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Series
Department of Transport: Records of the former Strategic Rail Authority; Registered...
Catalogue reference: LM 13
What's it about?
LM 13
The files in this series relate to the award and management of passenger rail franchises to train operating companies.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LM 13
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Transport: Records of the former Strategic Rail Authority; Registered Files (SRA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1994-2005
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series relate to the award and management of passenger rail franchises to train operating companies.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records of the Railways Divisions of the Department of Transport are in: MT 214
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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)
- SRA 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)
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- Department for Transport, 2002-2002
- Office of Passenger Rail Franchising, 1993-1993
- Strategic Rail Authority, 2001-2006
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 12 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 2018 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
- Railways
- Transport management
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Department for Transport 2007, onwards.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- From 2007
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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)
- Due to the newness of the SRA prefix only high profile files relating to the future of the Settle and Carlisle line have so far been recommended for retention. Files selected in the future will concern similarly high profile elements of the railway system and the higher direction of the Strategic Rail Authority.
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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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Under the provisions of the Railways Act 2005 the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) ceased to exist from 1 December 2006. The functions of the SRA were divided between Network Rail, the Office of Rail Regulation and the Department of Transport.
The SRA prefix was set up for the Department of Transport Rail Group in early 2007 to allow for the transfer of files. Files relate to those operations of the former SRA that dealt with the award and operation of passenger rail franchises to train operating companies. Some files were re-registered to SRA prefix from the OPRAF prefix of the former Office of Passenger Rail Franchising which had been absorbed into the Strategic Rail Authority following the Transport Act 2000.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16621271/
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