Chairman of Network Rail Sir Peter Hendy has been nominated as a crossbench peer. He was on a list to enter the House of Lords recommended by departing PM Boris Johnson. 

Hendy started his transport career in 1975 as a London Transport graduate trainee. He steadily progressed up the career ladder, becoming managing director of CentreWest London Buses Ltd, managing it under London Transport ownership.

At First Bus he led the firm through a management buyout with staff involvement, and subsequent expansion. In 2001 Hendy was appointed managing director of Surface Transport for London, under Ken Livingstone's mayoralty of London. In 2006 became commissioner of TfL, and continued in post after the election of Boris Johnson as Mayor of London in 2008.