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
Office of the Rail Regulator: Annual Reports
Catalogue reference: JR 1
What's it about?
JR 1
This series contains the annual reports of the Rail Regulator to the Secretary of State for Transport.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JR 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Rail Regulator: Annual Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1993-2001
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the annual reports of the Rail Regulator to the Secretary of State for Transport.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 8 volume(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 1995 Office of the Rail Regulator
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9971/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
46 records
Within the department: JR
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Office of the Rail Regulator: Annual Reports
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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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