Christine MacLean interviewed by Frank Paterson

Oral history interview with Christine MacLean, conducted and recorded by Frank Paterson at the National Railway Museum, York on 3 January 2020. Duration: 1 hr. 1 min. 5 sec. Signalling & Telecommunications (S&T) Tracer Stratford; Property Board York; training as surveyor; selling closed railways; Whitby to Scarborough; selling railway houses; Selby diversion land purchases; cash flow; British Rail Investment Services created; Hull Dairycoates sale; Anglia Region 1989; property management; joined Railtrack; station leases to train operating companies (TOCs) prior to franchises; Railtrack information technology (IT) difficulties; retirement; Railtrack unrealistic targets

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.