Robert Reid (railwayman)

Sir Robert Basil Reid CBE (7 February 1921 – 17 December 1993) was chairman of the British Railways Board from 1983 until[1] 1990.

Not to be confused with Bob Reid (executive).

The son of Sir Robert Niel Reid, KCSI, Governor of Assam from 1937 to 1942,[2] he was educated at Malvern and Brasenose. During World War II he was an Officer in the Royal Tank Regiment.[3] When peace returned he joined the LNER as a Traffic Apprentice. When the "Big Four" merged he rose steadily within British Railways. By 1961 he was a District Passenger manager and by 1967 Planning Manager of the Scottish Region. He was General Manager of the Southern Region from 1974 to 1976; and the Executive Member for Marketing from 1977 to 1980. He became Chief Executive in 1980, and held that post until his appointment as Chairman. He was a Freeman of the City of London and Master of the Information Technologists' Company from 1988 to 1989.[4]

Business positions
Preceded by
Sir Peter Parker		 Chairman of the
British Railways Board
1983–1990		 Succeeded by
Sir Bob Reid

Notes
  1. Hansard
  2. Sir Robert Reid. The Times (London, England), Monday, 26 Oct 1964; pg. 15; Issue 56152
  3. ‘REID, Sir Robert (Basil)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 9 April 2015
  4. Obituary, Independent newspaper (UK)


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