals won. To date this includes advice on over 240 signed projects around the world, with a total capital of over US $44 billion. Our experience in the global PPP/ project finance market over the last ten years includes advising public sector bodies on projects in a wide range of sectors such as transport (e.g. London Underground PPP, the largest PPP created to date), defence, prisons, education and health. Within the international market PwC has established PPP frameworks in countries including Ireland, South Africa, Japan and Germany, and advised on a range of projects in other territories including Canada and Australia. For further information about how our expert team can help you or to download a copy of our recently published thought leadership entitled The trans-European transport network – from aspiration to reality, please visit www.pwc.com/igu.

Angel Trains International finances the construction and supply of new railway rolling stock, rebuilding and modernisation of existing stock. Angel Trains is Europe's leading train leasing business, owning 5,000 vehicles and it has invested around €3.8 billion in new trains. Headquartered in the UK, it also has offices in Germany and Belgium and is planning to open offices in Spain and Italy. www.angeltrains.com

Associate Sponsors

L.E.K. Consulting’s global rail practice is a leader in its field, advising railway operators, infrastructure managers, policymakers and regulators around the world. L.E.K. provides client-specific advisory support on a broad range of strategic, commercial, economic and financial issues facing the industry, underpinned by a depth of research and analysis. Our senior team has worked together in rail continuously since 1995 and has completed over 300 studies for leading clients. In the deregulating European rail industry, L.E.K. works with both public and private sector organisations, and at the interfaces between the two, to help clients gain competitive advantage and achieve the results required by their investors and stakeholders. Recent European engagements included internationalisation strategies, integrated transport plans, pricing optimisation, franchise bid support, cost efficiency improvements, and the economic justification for public subsidy. As a leading international strategic consultancy, L.E.K. has more than 500 staff in 16 offices worldwide. Tel: +44 20 7389 7200 www.lek.com

Corus manufactures and supplies customers with one of the widest and most comprehensive rail product ranges in the world from facilities in the UK and France. The business has expert knowledge of all rail sectors including heavy haul, mixed and urban transport. Expertise, developed over 125 years of manufacturing and metallurgy, provides the foundation for Corus’ authority in rail products. This gives the business a unique range of products and services that are driven by world leading metallurgy skills, a deep understanding of track product design and manufacture, right through to how these products behave during and after installation in the railway. Corus can also offer a wide range of railway infrastructure services. www.muchmorethanrail.com/en

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CLECAT was established in 1958 in Brussels, where it represents today 24 national organisations of European multinational, medium and small freight forwarders and Customs agents, thus representing the largest and oldest institution of its kind. Our members voice the interests of more than 19.000 companies employing in excess of 1.000.000 staff. CLECAT promotes the activity and defends the interests of its members in connection with a large number of institutional and non-institutional counterparts. It has a voice where a regulatory environment concerning transport formalities and transport modes is created, in the intent of securing a uniform and seamless environment, where cargo can move freely and securely for the benefit of the whole international trade, with due respect to issues such as security and environment. www.clecat.org

EIM is the international association representing the European Rail Infrastructure Managers of the 10 national networks of Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Slovenia. Eurotunnel, the privately owned Channel Tunnel company, is also a member. EIM is committed to providing efficient, neutral and transparent infrastructure services to both the state-owned national railways and privately owned train operating companies on a non-discriminatory basis. As such, EIM support the European Community initiatives as set out in the First, Second and Third ‘Railway Packages’, and acts in support to the EC in the evolution of transport policy www.eimrail.org

The Railway Forum is an industrywide body sponsored and paid for by most of the train operating companies, the rolling stock leasing companies, the Passenger Transport Executives, Network Rail, London Underground, and many manufacturing and infrastructure companies, as well as other businesses connected with the railways. In all, we have over 60 members. We are complementary to the other rail associations, who are themselves members of the Forum: The Association of Train Operating Companies, The Railway Industry Association, and The Passenger Transport Executive Group. Our key role is to act as a think tank, information exchange and point of contact for those committed to and interested in our industry. We are particularly proud of our role in promoting the railway industry’s achievements in innovation. www.railwayforum.com

The RFG is the representative body of the rail freight industry, covering suppliers, manufacturers, and customers, operators and contractors who, together, make the business work. Its objective is to increase the volume and market share of freight carried profitably by rail. RFG seeks to achieve these objectives by organising meetings, visits, by responding to consultation papers as well as by lobbying, and it sponsors the All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group. It seeks to involve the media in positive comment and news where possible, and publishes a newsletter, circulated to nearly 2,000 opinion formers, generally every two months. It also provides informal advice and information to members on a confidential basis. www.rfg.org.uk

The European Shippers' Council represents the interests of European industry as users of all modes of transport. The 14 national member organisations represent all braches of industry and commerce, who in turn represent thousands of companies who transport the majority of cargo shipped by road, rail, inland waterways and sea within Europe as well as overseas. www.europeanshippers.org The ESC operates from offices in Brussels and has amongst its priorities to promote efficient and commercially attractive freight transport services and to enhance the competitiveness of companies conducting business in Europe and in overseas markets.

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