| Post: | Minister of State for Rail |
| Insignia: | Coat of arms of the United Kingdom (2022, lesser arms).svg |
| Insigniacaption: | Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government |
| Department: | Department for Transport |
| Incumbent: | Peter Hendy, Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill |
| Incumbentsince: | 8 July 2024 |
| Style: | Minister |
| Reports To: | Secretary of State for Transport |
| Nominator: | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| Appointer: | The King |
| Termlength: | At His Majesty's pleasure |
| First: | Lynda Chalker |
The Minister of State for Rail is a mid-level ministerial position in the Department for Transport of the Government of the United Kingdom. The minister is deputy to the Secretary of State for Transport.
| Name (Cabinet status) | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | Transp.Sec. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynda Chalker | 18 October 1983 | 10 January 1986 | Conservative | Thatcher | Ridley | ||||
| David Mitchell | 23 January 1986 | 25 July 1988 | |||||||
| Michael Portillo | 25 July 1988 | 4 May 1990 | |||||||
| Roger Freeman | 4 May 1990 | 20 July 1994 | |||||||
| Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara | 23 July 1990 | 14 April 1992 | |||||||
| The Earl of Caithness | 14 April 1992 | 11 January 1994 | Major | Rifkind MacGregor Mawhinney Young | |||||
| John Watts | 20 July 1994 | 2 May 1997 | |||||||
| Gavin Strang (in Cabinet) | 2 May 1997 | 18 June 1998 | Labour | Blair | Prescott (DPM, SSETR) | ||||
| John Reid (attended Cabinet) | 27 July 1998 | 17 May 1999 | |||||||
| Helen Liddell | 17 May 1999 | 29 July 1999 | |||||||
| Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston (attended Cabinet) | 29 July 1999 | 8 June 2001 | |||||||
| John Spellar (attended Cabinet) | 8 June 2001 | 12 June 2003 | Byers (SSTLR) | ||||||
| height=15 style="background-color: " | Darling | ||||||||
| Kim Howells | 12 June 2003 | 10 September 2004 | |||||||
| Tony McNulty | 10 September 2004 | 9 May 2005 | |||||||
| height=15 style="background-color: " | Stephen Ladyman | 9 May 2005[1] | 28 June 2007 | ||||||
| Alexander | |||||||||
| Rosie Winterton | 28 June 2007 | 3 October 2008 | Brown | Kelly | |||||
| Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis | 3 October 2008 | 5 June 2009 | Hoon | ||||||
| Sadiq Khan (attended Cabinet when his responsibilities were on the agenda) | 9 June 2009[2] | 11 May 2010 | Adonis | ||||||
| Theresa Villiers | 12 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Conservative | Cameron | Hammond | ||||
| Simon Burns | 5 September 2012 | 5 October 2013 | McLoughlin | ||||||
| The Baroness Kramer | 5 October 2013 | 8 May 2015 | Liberal Democrats | ||||||
| John Hayes | 15 July 2014 | 11 May 2015 | Conservative | ||||||
| Robert Goodwill | 11 May 2015 | 16 July 2016 | |||||||
| John Hayes | 16 July 2016 | 9 January 2018 | May | Grayling | |||||
| Jo Johnson | 9 January 2018 | 9 November 2018 | |||||||
| Jesse Norman | 12 November 2018 | 23 May 2019 | |||||||
| Michael Ellis | 23 May 2019 | 24 July 2019 | |||||||
| George Freeman | 26 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 | Johnson | Shapps | |||||
| Chris Heaton-Harris | 25 July 2019 | 19 December 2021 | |||||||
| Andrew Stephenson | 13 February 2020 | 7 July 2022 | |||||||
| Wendy Morton | 19 December 2021 | 6 September 2022 | |||||||
| Trudy Harrison | 7 July 2022 | 7 September 2022 | |||||||
| Kevin Foster | 7 September 2022 | 26 October 2022 | Truss | Trevelyan | |||||
| Lucy Frazer | 8 September 2022 | 26 October 2022 | |||||||
| Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology | |||||||||
| Jesse Norman | 26 October 2022 | 13 November 2023 | Sunak | Harper | |||||
| Minister of State for Rail and HS2 | |||||||||
| Huw Merriman | 27 October 2022 | 5 July 2024 | |||||||
| Minister of State for Rail | |||||||||
| Peter Hendy, Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill | 8 July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | Starmer | Haigh | ||||