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British Transport Commission and British Railways Board: Director Trainload Freight...
Catalogue reference: AN 209
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AN 209
Includes minutes of the Railfreight and Trainload Freight boards and of liaison meetings with the British Railways Board, policy files on the creation and operation of Railfreight and Trainload Freight, records of meetings and correspondence with...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AN 209
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Transport Commission and British Railways Board: Director Trainload Freight and Predecessors: Minutes, Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1959-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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Includes minutes of the Railfreight and Trainload Freight boards and of liaison meetings with the British Railways Board, policy files on the creation and operation of Railfreight and Trainload Freight, records of meetings and correspondence with key customers, and records of operating expenditure, customer revenue and investment and traffic flows.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Chronological
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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 Freight Manager, 1982-1982
- British Railways Board, Director Railfreight, 1982-1982
- British Railways Board, Director Trainload Freight, 1993-1993
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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BRB (Residuary) Ltd
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Accumulated successively by the Chief Freight Manager, Director Railfreight and Director Trainload freight. Passed to British Railways Board (Residuary) Ltd by the British Railways Board in 2001.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1959-1994
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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)
- Selected to represent the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK. Subjects retained include board minutes and minutes of liaison meetings with the British Railways Board, policy records of the creation and operation of Railfreight and Trainload Freight, dealings with key customers, finance, and traffic flows.
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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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Until 1982 the movement of freight by rail was regionally organised, each region having Freight Managers responsible to the Chief Freight Manager at headquarters. After the introduction of sector management in 1982, Railfreight became a separate business responsible for the development of the trainload freight business. There were five subsector trainload freight businesses dealing respectively with the movement of coal, petrol, aggregates, metals and automobiles. Each subsector had a National Business Manager responsible to the Director Freight at headquarters.
Between 1988 and 1992 Railfreight controlled Railfreight Distribution (wagonload and deep sea container freight; see AN 115 and AN 204 to AN 207) and Trainload Freight. Under this system Trainload Business managers replaced National Business Managers, responsible to the Director Trainload Freight. Trainload Freight was divided into three companies Mainline, Loadhaul and Transrail, all owned by the British Railways Board until they were sold in 1995.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15919/
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British Transport Commission and British Railways Board: Director Trainload Freight and Predecessors: Minutes, Correspondence and Papers