Oral history interview with Jeremy Long, conducted and recorded by Charles Devereux at the interviewee's office in MTR Corporation Headquarters, London on 10 January 2019. Duration: 53 min. 53 sec. Early career; awareness of potential rail privatisation; research and prepared first bids; London, Tilbury & Southend (LTS); Prism Rail; Alternative Investment Market (AIM) company; GB Railways; Anglia Railways; cost base; supply chain; working with rolling stock companies (ROSCOs) and Network Rail; innovation within Anglia; Norwich-Cambridge service; Class 170; open access; working with trade unions; creation of GB Railfreight; John Smith; sale of GB Railways to First Group; GB Railways involvement in first overseas bid; reflections on Anglia Railways; aftermath of Hatfield and transition to Network Rail; leaving First Group to join MTR; MTR group bid with Chiltern Railways (Adrian Shooter) for London Overground Rail Operations Limited (LOROL); unsuccessful bid for Pendeltog; Stockholm Metro

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.