Claim: John Kay Welsby, the chief executive of the British Railways Board from 1990 until 1998, was educated at Heywood Grammar School, the University of Exeter and the University of London; then he was  in the Government Economic Service from 1966 to 1981.
Evidence: John Kay Welsby, CBE was Chief Executive of the British Railways Board from 1990 until 1998; and its Chairman from 1995 to 1999. Welsby was educated at Heywood Grammar School, the University of Exeter and the University of London. He was in the Government Economic Service from 1966 to 1981 when he joined the British Railways Board.