Oral history interview with Andrew Meadows, conducted and recorded by Dick Fearn at the interviewee's office in the Abellio Headquarters, London on 30 April 2018. Duration: 43 min. 39 sec. Career overview; personal reactions to privatisation; frontline staff and trade union reactions to privatisation; involvement in preparations for privatisation; Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) drivers’ terms dispute; South Eastern management and employee buy-out (MEBO); beginning of Connex South Eastern franchise; comparison of management objectives before and after privatisation; franchise failures on the East Coast Main Line; changes in employment environment; trade unions issues; employee loyalty post-privatisation; safety management before and after privatisation; Clapham accident

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.