Andrew Nock interviewed by Michael Lee

Made:
2018-04-24 in Bedfordshire
maker:
Michael John Lee

Oral history interview with Andrew Nock, conducted and recorded by Michael Lee at the interviewee's home in Bedfordshire on 24 April 2018. Duration: 1 hr. 13 min. 28 sec. Career overview; awareness of scope for freight privatisation 1980s; cash generation; Privatisation Studies group; action immediate after election 1992; freight privatisation team; working with Department for Transport (DfT); Trainload Freight (TLF) split geographically; contracts for engineering trains; freight management buy-out teams; Wisconsin Central; Ed Burkhardt; views in retrospect

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.

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
Britain's Railways All Change
Object Number:
2020-266
type:
oral history interview
credit:
Britain’s Railways All Change (BRAC) oral history archive, created in partnership with the Friends of the National Railway Museum, the Retired Railway Officers’ Society and the National Railway Museum.