Alan Dyke interviewed by Peter Willey

Made:
2020-02-06 in West Sussex
maker:
Peter G. Willey

Oral history interview with Alan Dyke, conducted and recorded by Peter Willey at the interviewee's home in West Sussex on 6 February 2020. Duration: 1 hr. 1 min. 27 sec. Early career; civil engineering work undertaken in-house; changes in organisation post-privatisation; separation of track and trains; Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) Project team; political context; King’s Cross international; Thameslink station; St. Pancras; development of Arup route; options for Stratford Station; international field of bidders; competition with Railtrack for infrastructure resources; funding difficulties; Hatfield accident impact; interface issues with Network Rail; North of London International Services; West Coast Main Line (WCML) train paths unavailable; incorporation of Thameslink station into St. Pancras; changes resulting from privatisation; advice to High Speed 2 (HS2); involvement of different Secretaries of State for Transport

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:
2020-293
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.