Adrian Clough interviewed by Michael Lee

Oral history interview with Adrian Clough, conducted and recorded by Michael Lee at the interviewee's office in London on 11 February 2019. Duration: 1 hr. 15 min. 16 sec. Personal background; Initial views on privatisation; Organising for Quality (OfQ); joining Office of Rail Passenger Franchising (OPRAF); Roger Salmon (Designate Franchising Director) Chris Stokes; early days at shadow OPRAF; performance regimes; Passenger and Interoperator Revenue and Ticketing Executive (PIRATE) working group; Ticketing and Inter-operator Contracts Implementation Team (TICIT); Operational Research Computerised Allocation of Tickets System (ORCATS); team structure; workload; time pressures; OPRAF decision making process; franchise sales process; sale of rolling stock companies (ROSCOs) and Railtrack; reflections on OPRAF and privatisation

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.