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Series
Transport Ministries: Rail (R Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 214
What's it about?
MT 214
This series contains papers of the three railway divisions of the Transport Industries Directorate.
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 214
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Rail (R Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1975-2004
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains papers of the three railway divisions of the Transport Industries Directorate.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Former departmental reference order. Some files were re-registered from the RA, RB and RC series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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This series follows on directly from the files in MT 124
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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)
- R
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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
- Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2001-2002
- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
- Department of the Environment, Transport Industries Department, 1976-1997
- Ministry of Transport, 1959-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 697 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 2011 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 of Transport 1989-1997; Department of Environment and Transport 1997-2001; Department of Transport Local Government and the Regions 2001-2002; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2006; Department for Communities and Local Government 2006-2009.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1981-1986
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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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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Railways policy continued to be dealt with by the Transport Industries Directorate railway divisions through the 1980s.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16644/
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Within the department: MT
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Transport Ministries: Rail (R Series) Files
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