Focus on
Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
The government tried to keep the details of the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster of 1943 private – but a court case brought the terrible story to light.
Series
Department of Transport: Public Transport London: Registered Files (PTL and PTLO...
Catalogue reference: LM 5
What's it about?
LM 5
This series comprises policy material on the higher level of financial oversight of London Regional Transport and policy on bus service deregulation.
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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LM 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Transport: Public Transport London: Registered Files (PTL and PTLO series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1985-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises policy material on the higher level of financial oversight of London Regional Transport and policy on bus service deregulation.
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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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PTL and PTLO files 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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- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
- Department of Transport, 1976-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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127 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2015 Department for 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
- Transport management
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Department of Transport 1989 to 1997; Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997 to 2001; Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001 to 2002; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002 to 2006; Department for Transport 2006 to date.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1987 onwards
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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As most of the material was financial casework, not many files survived for second review.
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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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Public Transport London Division was formed in 1987 with responsibility for public transport policy in London and sponsorship of London Regional Transport (LRT).
In 1990 the Division was divided into two one dealing with rail aspects and the other with sponsorship of LRT.
By 1994 PTL had become a Directorate still comprising the two divisions one dealing with LRT and one with railway related matters, the latter division dealing with major rail projects that were not exclusively British Railways undertakings.
In 1996 the Directorate disappeared and the divisions became part of the Urban and Local Transport Directorate.
In 1997 it became the London Transport Division and in 1999 the Division moved to the Government Office for London again becoming a Directorate with the customary two divisions split between sponsorship and rail projects; those files that were taken to the GO had an 'O' added to the prefix.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14535830/
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Focus on
The Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster
On one tragic night in March 1943 in Bethnal Green, East London, 173 people lost their lives taking shelter from German bombing as the air raid sirens sounded.
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