Strategic proposals for another reorganization of the British rail industry surfaced in 2011. A 'vertical reintegration' was suggested, with train-operating companies owning and running tracks and stations. Such a strategy, it suggested, would make the companies more profitable, and might attract capital from international asset management companies and private equity funds. In February 2011, newly appointed chief executive, David Higgins, said: 'Now we start a new chapter... as Network Rail seeks to build trust.' Unhappily that month, an inquest into the deaths of two schoolgirls on a level crossing found that Network Rail, trying to protect its safety record, had failed to provide a public inquiry with a risk assessment that had exposed the dangers years before.