Envelope, containing 8 newspaper cuttings [concerning personalities associated with...

Envelope, containing 8 newspaper cuttings [concerning personalities associated with British Railways], [items originally housed in ZSPC11/687/70]:

1) 'Daily Mail', manuscript dated [11 January 1960], 'Sir Brian promises railmen a rise - and back pay', [Sir Brian Robertson, chairman of British Transport Commission, on independant review of pay for railway workers].

2) manuscript notation 'DM 14.1.60' ['Daily Mail' 14 January 1960], 'I think Sir Brian should quit Now', by Leslie Randall, [pressure on chairman of British Transport Commission over mounting corporate debts].

3) ['Daily Mirror'], undated [c 1960], 'Mirror Page One Comment, General Sir Brian Robertson, Transport Commission Chairman, has won the regard of the railwaymen, their union and the public', with monochrome photographic illustration.

4) typed 'Dly Mail 11-1-1960' ['Daily Mail' 11 January 1960], page 9, 'Marples Faces Stop-the-Rot Decision', by Leslie Randall, [pressure over mounting corporate debts of British Transport Commission].

5) typed 'Daily Mirror 21 [April] 1961', 'First-class to Anywhere', by Tony Miles, [report on rail-travel pass of Dr Richard Beeching, and general travel allowances of railway workers].

6) manuscript notation 'S Ex 30.9.1962' ['Sunday Express' 30 September 1962], cartoon by Cummings [showing train cuts, overseen by Rt Hon Harold Macmillan, then Prime Minister], 'If this is what happens to Transport when an ex-director of the Great Western is PM, I can't wait to see Gaitskell in power'.

7) 'Daily Mirror', 29 March 1963, page 13, 'The day after Dr Beeching wrote off Cranleigh Station, Surrey, All Change but no anger in this village' [interviews with station staff and passengers, following announcement of closure of line to Guildford].

8) 'Daily Mail', 23 April 1966, 'Barbara Castle, doing a Marples', [Minister of Transport] 'refused to end six commuter services scheduled for closure', monochrome photographic illustration 'Mrs Castle and Driver Tom Taylor in the control cab' [of electric locomotive at Manchester Piccadilly].