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The Department of Transport have appointed Richard Ellis to act as their property advisers for the flotation of Railtrack and to provide the Government with advice on the property aspects of other elements of railways privatisation.
NOTE TO EDITORS
The Secretary of State for Transport announced on 24 November that the Government was to privatise Railtrack by Stock Market flotation within the lifetime of the present Parliament (PN 452).