Catalogue description Department of Transport and Successors: Channel Tunnel Fixed Link Divisions: Registered Files (CHT and CHT-A prefixes)

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Reference: LM 8
Title: Department of Transport and Successors: Channel Tunnel Fixed Link Divisions: Registered Files (CHT and CHT-A prefixes)
Description:

The records within this series include papers of the Bill Team and briefing on proposed rail services used by the Official Historian, and a complete set of existing files on the Inter-Governmental Commission.

Many pieces contain plans, diagrams and technical drawings.
Date: 1985-2004
Arrangement:

Records are arranged in chronological and prefix order
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CHT and CHT-A prefixes
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001

Department of Transport, 1976-1997
Physical description: 384 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2017 Department for Transport
Custodial history: Department of Transport, from 1989 to 1996. Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, from 1997 to 2001. Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions, from 2001 to 2002. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, from 2002 to 2006. Department for Transport, from 2006 onwards.
Accumulation dates: 1986 onwards
Selection and destruction information: These files have been used by the appointed Official Historian. As such, the relevant files used have been selected.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Channel Fixed Link Division (CFL) was formed as part of the International Directorate of the Department of Transport in 1986. It was responsible for organisational, technical and financial policy on the Channel Tunnel and sponsorship of the UK element of the Anglo-Franch Working Group which had grown out of meetings jointly convened by the two countries Prime Ministers in 1981.

In 1987 the Division was split into two, with CFL 1 constituting the Bill Team and CFL 2 continuing with policy responsibilities.

In 1988 the two divisions were re-united and in 1989 the duties of the Division were further defined as co-ordination of policy on the Channel Tunnel, provision of a secretariat for the Channel Tunnel and sponsorship of the Inter-Governmental Commission, the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority, the UK Plenary Committee, the Kent Consultative Committees and any relevant sub-committes of these bodies.

Physical construction of the Channel Tunnel commenced in 1988 and it was opened in 1994.

The Division was transferred to the Railways Directorate in 1995 and in 1998 it was retitiled Channel Tunnel and Rail Link Division. The focus of the Division moved away from the Channel Tunnel to the high speed rails link on the UK side.

Use of the CHT prefixes fades away after the Channel Tunnel was opened, with the exceptions of the records of the Inter-Governmental Commission.

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