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 Waterways Executive in AN 77; minutes of the British Transport Commission, Docks and Inland Waterways Management Boards in AN 71; records of Southampton Docks in AN 73; and publications of the Docks and Inlands Waterways Executive and of the British Waterways are in AN 76 and AN 78 respectively.

• British Transport Commission, British Waterways Board of Management, 1960-1962
• British Transport Commission, Docks and Inland Waterways Management Board, 1953-1954
• British Transport Commission, Docks and Waterways Board, 1953-1954
• British Transport Commission, Docks Management Board, 1955-1962
• British Waterways Board, 1962-1962
• Docks and Inland Waterways Executive, 1947-1953

Topics

Railways

Transport management

The Docks and Inland Waterways Executive was established by the Transport Act 1947 which acquired for the state ownership of railways, canals, docks, inland water transport, long-distance road haulage and various other types of transport. The British Transport Commission, responsible to the Ministry of Transport, was to oversee the operation of these nationalised means of transport.

The Docks and Inland Waterways Executive was abolished under the Transport Act 1953 and its powers assumed by the commission itself.

Under the Transport Act 1962 the British Transport Commission was abolished and five new public authorities including the British Transport Docks Board and the British Waterways Board were established.

The functions of these bodies were to provide services and facilities on the inland waterways owned or managed by them, and to provide port facilities at any harbours similarly owned or managed.