Case Study: London & Continental Railways completes £2.1bn High Speed 1 sale in under 3 months with IntraLinks

London & Continental Railways - Customer Case Study

London & Continental Railways (LCR), the UK government-owned company overseeing the High Speed 1 concession, needed a secure, external virtual data room to support a fast, compliant due diligence process for potential bidders—its internal EDMS couldn’t safely share sensitive documents with external parties. With a high-value sale on the line, LCR required a solution that provided controlled access across legal, technical, finance, insurance and environmental disciplines.

LCR implemented IntraLinks’ VDR, leveraging features like bulk uploads, granular permissions, an integrated Q&A module and audit tracking to streamline document sharing and bidder interaction. The platform enabled 24/7 secure access and rapid collaboration, and within three months LCR completed the £2.1 billion sale to Borealis Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan while citing improved efficiency, confidentiality and actionable insight into bidder activity.

London & Continental Railways

Kit Kaberry

Manager Vdd/Vdr Of London & Continental Railways