General series drawn from a variety of sources, principally of the pre-nationalisation...

This artificial collection was accumulated initially by the British Transport Commission following the Transport Act of 1947. The records are drawn from a variety of sources, including the London Passenger Transport Board established by the London Passenger Transport Act of 1933, and from related organisations and private collections. They include:

• Board of Trade, Railway Department records.
• Ministry of Transport records.
• Bye-laws and regulations.
• Canals, docks and shipping reports.
• Ceremonial and royalty records.
• Commission and committee reports.
• Company, etc, reports and accounts.
• General information.
• Hotels.
• International Railway Congress Proceedings etc.
• Labour and staff matters.
• Law cases and arbitrations.
• Records of companies taken over by the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933 and some records relating to London Transport.
• Maps, plans and surveys.
• Mineral statistics.
• Miscellaneous records.
• Parliamentary acts, reports.
• Patents.
• Prospectuses.
• Railway Clearing House records.
• Railway Companies' Association.
• Railway Rates Tribunal.
• Railway Students' Association.
• Railway Staff Conference.
• Stock and share certificates,
• Subscription contracts.
• Timetables and shareholders' guides.

These records were arranged into subject groupings by the BTHR Office whose registry system allocated them series references. Records transferred into the BTHR Office in the years following the period of nationalisation up to 1977, related by subject to existing series, joined those series and were given series references.

Topics

Litigation

Railways

Trade and commerce

Transport management

Maps and plans

Personal and family papers