Department of Transport: Passenger Transport Metropolitan Division; Registered Files...

LM 11

1986-2000

This series comprises registered files of the Passenger Transport Metropolitan (PTM) Division, relating to the PTM Division's responsibilities to oversee precept and manpower controls, recession by the Metropolitan District Councils and capital allocations and capital grants under Section 56 of the Transport Act 1968 to the Joint Passenger Transport Authorities following the abolition of the Metropolitan County Councils.

The setting up of the original Passenger Transport Authorities can be found in MT 147 (PTA prefix) and records of the Passenger Transport Division and Buses and Taxis Division are in MT 201. Records of the PTL Division, which performed a similar function for London, are in LM 5. MT 147 MT 201 LM 5

PTM Series

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of Transport, 1995-2002
• Department of Transport, Passenger Transport Metropolitan Division, 1985-1994

5 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 2018 Department for Transport

Topics

Labour

Transport management

Department of Transport 1986-1997, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-2001, Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001- 2002, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2006 and Department of Transport 2006 onwards.

Series is accruing

PTM files were very routine in nature, but the one file that relates to the making of a grant by the West Yorkshire PTA to the Settle and Carlisle railway line has been recommended for preservation due to the historical importance of, and public interest in, the line. Three other files have been recommended as they place the grant making process in an understandable context.

The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the Metropolitan County Councils and re-distributed their functions. Public transport functions went to joint Public Transport Authorities (PTAs). The Transport Act 1985 also removed Metropolitan County Councils' bus operating powers. The Public Transport Metropolitan Division was set up, out of the Passenger Transport Division, to oversee the transitionary period.

In 1994 the Passenger Transport Metropolitan (PTM) Division was absorbed into the Buses and Taxis Division.