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Railway staff and the evacuation of coastal areas. Folios 1, 7, 12: Provision of...
Catalogue reference: AN 2/22
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This record is about the Railway staff and the evacuation of coastal areas. Folios 1, 7, 12: Provision of... dating from 1939-1945 in the series War of 1939-1945: Railway Executive Committee: Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- AN 2/22
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1945
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Description (What the record is about)
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Railway staff and the evacuation of coastal areas.
Folios 1, 7, 12: Provision of iron rations for Railwaymen and food supplies to migratory trains - Evacuation of coastal areas, ration packs.
Folios 2, 4-6, 17-30, 33-35, 46-48, 51, 56-58, 60, 64-75, 80-89, 91-96, 99-102, 105, 109-113, 115-118, 120-122, 124-138, 140-153, 240-241, 244-248: Compulsory evacuation of 31 towns, Railway staff left behind.
Folios 3, 32, 36, 139: Compulsory evacuation - special scheme.
Folios 8-10, 13-14: Emergency rations for Railwaymen.
Folios 11, 15-16, 119, 123: Iron rations for Railwaymen.
Folios 38-45, 58, 62-63: Feeding Railway staff left behind after evacuation - Brighton Group. Numbers of staff employed by town and number of staff to be retained after evacuation, dated 1942, (folios 58, 63).
Folio 49: Railwaymen remaining behind after evacuation in Littlehampton.
Folios 50, 52, 76, 251-255: Feeding of Railway staff left behind after evacuation.
Folios 52-55, 59, 61, 114: Feeding of Railway staff left behind after evacuation in Parkeston and Harwich.
Folio 77: Ready money advance by local authorities in the event of invasion.
Folio 78: Payment of wages during invasion.
Folios 79, 90: Evacuation of coastal areas - iron rations.
Folio 98: Exercise Scorch.
Folios 103-104, 107-108, 237-238, 249-250: Evacuation of Coastal Areas - memorandum of meeting held at Regional Commissioner's Office, Cambridge on Friday 5 September 1941 together with numbers of staff by town scheduled to remain behind after civilian evacuation.
Folios 154-156: Special Scheme, Evacuation and Reception Areas, Revised Plan (typed table) dated April 1941. Includes names of evacuation areas, numbers to be evacuated, names of detraining stations, numbers to be detrained, names of reception areas with numbers to be received.
Folios 157, 159, 166-167, 169-170: Immobilisation of cranes.
Folio 158, 168, 177: Evacuation of engines and breakdown cranes.
Folios 160, 178-182, 186: Evacuation of Coastal Towns, destruction of Railway equipment.
Folios 161, 189-197, 204-205, 213: Evacuation of Coastal areas - Railway staff.
Folios 162, 165: Discussion with War Office about maintaining Railway traffic during active military operations in areas from which the civil population had been evacuated. Folios 163-164: Planned evacuation of East Anglican and Kent Coast towns.
Folios 171-175, 188, 202-203, 206-211, 214-215, 218-218, 242-243: Evacuation of Coastal Areas.
Folio 176: Essential workers.
Folio 183: Immobilization of the Railway.
Folios 184-185, 187, 198, 201: Defence measures - immobilisation of Station equipment.
Folios 199-200: Evacuation of coastal towns.
Folios 212, 216-217: Evacuation of Coastal areas and arrangements for displaced Railway staff.
Folios 229-235: Home Office circular dated 20 June 1940 concerning evacuation procedures with names of towns to be evacuated.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 506/11
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- Open Document, Open Description
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War of 1939-1945: Railway Executive Committee: Files
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