David Glyndwr Williams Interviewed by David Maidment

Oral history interview with David Glyndwr, conducted and recorded by David Maidment at the interviewee's home in Bedfordshire on 21 May 2021. Duration: 1 hr. 2 min. 31 sec. Head of Management Accounting for British Rail, Cardiff Division and other Rail Companies; Academic history; Public Service Obligation with the Treasury; Negotiations with Treasury and Department of Transport; His work as Managing Director of Rail Express Parcels; Royal Mail hub at Willesden- Mail contract lost due to Privatisation; Freight sales; Personal feeling on privatisation; Management Buy Out (MBO); Sale of Rail Express Systems to English, Welsh and Scottish Railways; Sale of Rai freight Distribution (RFD)- Eurotunnel Contract; Redundancy; Project work for Residual Railways Board; National Audit office challenge of RFD sale; briefing permanent secretary on RFD sale; Interaction with bankers and lawyers; Privatisation Steering Group; Rolling Stock Company sale; Purchase of Thameslink and Hitachi Trains; Should have retained sector model with vertical integration

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.