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Records created and inherited by British Railways Board and British Railways
Records created and inherited by British Railways Board and British Railways. Records of British Railways Board and British Railways, relating to all aspects of the establishment and operation of these services. The records... AN 120 , Chief Civil Engineer's Department AN 129 , and Chief Operating Manager AN 106 Circulars AN 8 , AN 153 , and Directories AN 22 Commercial... 208 Secretary's Department AN 192 ; digital records AN 214 Shipping and International Services Division (Sealink) AN 137 Statistics AN 20 , AN 136
Admin history: interests of the British Railways Board were taken over by the National Freight Corporation. In 1979, the Shipping and International Services Division.... The British Railways Board was supported by six regional railway boards. In addition to its main duty to provide railway services for the carriage of... passengers and goods, the British Railways Board was also responsible for the associated road transport services and was required to co-operate with
Held by: The National Archives - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board Date: 1874 - 2000 Reference: Division within AN Subjects: Computing | Legal | Pay and pensions | Railways | Trade and commerce -
Records inherited and created by British Railways Regions
Records inherited and created by British Railways Regions. Records of the British Railways Regions, established to operate British Railways from 1963, document all aspects of the running of regional railway
Admin history: British Railway Regions were established on 1 January 1963 by the Transport Act of 1962 which re-structured railway services in the UK. The regional... obligation to maintain such boards was removed. In the following year the regional boards were reconstituted as non-statutory organisations. The regional boards continued to maintain regional railway service until 1993.... and North Eastern boards. By 1968, the regional boards were considered to have no essential purpose and the British Railways Board's statutory
Held by: The National Archives - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board Date: 1880 - 1993 Reference: Division within AN Subjects: Railways -
Records of the Railway Executive, 1947-1953
Records of the Railway Executive, 1947-1953. The records of the Railway Executive, set up to oversee the regulation and running of the nationlised railway companies and their undertakings
Admin history: responsible for the management and operation of the former four main-line railway companies, the Great Western Railway Company, the London Midland and Scottish... that part of their undertaking which consists of the operation of the railways. This scheme provided, inter alia, for the abolition of the Railway...The Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission was established under Section 5 of the Transport Act 1947, and came into existence on the
Held by: The National Archives - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board Date: 1947 - 1961 Reference: Division within AN Subjects: Railways -
Records inherited and created by the Railway Executives, 1914-1918 and 1939-1947
Records inherited and created by the Railway Executives, 1914-1918 and 1939-1947. Records of the Railway Executives, established by the government to oversee the running of the railways in wartime, consist of records germane to the... administration and running of the railway companies, and to liaison between the companies and governmental departments. They include copies of... minutes, papers and other records of the Railway Executive Committees, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, in AN 1 and AN 3 respectively; and files of the Railway Executive committee, 1939-1945, in AN 2.
Admin history: At the beginning of the First World War the government became directly involved in the running of the railways through a Railway Executive Committee..., under the general direction of the Board of Trade. The Railway Executive Committee consisted of the general managers of the ten leading railway... through a Railway Executive Committee, under the direction of the Ministry of Transport. The committee consisted of the general managers of the four
Held by: The National Archives - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board Date: 1913 - 1957 Reference: Division within AN Subjects: Railways -
Records inherited and created by British Railways, Research Department
Records inherited and created by British Railways, Research Department. : Director of the Research Department in AN 146 Engineering Division in AN 139 Operational Research Division in AN 142 Vehicle and Track Division in AN... aspects of research primarily concerned with the operation of rolling stock, and include reports of the following divisions of the Research Department... 143 Physics Division in AN 145 Electrical Research Division in AN 147 and AN 150 Chemistry Division and Chemical Research in AN 148 and AN 149 Metallurgy Research Division in AN 152.
Admin history: Operational Research. The Chemistry Division was renamed the Chemical Services Division in 1954. In 1963, it was divided into the Chemical Research Division... rolling stock, and this developed in the twentieth century through and beyond the grouping of the railway companies and the emergrence of the big four... and the Regional Scientific Services Division. In the same year, the Electrical Research Division was formed. In 1972, a major re-organisation renamed
Held by: The National Archives - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board Date: 1951 - 1973 Reference: Division within AN Subjects: Iron, steel and metals | Railways | Research -
Records of the privately owned railway companies (and their predecessors) taken over by the British Transport Commission under the Transport Act 1947
Records of the privately owned railway companies (and their predecessors) taken over by the British Transport Commission under the Transport Act 1947. The records of the Great Western Railway Company (GWR), the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company(LMS), the London and North Eastern Railway... Company (LNER), and the Southern Railway Company(SR), nationalised by the Transport Act of 1947, and of their associated unterakings are in RAIL 1
Admin history: The main trunk of the British railway network was largely the result of promotion undertaken by private companies in two bursts of speculative... marked by the tendency of profitable railway companies to absorb less successful railway and canal companies. Government involvement in the railways in... developed in response to the increasing monopoly power of the railway companies. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the government assumed direct
Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Pre-nationalisation railway companies, pre-nationalisation canal and related companies Date: Dates unknown Reference: Division within RAIL Subjects: Railways | Transport management -
British Railways Board and Successors: Departmental Websites, and Websites of Associated Agencies and Bodies
British Railways Board and Successors: Departmental Websites, and Websites of Associated Agencies and Bodies. This division contains British Railways Board departmental websites, together with websites of agencies and other bodies associated with the. These... the scheduling and selection of these websites, please refer to Operational Selection Policy OSP 27: The selection of government websites. The selected
Arrangement: Versions of the website in this division are listed by date of gather (or crawl), and not all crawl instances may be complete. The websites in this... division are predominantly collected by means of remote harvesting by web crawler. Presentation copies of these websites are held as (W)ARC files by... TNA. The websites in this division may have publications attached with further external links from the website versions. Due to limitations in the
Held by: The National Archives - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board Date: Dates unknown Reference: Division within AN Subjects: Archives and libraries | Communications | Indian Subcontinent | Railways -
Records of Freightliners Ltd
Records of Freightliners Ltd. The records of Freightliners Ltd, set up in 1971 to operate freight transport services, document the establishment and administration of those services. Management and correspondence files can be found in AN 115.
Admin history: ownership of British Railways Board and the National Freight Corporation. Freightliners Ltd was reponsible for and operated freight transport, both land...Freightliners Ltd was established in 1971 as the first company to trade as a subsidiary of the British Railways Board. The company took over the... and seaborne, throughout the UK and abroad. In 1978, following the Transport Act of that year, Freightliners Ltd returned to the control of the British Railways Board.
Held by: The National Archives - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board Date: 1961 - 1981 Reference: Division within AN Subjects: Railways | Transport management -
Records inherited and created by the Ministry of Transport, Shipping Divisions
Records inherited and created by the Ministry of Transport, Shipping Divisions. ; papers of the Shipping Divisions after 1938 in MT 59 , MT 72 and MT 73 ; and correspondence and papers of the Sea Transport Division in MT 40. Also... Railway Department and Statistics Department whilst they were merged with the Railway and Commercial Departments, which would otherwise be found amongst the records of the Board of Trade (BT)....Records of the Ministry of Transport's Shipping Divisions, established to meet the civil and military requirements of the military forces at sea
Admin history: matters; Liner Division, responsible for the operation of the liner requisition scheme instituted in February 1940; Sea Transport Division, responsible for... Shipping had passed in 1921, recommended the formation of a separate Ministry of Shipping to undertake the functions of the Sea Transport Division and... of transport in wartime. The following divisions were taken over from the Ministry of Shipping in 1941: Allocation of Tonnage Division, responsible for
Held by: The National Archives - Ministries of Transport and related bodies Date: 1795 - 1985 Reference: Division within MT Subjects: Armed Forces (General Administration) | Food and drink | Labour | Litigation | Navy | Railways | Shipping | Trade and commerce | Transport management -
Records of the Valuation Office
Records of the Valuation Office. Records of the Valuation Office relating to the administration of land valuation assessments and claims, for estate duty purposes. Registered files are in IR 136...
Admin history: the guidance of a Central Valuation Committee and the Railway Assessment Authority, was performed from 1950 by valuation officers appointed by the Board... coal mining and negotiations for the use of land for such operations. The work of the Office increased so that by the mid-1960s there were twenty-five regional offices. There is a separate Valuation Office for Scotland.
Held by: The National Archives - Boards of Stamps, Taxes, Excise, Stamps and Taxes, and Inland Revenue Date: 1910 - 1985 Reference: Division within IR Subjects: Common land | Indian Subcontinent | Landed estates | Maps and plans | Taxation -
Records of the Explosives Inspectorate, Factory Inspectorate, Health and Safety Executive, and related departments
Records of the Explosives Inspectorate, Factory Inspectorate, Health and Safety Executive, and related departments. . Registered files of the Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health are in LAB 104 , with those of its Medical Services Division in LAB 105 Records... files of the Safety, Health and Welfare Department and successors in LAB 14 , with those concerning the implementation and operation of the Employers
Admin history: and Welfare Division (SHWD) dealt with safety in industry, industrial health and welfare, and supervised the operation of the Offices, Shops and... Services Division (MSD), and operated through a new Factory Inspectorate Division (FID) and MSD. FID comprised the former Factory Inspectorate, but its..., and the operation of the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Acts; it also supervised the work of the Industrial Health and Safety Centre; the second
Held by: The National Archives - Departments responsible for labour and employment matters Date: 1836 - 1996 Reference: Division within LAB Subjects: Labour | Manufacturing | Nuclear energy | Weapons | Welfare -
Records created and inherited by the Hotels Executive and successors
Records created and inherited by the Hotels Executive and successors. The records of the Hotels Executive and successors, set up to provide management and operation of the former railway hotels, station refreshment
Admin history: been operated by the constituent companies of British Railways. In 1953 the Hotels Executive was replaced by the British Transport Hotels and Catering... Services Division in accordance with the terms of the Transport Act 1953. Under the Transport Act 1962, British Transport Hotels Ltd, a subsidiary... company of the British Railways Board, was created to operate the board's hotels and catering services. In 1973, the station and train catering services
Held by: The National Archives - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board Date: 1835 - 1988 Reference: Division within AN Subjects: Railways -
Records created and inherited by the British Transport Commission and successors
Records created and inherited by the British Transport Commission and successors. and circulars in AN 84 Commercial and operating agreements in AN 5 Traffic and private sidings agreements in AN 138 Press notices in AN 79 Records of...Records of the British Transport Commission, established to oversee the transport executives which operated national transport services following the... the railways staff conference in AN 98 Administrative records of the British Transport Historical Records Office in AN 104 Industrial Relations
Admin history: Hotels Executive, the Railway Executive, the Road Transport Executive, (later the Road Haulage Executive and the Road Passenger Executive), and the... assumed by the British Transport Commission itself. The London Transport Executive continued to function but the Railway Executive was abolished and...The British Transport Commission was established by theTransport Act of 1947 which nationalised the railways, long-distance road haulage and various
Held by: The National Archives - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board Date: 1928 - 1996 Reference: Division within AN Subjects: Banking | Labour | Litigation | Mining and quarrying | Railways | Trade and commerce | Transport management -
Records of the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive and successors
Records of the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive and successors. The records of the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive and successors, set up to oversee the operation of the canals and formerly railway-owned... nationlised railway docks, documenting the administration of those bodies. They include minutes of the British Transport Commission, Docks and Inland
Admin history: The Docks and Inland Waterways Executive was established by the Transport Act 1947 which acquired for the state ownership of railways, canals, docks... Ministry of Transport, was to oversee the operation of these nationalised means of transport. The Docks and Inland Waterways Executive was abolished under
Held by: The National Archives - British Transport Commission and the British Railways Board Date: 1947 - 1975 Reference: Division within AN Subjects: Railways | Transport management -
Records of the General Library
Records of the General Library. Records of the General Library of the Natural History Museum. DF 600 Director's Office: Head of the General Library's Correspondence DF 601 Director's Office: Head...
Admin history: Operating within the Director's Office was the General Library, which was set up by resolution of the Trustees in March 1880, to house books and... staff of nine by 1964, when he was killed in a railway accident. Maldwyn Jones Rowlands (1918-1995), who had worked in the Science Museum and the Patents... new department had a staff of forty two, who operated six reading rooms and received nearly 8,500 visitors a year. The Department was acquiring 25,000
Held by: The Natural History Museum Archives, London - Natural History Museum Date: 1878 - 1984 Reference: Division within DF
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