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Series
Transport Ministries: Railways and Inland Waterways(RIW Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 115
What's it about?
MT 115
This series consists of Transport ministries' files concerning the policy and supervision of the railway and inland waterways undertakings of the British Transport Commission, including the London Transport Executive. The series contains material...
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 115
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Railways and Inland Waterways(RIW Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1934-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of Transport ministries' files concerning the policy and supervision of the railway and inland waterways undertakings of the British Transport Commission, including the London Transport Executive.
The series contains material on the operation of inland waterways and on general railway matters, including the withdrawal of unremunerative services, the implications of the Channel Tunnel and investment and light railways.
The records in this series cover the post-war period up to the abolition of the division in 1963, including some files of its predecessor divisions.
The papers include a selection of files of the Committee of Inquiry into Inland Waterways, 1955-1959. Additionally, the papers of the London Travel Committee (1958-1961), the Committee of Inquiry into London Transport (1953-1955).
The series includes files re-registered from the LP series (otherwise in MT 135).
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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See also
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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)
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RIW Series
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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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- Ministry of Shipping, Directorate of Shipping in Port, 1939-1941
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Docks and Canal Division, 1953-1954
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Ports and Inland Waterways Division, 1954-1955
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Railways and Inland Waterways Division, 1955-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Docks and Canal Division, 1934-1941
- Ministry of Transport, Docks and Canal Division, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Nationalised Transport Division B, 1962-1970
- Ministry of Transport, Ports and Transit Division, 1938-1941
- Ministry of Transport, Railways and Inland Waterways Division, 1959-1962
- Ministry of Transport, Waterways and Railways General Division, 1962-1962
- Ministry of War Transport, Port and Transit Control, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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313 file(s)
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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 1982 to 1997 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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- Topics
- Railways
- Transport management
- Banking
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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 1955 the Ports and Inland Waterways Division, known until 1954 as the Docks and Canals Division, was split up, when the Inland Waterways element was merged with the Railways Division and Ports and Ports Emergency Planning Divisions transferred to the Shipping Operations Group.
The new Railways and Inland Waterways Division was responsible for the policy and supervision of the railways and inland waterways undertakings of the British Transport Commission, including the London Transport Executive. Following the abolition of the commission under the Transport Act 1962, responsibility for inland waterways was assigned to Nationalised Transport B. Division and a separate administrative group was formed to deal with railways.
The division was also responsible for considering and implementing the recommendations and reports of the Transport Users' Consultative Committees set up under section 6 of the Transport Act 1947 and provided the secretariat of the London Travel Committee. It worked in conjunction with International Inland Transport Branch on matters arising from international railway conventions and advised on ministerial appointments to the Thames Conservancy and the Thames Passenger Services Committee.
The division was also charged with consideration of legislation, both public and private, and delegated legislation, including byelaws affecting railways and inland waterways, and applications for abandoning unnecessary or derelict canals.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11164/
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