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GRAHAM Eccles joined British Rail straight from school at the age of 16, but was rejected as a staff entrant on BR’s Management Training Scheme as being“too shy to make a manager”.
Over time he progressed through the operating ranks to become a regional operations manager, director of operations and safety for Network SouthEast and, finally, divisional manager for the South Central Division of NSE.
He headed a management buy-out at Privatisation for South Central, which he lost, moving on
