Catalogue description Department of Transport: Records of the former Strategic Rail Authority; Registered Files (SRA Series)

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Reference: LM 13
Title: Department of Transport: Records of the former Strategic Rail Authority; Registered Files (SRA Series)
Description:

The files in this series relate to the award and management of passenger rail franchises to train operating companies.
Date: 1994-2005
Related material:

Records of the Railways Divisions of the Department of Transport are in: MT 214
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SRA Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Transport, 2002-

Office of Passenger Rail Franchising, 1993-

Strategic Rail Authority, 2001-2006
Physical description: 12 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2018 Department for Transport
Custodial history: Department for Transport 2007, onwards.
Accumulation dates: From 2007
Selection and destruction information: Due to the newness of the SRA prefix only high profile files relating to the future of the Settle and Carlisle line have so far been recommended for retention. Files selected in the future will concern similarly high profile elements of the railway system and the higher direction of the Strategic Rail Authority.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Under the provisions of the Railways Act 2005 the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) ceased to exist from 1 December 2006. The functions of the SRA were divided between Network Rail, the Office of Rail Regulation and the Department of Transport.

The SRA prefix was set up for the Department of Transport Rail Group in early 2007 to allow for the transfer of files. Files relate to those operations of the former SRA that dealt with the award and operation of passenger rail franchises to train operating companies. Some files were re-registered to SRA prefix from the OPRAF prefix of the former Office of Passenger Rail Franchising which had been absorbed into the Strategic Rail Authority following the Transport Act 2000.

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