Better Rail Campaign

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Records relating to the Save Our Railways campaign from 1975 - 2002, including correspondence; policy work (1990-2001); work on the Passenger Service Requirement (1992-2001); legal challenges (1995-1997); general press releases and news briefings produced by Save Our Railways and the Better Rail Campaign (1988-1998); administrative records (1987-2001); photographs (c. 1999-c.2002); publications, booklets, research reports and other printed materials (1995-1999); publications, press cuttings, and reports collected by Save Our Railways (1975-1997); and printed posters and signs from campaign stunts (1995-2002). Materials document Save Our Railways' initiatives to campaign on railways-related topics in the final years before the Railways Bill introduced privatised rail infrastructure, engineering, track maintenance, signalling, Train Operating Companies, and other aspects of railway operations for passengers and goods transport in the United Kingdom; the formation of a Strategic Rail Authority; rail land use and station and line closures; timetabling, accessibility, and fares; and other features of passenger transport by rail.

Records from Save Our Railways
Contains press releases and news briefings from Tim Powell, Save Our Railways organisers Keith Bill and Jonathan Bray, Transport 2000, and the Better Rail Campaign, relating to Virgin ticketing scandal, tilting trains, routing, fare increases, rural rail, London railways, Heathrow link, Passenger Service Requirements, overcrowding, safe stations, staffing, Railtrack, privatisation and passenger experience, rail closures, 'Sardines' at Euston station, and the end of Save Our Railways campaign.

General press releases and news briefings
File is comprised of one bundle of press releases produced and printed by Better Rail Campaign (1988-1994).

Press releases produced by the Better Rail Campaign
A series of correspondence, meeting minutes, briefings, and one DVD produced by Jonathan Bray and other Save Our Railways organisers, Members of Parliament including Glenda Jackson, Gerald Howarth, Mike Gapes, and Bill Brian, John Swift, Office of the Rail Regulator, Office of Passenger Rail Franchising (OPRAF), Railtrack, the Better Rail Campaign, the Railway Development Society, and others, 1995-1998. Documents cover privatisation and its effects, service quality, campaign documents including The Way Forward and Charter for Rail, Labour influence, rail policy, proposal for the Strategic Rail Authority, rolling stocks, railway land sales, rural routes, amendment for blind and partially sighted people, line and station closures, and more. Meeting groups include those with Transport 2000, Franchise Forum West and South West, Independent Transport Advisory Group, Labour Rail Policy Group, Rail Policy Roundtable, Railway Reform Group (a sub-group of the Retired Railway Officers Society), and Westminster Communications Group.

General policy work executed by Save Our Railways
A file comprised of leaflets, information booklets, flyers, campaign updates, and briefings covering the years 1988 - 1993 and produced by the Better Rail Campaign which discuss local rail line closures, meetings of unions National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA), and Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) with British Railways to discuss the Better Rail plan, railways bill, privatisation, and parliamentary lobbying meetups.

Leaflets, brochures, and other printed materials produced by the Better Rail Campaign