Series
British Railways Board: Director, Group Finance: Group Chief Accountant's Records
Catalogue reference: AN 181
What's it about?
AN 181
This series contains policy and strategy files of the Group Chief Accountant's Office. Many files relate to privatisation of parts of British Rail in the 1980's, eg Sealink UK Ltd (1984), Doncaster Wagon Works Ltd and British Transport...
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 181
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Railways Board: Director, Group Finance: Group Chief Accountant's Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-1997
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains policy and strategy files of the Group Chief Accountant's Office.
Many files relate to privatisation of parts of British Rail in the 1980's, eg Sealink UK Ltd (1984), Doncaster Wagon Works Ltd and British Transport Advertising (1987), British Rail Engineering Ltd and Travellers Fare Ltd (1988), Gold Star Holidays and the Vale of Rheidol Railway (1989).
Other files cover insurance, pensions, joint ventures such as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, etc.
The records from the 1990's largely concern the introduction of new financial systems to support the establishment of shadow franchises within British Rail (Project Sapphire).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Broadly, registered files in former reference order (AN 181/1-346), followed by unregistered material in chronological order (AN 181/347-462).
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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)
- Group Chief Accountant (also Group Insurance Manager)
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 462 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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In 2003 British Railways Board
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Mainly 1979-1994
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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)
- Only records dealing with policy and strategy have been selected.
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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 Group Finance Department was separated from Director of Finance and Planning in the 1980s.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15651/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: AN
Records created or inherited by the British Transport Commission, the British Railways...
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British Railways Board: Director, Group Finance: Group Chief Accountant's Records