Mervyn Rogers interviewed by Frank Paterson

Made:
2020-03-12 in Piccadilly
maker:
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.

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
Britain's Railways All Change
Object Number:
2020-294
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.