Series
British Transport Commission and British Railways Board: Personnel Department
Catalogue reference: AN 174
What's it about?
AN 174
This series contains records of the Personnel Department relating to personnel policy and organisation of staff.
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 174
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Transport Commission and British Railways Board: Personnel Department
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1928-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Personnel Department relating to personnel policy and organisation of staff.
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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, Personnel Department, 1963-1994
- British Transport Commission, Personnel Department, 1947-1962
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2738 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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2001 to 2004 BRB (Residuary) Ltd
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1931-1994
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Records have been kept relating to: policy; health and safety issues; training; organisation; finance (other than individual cases); trades unions.
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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 Personnel Department was set up at the establishment of the British Transport Commission in 1947and functioned through to the effective end of the British Railways Board. After 1984 the department dealt with BRB headquarters staff only.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15584/
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British Transport Commission and British Railways Board: Personnel Department