Adrian Clough interviewed by Michael Lee

Made:
2019-02-11 in London
maker:
Michael John 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.

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
Britain's Railways All Change
Object Number:
2020-309
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.