Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Waterways and Railways General (WRG Series) Files

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Details of MT 140
Reference: MT 140
Title: Transport Ministries: Waterways and Railways General (WRG Series) Files
Description:

This series consists of registered files of the Ministry of Transport: Waterways and Railways General Division, relating to inland waterways, water conservation, packet ports, the London Travel Committee, and papers of the Joint Anglo-French Working Party on the Channel Crossing.

Some files from the RA (MT 124), RIW (MT 115) and LP series (MT 135) were re-registered under the new WRG prefix. The WRG file series continued to be used until 1963.
Date: 1959-1968
Separated material:

Some files from this series were re-registered in:

NTA: MT 87

NTB: MT 88

LP: MT 135
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: WRG Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Transport, Nationalised Transport Division B, 1962-1970

Ministry of Transport, Railways and Inland Waterways Division, 1959-1962

Ministry of Transport, Waterways and Railways General Division, 1962-1962
Physical description: 59 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1991 Department of Transport
Administrative / biographical background:

On 1 February 1962 the Railways A and B Divisions were reorganised and an additional division was created, the Waterways and Railways General (WRG) Division. In September 1962 a further reorganisation occurred and the Nationalised Transport A and B Divisions were established. The work of WRG Division was largely divided between these new Divisions. Functions relating to London transport were transferred to the London Policy Division.

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