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Series
Ministry of Transport: Nationalised Transport (NTB Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 88
What's it about?
MT 88
Files of the Nationalised Transport Division B set up following the Transport Act, 1962, and including papers taken over from other divisions. The files mostly relate to policy concerning, and the regulation of, water resources, canals and inland...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 88
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport: Nationalised Transport (NTB Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Nationalised Transport Division B set up following the Transport Act, 1962, and including papers taken over from other divisions.
The files mostly relate to policy concerning, and the regulation of, water resources, canals and inland waterways. They include correspondence with and papers concerning the British Waterways Board, the papers of the Bowes Committee of Inquiry into Canals and Inland Waterways 1956 to 1958, papers concerning waterways-related bills, and files on specific canals and waterways. Also included in the series are files concerning the pensions of employees of the nationalised transport industries.
This series contains some re-registered files from the WRG series: MT 140
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files from this series re-registered in the FC series in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- NTB Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, Nationalised Transport Division B, 1970-1976
- Department of Transport, Nationalised Transport Division B, 1976-1997
- Ministry of Transport, Nationalised Transport Division B, 1962-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 429 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 1980 Department 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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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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Following the Transport Act 1962 the administrative divisions in the Ministry of Transport responsible for dealing with the various sections of the public sector transport industries were reorganised and Nationalised Transport Divisions A and B were formed. The former had responsibility for certain aspects of nationalised rail and road undertakings, including British Rail's manpower and labour relations, pay and pensions, property issues, health and welfare legislation and the Transport Holding Company. The latter dealt with inland waterways (public and private legislation affecting the waterways and relations with British Waterways Board).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11137/
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