David Glyndwr Williams Interviewed by David Maidment

Made:
2021-05-21 in Leighton Buzzard
maker:
David John 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.

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
Britain's Railways All Change
Object Number:
2022-49
type:
oral history interview
credit:
Britain Railway’s All Change Oral History Archive (BRAC), created in partnership with the Friends of the National Railway Museum, the Retired Railway Officers' Society and the National Railway Museum