General policy work executed by Save Our Railways
- PART OF:
- Records from Save Our Railways
- Made:
- 1990-2001
- part of archive:
- Campaign for Better Transport Archive
- maker:
- Save our Railways and Better Rail Campaign
A series of correspondence, meeting minutes, briefings, and one DVD produced by Jonathan Bray and other Save Our Railways organisers, Members of Parliament including Glenda Jackson, Gerald Howarth, Mike Gapes, and Bill Brian, John Swift, Office of the Rail Regulator, Office of Passenger Rail Franchising (OPRAF), Railtrack, the Better Rail Campaign, the Railway Development Society, and others, 1995-1998. Documents cover privatisation and its effects, service quality, campaign documents including The Way Forward and Charter for Rail, Labour influence, rail policy, proposal for the Strategic Rail Authority, rolling stocks, railway land sales, rural routes, amendment for blind and partially sighted people, line and station closures, and more. Meeting groups include those with Transport 2000, Franchise Forum West and South West, Independent Transport Advisory Group, Labour Rail Policy Group, Rail Policy Roundtable, Railway Reform Group (a sub-group of the Retired Railway Officers Society), and Westminster Communications Group.
Details
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Identifier:
- CFBT/10/1
- Access:
- Access is given in accordance with the NRM access policy. Material from this collection is available to researchers through Search Engine. All researchers must sign a data protection form to access, owing to the personally identifiable and sensitive information contained in the collection.
- rights:
- Copies may be supplied of items in the collection, provided that the copying process used does not damage the item or is not detrimental to its preservation. Copies will be supplied in accordance with the NRM’s terms and conditions for the supply and reproduction of copies, and the provisions of any relevant copyright legislation. Copyright belongs to the Campaign for Better Transport in the first instance and specified on lower levels where Campaign for Better Transport is not the creator (e.g. Better Rail Campaign, Office of Passenger Rail Franchising [OPRAF], Anglia Railways), and are governed by a CC BY-NC-SA license.