Oral history interview with Robert Goundry, conducted and recorded by Christopher Mew on 4 April 2018 (session 1) at the interviewee's home in Warwickshire. Duration: 52 mins. 25 sec. Career until privatisation; setting up Provincial sector; process of creating train operating company (TOC); personal views on privatisation; difficulties of process; management buyout (MBO) process

One of over 150 oral history recordings made as part of the Britain’s Railways All Change (BRAC) archive project. BRAC was set-up to cover gaps in documenting the railway privatisation process in the United Kingdom, between 1994 and 1997, when the government-owned British Rail was dismantled into over 100 privately-owned companies. The interviews capture the recollections of people involved in the planning and implementation of the privatisation process, the management of change and running the railway during privatisation.