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Ministry of Transport and successors, Railway Divisions: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: MT 6
What's it about?
MT 6
This series consists of correspondence and papers of the Board of Trade Railway Department, 1840 to 1846 and 1851 to 1919, the Railway Commissioners, 1846 to 1851, the Railways Divisions of the Ministry of Transport for the periods 1919 to 1941,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 6
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and successors, Railway Divisions: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1840-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of correspondence and papers of the Board of Trade Railway Department, 1840 to 1846 and 1851 to 1919, the Railway Commissioners, 1846 to 1851, the Railways Divisions of the Ministry of Transport for the periods 1919 to 1941, 1946 to 1953, and 1959 to 1966, the Ministry of War Transport, 1941-1946, and of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1953-1959.
The papers relate to the peacetime regulation and wartime control of railways, to railway owned canals, tramways, underground railways and related services and to the central direction of wartime transport. The series includes bill papers and some associated plans.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Piece nos 1 to 2602 in this series are that portion of the inherited material which was not added to in the Ministry of Transport, including some created by the Railway Commissioners who constituted a gap in the Board of Trade control between 1846 and 1851.
From piece nos 2603 the papers are either original files raised in the Ministry or inherited files added to after 1919, and for these items the list has been arranged under the subject headings shown in the MT 6 series list.
The series list does not for the most part give piece descriptions being limited to the references of the registered files contained in each box. To discover the number of the required file it is first necessary to search the appropriate Indexes in Indexes and Registers of Correspondence in MT 7. A relevant entry in an Index will give a registered paper number; the Reader must then find that number in the associated Registers in that series, and trace forward in the column headed 'No. of subsequent communication'. If and when that column proves to be empty, provided the word 'Destroyed' has not been stamped in the 'Remarks' column, the papers should have been preserved on a file bearing the registered number of that entry.
When applying for a file, Readers should include the box number in the document reference, e.g. 'MT 6/279/6201' where 'MT 6' is the series reference, '279' is the box number and '6201' the file number.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the main records of private railway companies see RAIL
Copies of Railway Inspectors Reports can be found in MT 29
Further records on railway rates and charges in MT 56
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Railway Commissioners, 1846-1851
- Board of Trade, Railway Department, 1840-1846
- Board of Trade, Railway Department, 1851-1919
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Railways Divisions, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Docks and Canal Division, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Nationalised Transport Divisions, 1962-1966
- Ministry of Transport, Ports and Transit Division, 1938-1941
- Ministry of Transport, Public Utilities Division, 1937-1939
- Ministry of Transport, Railway A Division, 1961-1966
- Ministry of Transport, Railway B Division, 1961-1966
- Ministry of Transport, Railway C Division, 1962-1966
- Ministry of Transport, Railways Division, 1939-1941
- Ministry of Transport, Railways Divisions, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Railways Divisions, 1959-1961
- Ministry of War Transport, Port and Transit Control, 1941-1946
- Ministry of War Transport, Railways Divisions, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3575 boxes and files
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2000 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
from 1984 to1997 Department of Transport
from 1970 to1974 Department of the Environment
from 1965 to1970 Ministry of Transport
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An index to companies and places can be found in the 2 volumes accompanying the series list for MT 6. A register of the series can be found in MT 7
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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In 1919, the Ministry of Transport inherited the overall control of Britain's railways. In 1921, the restoration of the railways to private hands reduced the ministry's role to administrative supervision. In 1937, preparations for the possible outbreak of war led to the formation of a Public Utilities Division, later renamed Railways Division. This division brought both railways and railway-owned canals to government oversight.
In 1947, railway nationalisation vested the principal railways of Great Britain into government ownership.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Railways: Administrative and Other Records, PRO Domestic Records Information sheet 81
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11056/
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