Christine MacLean interviewed by Frank Paterson

Made:
2020-01-03 in National Railway Museum
maker:
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.

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
Britain's Railways All Change
Object Number:
2020-316
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.