Bound reports on railways and rail transport

File is comprised of reports bound in booklets produced by Transport 2000 Trust, Transport 2000 Limited, Steer Davies and Gleave, Jim Steer, Jimmy Knapp, Paul Salveson, Oxford Economic Research Association, Friends of the Earth, and others (1976-2008) relating to topics including financing public transport and finding finances for government investment in railways; rail privatisation; railway campaigning; railway engineering; rural railways. Some reports include papers relating to the publications of these documents, such as letters, requests for feedback steering group notes, press releases, strategy papers, funding proposals, launch event agendas, order forms, and other promotional printed materials related to these publications.

Reports include "Paying Heed" (1984); "Finding the Finance" (2000); "The Case for Rail" (2002); "Where do we go from here?" (2001); "Promoting Rail Investment" (1994); "Financing Public Transport: How Does Britain Compare?" (1992); "Financing Public Transport: The Need for a New Approach"; "The Case for Quality Public Transport" (1997); "Door-to-door public transport: a literature review" (2001); "Rail privatisation: Attractive investment or wishful thinking?" (1992); "Investing in British Rail" (1983) produced by TEST for Transport 2000; "At the Crossroads" report on local transport; "The Rising Costs of Britain's Railways. Causes and Solutions" by M Duncan of Transport 2000 (2003); "Comprehensive Spending review 2007: the case for transport in the city regions" (2006) produced by Passenger Transport Executive Group and JMP Consulting; "Higher Fares You Must Be Choking" (c. 1994) by Lynn Sloman and Jane Puzey; "Finding the Finance: Good Practice in Local Transport Planning" (2000); "Finding the Finance: Sources of Local Transport Funding" (2000); "Transport costs and carbon emissions" (2008); "The Costs of Privatisation. An Initial Assessment" produced by Steer Davies and Gleave (1993); "At the Leading Edge" (2003); and "How to Win a Rail Campaign" (2003).

Reports on European case studies: "BR: A European Railway" (1984); slideshow presentation on the NS Trefpunkt (2002).

Seventeen documents comprised of bound research reports, printed reports, and one transcript of opposition motions relating to railway privatisation and the development of franchises, including "Passenger Rail Franchising: Government's Response to the Committee's Fourteenth Report of Session 2005-2006, First Special Report of Session 2006-07" (2007); "Should the ROSCOs be regulated?" (1998); "Running Trains on Commercial Lines" (1992); "Railway Privatisation: Passenger Rolling Stock" (1993), "The Privatised Railway" (1997), "Signals from a railway conference" (1988), "A New Future for Britain's Railways" (1991), "Rails for Sale?" (1989), "Rail privatisation: A Way Forward" (1993); and others, produced by the Department of Transport, Steer Davies Gleave, Portsmouth Friends of the Earth, The Railway Forum, Rail Freight Group, David Campbell Bannerman, Fiona Poole, John Redwood, Transport 2000, Stephen Joseph, and others (1989-2007).

Five draft and final reports and bound booklets detailing various engineering and technical aspects of rail transport, including "Diesel Locomotive Idling Report" (2001); "Main Line Electrification"; "Striking a spark" produced by Mick Hamer (1976); "Review of railway electrification" by House of Commons (1982); "Railway electrification" produced by National Union of Railwaymen (1982); and letters from Department of Transport (1982) relating to electrification of railway lines.

Two bundles of reports on rural railways including one bound report by Paul Salveson "What Use are Rural Railways?" (1997); two spiral-bound extended reports "What use are rural railways?" with detailed tables on rural railways (1997), "Branching Out. Railways for Rural Communities" (2000). Materials are appended with letters produced by Transnet, Countryside Agency, and others; strategy and proposal papers; meeting minutes; and letters produced by Stephen Joseph of Transport 2000 and the Rural Development Commission and discuss rural railways, access to rail stations and lines, closures and reopenings, and its benefits for communities, economy and the environment (1994-2000).