Mervyn Rogers interviewed by Frank Paterson

Oral history interview with Mervyn Rogers, conducted and recorded by Frank Paterson at the RAF Club, Piccadilly, London on 12 March 2020. Duration: 1 hr. 15 min. 11 sec. Early career; area management; Lew Adams; train service management; joined Deloitte Haskins & Sells; transport and distribution projects; Coopers merger; EC Directive 91/440 implications; separation of track from trains; train paths; Terry Worrell; Ivor Warburton; Treasury pressure; vertical integration issues; advising on access agreements after EC Directive 91/440; infrastructure maintenance and renewals; shadow train operating companies (TOCs); reflections

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.