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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 the Regions: Transport Policy, Strategy...
Catalogue reference: AT 234
What's it about?
AT 234
This series contains records supporting the review of transport safety, including accident investigation, conducted as a result of the White Paper of 1998 'A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone' (Cm 3950).
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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AT 234
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions: Transport Policy, Strategy and Integration (PSI); Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1992-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records supporting the review of transport safety, including accident investigation, conducted as a result of the White Paper of 1998 'A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone' (Cm 3950).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arranged by former reference.
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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)
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PSI
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
- Department of Transport, 1976-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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25 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2024 Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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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)
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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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In the White Paper of 1998 'A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone' (Cm 3950) the Government announced its intention to conduct a review of transport safety, including accident investigation. A consultation document was published in March 1999 and the review commenced in parallel with largely separate arrangements being made for Railway safety. The Policy, Strategy and Integration (PSI) prefix supported the work of the review.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18700256/
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Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions: Transport Policy, Strategy and Integration (PSI); Registered Files
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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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