Division within MT1873-2000Records inherited and created by the Ministry of Transport and successors, Commissions, Tribunals and Inquiries
Records of the commissions, tribunals and inquiries of the Ministry of Transport, established to enforce transport statutes, regulate the means of transport, and investigate accidents, include:
case papers of the Railway and Canal Commission in MT 68;
records of appeals to the Light Railways Commissioners in MT 130;
minutes of the Royal Commission on Transport in MT 42;
transcripts of the Inquiry into the Clapham Junction Railway Accident in MT 143; records of the Inquiry into the King's Cross Underground Fire in MT 141;
records of the Committee of Inquiry into the Major Ports of Great Britain in MT 161;
There are several series concerning investigations into the loss of MV Derbyshire:
loss of MV Derbyshire, Deep Ocean Survey records, in MT 202 with digital records in MT 204;
re-opened formal investigation into the loss of MV Derbyshire, in MT 203, with digital records in MT 205;
files of Lord Donaldson's Inquiry, following the location of the wreck of MV Derbyshire in MT 209;
the formal Inquiry into the loss of the MV Derbyshire in MT 213.