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
Department of Transport: Records of the National Roads Policy Directorate: Registered...
Catalogue reference: LM 16
What's it about?
LM 16
This series contains records relating to the policy on the trunk road network and national roads programme.
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 16
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Transport: Records of the National Roads Policy Directorate: Registered Files (NRP Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1992-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to the policy on the trunk road network and national roads programme.
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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)
- NRP
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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 of Transport, 1976-1997
- Department of Transport, 1995-2002
- Department of Transport, National Roads Policy Directorate, 1995-1998
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 44 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2020 Department of 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- 2000 to 2001 – Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 2001 to 2002 – Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2002 on – Department for Transport
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1995-2000
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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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The National Roads Policy Directorate was set up in 1995 comprising four divisions:
- HPP: Highways Policy and Programmes; responsible for policy on the trunk road network and national roads programme
- DBFO: Design, Build, Finance, Operate; responsible for devising and tendering model contracts for private sector companies to design, build, finance and operate roads with remuneration from the Government based on the usage of those roads. In 1996 DBFO was renamed Private Finance and in 1997 was absorbed into TS.
- TS: Tolled Roads and Crossings; responsible for tolls and private finance for roads and crossings and co-ordination of privately financed roads competitions
- HETA: Highways Economics and Traffic Appraisal; responsible for methods of traffic and resources appraisal of trunk road schemes and economic advice on highways policy
In 1998 the Directorate was broken up and then between 1998 and 2000 files on much of the subject matter migrated into the new ROADS prefix.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16983116/
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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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