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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 Environment Transport and Regions: Integrated Transport Policy Division:...
Catalogue reference: LM 22
What's it about?
LM 22
This series contains records relating to the policy on the setting up of a commission for integrated transport and contains files of the subject based working groups.
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 22
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Environment Transport and Regions: Integrated Transport Policy Division: Registered Files (ITPD Prefix Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1997-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to the policy on the setting up of a commission for integrated transport and contains files of the subject based working groups.
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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)
- ITPD
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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)
- Department of Environment, Transport and Regions; Integrated Transport Policy Division, 1997-1999
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 25 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 2023 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
- Transport management
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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 responsibility of the Integrated Transport Policy Division was the implementation of the Transport White Paper 1998 'A New deal for Transport: Better for Everyone' (Cm 3950), was under ITPD Prefix. ITPD functioned through Working Groups on each transport medium.
The objectives of the White Paper were:
Planning: Regional Planning Guidance and Regional Transport Strategies to be drawn up by Regional Planning Conferences in collaboration with the Government Offices for the Regions (GO's) and Regional Development Agencies (RDA's). Local Transport Plans to be drawn up by the Local Authorities. Planning Policy Guidance (PPG's) and Development Plans to be revised accordingly. Funding: Possibility of charging on trunk roads and motorways. Increase in Private Sector funding. Powers for local authorities to make road user charges and hypothecate the revenue for transport purposes, including public transport (also workplace parking charges could be used the same way).Rail: The creation of a Strategic Rail Authority and tighter controls on the Rolling Stock Companies (ROSCO's).Highways: Allocation of road space to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport. Priority on maintenance and more efficient use of Trunk Roads with some to be de-trunked. Re-examination of policy on speed.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17967023/
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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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