British Railways Board

The British Railways Board (BRB) was the management of British Railways (become then British Rail) of 1962 until its Privatization in the Années 1990.

The BRB was created by the law on transport ( Transport Act ) of 1962 by the government consevator of Harold Macmillan to assume the responsibilities in the railway field for the brtannic commission for transport ( British Transport Commission ), dissolved at the same time. It ensured the control of British Railways/British Rail since January 1st 1963 until the privatization carried out by the conservative government of John Major within the framework of the law on the railroads ( Railway Act ) of 1993. He survived in a residual form, ( BRB (Residuary) Ltd ), subsidiary company with 100% of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA). Via its subsidiary company, Rail Property Ltd , it preserves the load of the nonaffected railway field at the exploitation, for example the plate of the lines closed within the framework of the program Beeching Axe .

British Railways Board also preserves a great quantity of files S on the railroads, in the form of Document S, of charts, films and photographs, going up before the nationalization. At the time of privatization in the years 1990, those were distributées at various organizations: the films went to the British Film Institute to London, the photographs with the national museum of the railroads ( National Railway Museum , NRM) to York, and the majority of papers to the Public Record Office.

See too

British British Rail
railway System

External bonds

British Railways Board, site officeil (in English)

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