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Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Railways and Inland Waterways (RA, RB, RC, RYC and RFR Series) Files
| Reference: | MT 124 |
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| Title: | Transport Ministries: Railways and Inland Waterways (RA, RB, RC, RYC and RFR Series) Files |
| Description: |
This series contains papers of the three railway divisions of the Railways and Inland Waterways Division of the Transport ministries, covering all aspects of the work of the British Railways Board; questions of railway closure and uneconomic services; general railway matters, including capital investment, such as railway electrification; ferries, light railways, transport in London and relations with international organizations; draft legislation and consultation over the 1961-1962 Transport Bill, and later implementation of the Transport Act 1962; the inquiry into the railway accident at a level crossing in Hixon; and the Channel Tunnel. Also included are papers of the Transport Users Consultative Committees, the Interdepartmental Working Party on the Beeching Plan, and the (Serpell) committee on the review of railway finances. Some material on canals and inland waterways is also included. Some files of the LP series (otherwise in MT 135) have been re-registered in the RA and RC series. |
| Date: | 1922-1995 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | RA, RB, RC , RYC and RFR |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department of the Environment, Nationalised Transport Division A, 1970-1976 Department of Transport, 1976-1997 Department of Transport, Transport Industries Division, 1978-1985 Ministry of Shipping, Directorate of Shipping in Port, 1939-1941 Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Docks and Canal Division, 1953-1954 Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Ports and Inland Waterways Division, 1954-1955 Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Railways and Inland Waterways Division, 1955-1959 Ministry of Transport, Docks and Canal Division, 1934-1941 Ministry of Transport, Docks and Canal Division, 1946-1953 Ministry of Transport, Nationalised Transport Division A, 1962-1970 Ministry of Transport, Nationalised Transport Division B, 1962-1970 Ministry of Transport, Ports and Transit Division, 1938-1941 Ministry of Transport, Railways and Inland Waterways Division, 1959-1962 Ministry of Transport, Waterways and Railways General Division, 1962-1962 Ministry of War Transport, Port and Transit Control, 1941-1946 |
| Physical description: | 2022 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1985 Department of Transport |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Railways and Inland Waterways Division was formed in 1955 with the transfer of responsibility for inland waterways, previously exercised by the Ports and Inland Waterways Division, to the Railway Division. In 1961 the Division was split into four; a Railways Division A responsible for all matters relating to the British Railways Board; a Railways Division B responsible for questions of railway closure and uneconomic services; a Railways Division C responsible for the preparation and implementation of the Government's proposals for the reorganisation of the structure of the nationalised transport boards controlled by the British Transport Commission, including all work on the Transport Act 1962; and a Rivers and Canals Division responsible for inland waterways. In 1963 following the abolition of the British Transport Commission by the Transport Act the work of Railways C was absorbed by Nationalised Transport A and the work of Rivers and Canals Division was absorbed by Nationalised Transport B Division, which had responsibility for the newly created British Waterways Board. By 1976 there were again three Railways divisions, A, B and C. In 1982 a committee to review railway finances over the next twenty years was appointed. |
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