“We don’t build railways just for the sake of building a railway. We do it because we are going to transform people’s lives.”

Steve Butcher started his career 38 years ago with British Rail by sweeping platforms. Now, he is the Executive General Manager at John Holland. In this episode, Butcher discusses the design, build, operate, and maintain model, and what it’s like to be part of billion-dollar projects within the rail space.

He also goes into how important detail is for these massive projects. These projects are setting the agenda for generations to come, and what they look like from day one will be different from year seven. And as Butcher says, it’s about making “railways as easy as going to the pub or the chip shop… [it’s making] public transport so easy that people don’t even think of any other mode of transport.”

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