Focus on
Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
The government tried to keep the details of the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster of 1943 private – but a court case brought the terrible story to light.
Series
Transport Ministries: Passenger Transport Policy (PT Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 201
What's it about?
MT 201
This series contains records of the Passenger Transport Divisions (PT series) dealing with public transport policy matters, chiefly relating to bus services.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 201
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Passenger Transport Policy (PT Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1976-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Passenger Transport Divisions (PT series) dealing with public transport policy matters, chiefly relating to bus services.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PT Series
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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)
- Department of Transport, Highways Divisions, 1976-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 57 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2007 Department for Transport
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Transport management
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Records selected under criterion 2.2.1.2 and 2.2.1.5 of the Acquisition Policy.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16437/
Catalogue hierarchy
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The Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster
On one tragic night in March 1943 in Bethnal Green, East London, 173 people lost their lives taking shelter from German bombing as the air raid sirens sounded.
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