National Union of Railwaymen 1913 - 1990

The National Union of Railwaymen was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It was headquartered at Unity House, Euston Road, London, London County, United Kingdom. The Union was founded in 1913. The deputy general secretary of NUR, Sidney Weighell, founded Transport 2000, now the Campaign for Better Transport. At one time the largest union in the railway industry, the National Union of Railwaymen was dissolved in 1990, when it merged with the National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers.

The mandate of the National Union of Railwaymen was to offer support and protection for all railway workers active in the United Kingdom. Members were entitled to legal advice and support to seek compensation, arrangements, and support for those who were no longer able to work, whether that was due t unemployment, injury, illness, age, or death. The Union had a special focus on working hours, wages, and labour conditions, and was instrumental in the national trade union movement in the UK throughout the twentieth century, responsible for forging an eight-hour working day in 1919.

Related Documents

One file contains two bundles of administrative records for the Better Rail Campaign and Save Our Railways, produced by both campaigns, Union Communications, and the Railway Development Society, and one letter produced by the National Union of Railwaymen (1987-1997). Bundle one contains policy documents "Moving Save Our Railways Forward", "Summary of the Government's White Paper on Rail Privatisation", "Save Our Railways Progress Report", "The Fight Against Privatisation- The Fight So Far", "Campaign for a Better Railway. A Public Relations programme based upon the North Eastern Railway Association (NERA) report to the National Union of Railwaymen", and other policy and strategic documents and discussion papers outlining union collaborations, collaboration of Save Our Railways and the Better Rail Campaign with government, the formation of Save Our Railways and its accounts, progress reports, and budgets. Bundle two contains strategic documents including "Save Our Railways relaunch: Stop and think again on rail privatisation", "A Strategy to Prevent the Break-up of the Railways", and "Towards the General Election", and typed documents relating to collaboration with other groups including Transport Salaried Staffs' Association and the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union, and cooperation with Transport 2000's Platform campaign.

Strategy documents of Save Our Railways and the Better Rail Campaign
File is comprised of letters from Susan Hoyle, National Union of Railwaymen, Bognor Regis and Victoria Organisation; press release from Dorking and District Rail Users' Organisation; and briefing and points of debate on the Southern Region Timetable Changes and British Rail's concessions to timetabling.

Papers relating to Southern Region Timetable Changes