Oral history interview with Gareth Hadley, conducted and recorded by Nick Mitchell in London on 13 December 2018. Duration: 1 hr. 21 min. 46 sec. Greater London Council (GLC); recruitment to British Rail Group Employee Relations Manager; meeting with trade unions; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA); Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); first industrial dispute; politicians and Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS); Collective Bargaining Arrangements (CBA); privatisation discussions; setting up train operating companies (TOCs); preparing TOC directors for privatised industry; Scotrail dispute; succession planning; Promotion Transfer and Redundancy arrangements (PT&R)

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.