He led O&Y's involvement in planning and promotion of the Jubilee Line Extension and also instigated the re-signaling and re-engineering of the Docklands Light Railway.
He subsequently testified in the House of Lords for the Kings Cross Residents Association and argued against the plans to demolish their neighborhood for a new rail terminus.
The Indian Pacific and Ghan services of the Australian National Railways, GB Railfreight, and Hull Trains continue to operate without subsidy.
[6][7] In 2013, Schabas authored a review of “The Big Move”, Toronto’s regional transport plan for Neptis, a Canadian charitable foundation.
Schabas and his firm FCP were subsequently retained by Metrolinx, the regional transit agency, to prepare an initial business case that led to the provincial government funding the project, now known as GO Expansion, with a total capital cost of about $20 billion.