British Railways Board: Policy Unit and predecessor: Files

AN 170

1959-1997

Records of the Policy Unit and predecessors comprising economic reviews, policy advice to the British Railways Board on national and European policy (environmental and fiscal), involvement in studies and research relating to BR operations.

Public Record(s)

English

• British Railways Board, Department of Strategic Development, 1974-1982
• British Railways Board, Policy Office, 1993-1996
• British Railways Board, Policy Unit, 1982-1993

609 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

In 2001 British Railways Board

File series ran from 1974 to 1996

No future accruals expected

Files for information only, raw data, international statistics, and requests for data from outside bodies have been destroyed.

Set up in 1974 as Department of Strategic Development, mainly involved in the production of studies, it became the Policy Unit in 1982. In 1992 the International Policy Office became part of the Policy Unit although they kept their own files and records. In 1993/4 the Policy Unit divided into the Policy Office and the Business Review Group (which had its own file series). The Policy Office closed in October 1996.