Series
British Railways Board: Chief Passenger Marketing Manager and Director of Passenger...
Catalogue reference: AN 173
What's it about?
AN 173
This series contains records of the Chief Passenger Marketing Manager and successor. The records were known as the market research library. They consist of reports made by the British Railway Board and for the BRB by consultants on ticketing,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AN 173
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Railways Board: Chief Passenger Marketing Manager and Director of Passenger Marketing Services: Survey Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1960-1988
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Chief Passenger Marketing Manager and successor. The records were known as the market research library. They consist of reports made by the British Railway Board and for the BRB by consultants on ticketing, fares and British Rail services.
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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)
- 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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- British Railways Board, Chief Passenger Manager, 1963-1969
- British Railways Board, Chief Passenger Marketing Manager, 1970-1979
- British Railways Board, Director of Passenger Marketing Services, 1984-1994
- British Railways Board, Passenger Manager (Marketing), 1979-1984
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 479 papers
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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2001-2013 British Railways Board
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1960 to 1985
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals are expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Duplicate reports irrelevant to the railways and those consisting of raw data only were destroyed.
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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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The British Railway Board set up the office of Chief Passenger Marketing Manager in 1963. It appears to have had a number of organisational changes and in 1984 the title was changed to Director of Passenger Marketing Services.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15583/
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British Railways Board: Chief Passenger Marketing Manager and Director of Passenger Marketing Services: Survey Reports