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PDF 83 May 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 note (meeting to decide between diesel or electricity) [attendees; outcome] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Railwaymen's Pay") [details of Railway Board's proposed pay offer; pay/productivity linkage] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Walters minute to Scholar ("British Rail") [record of conversation with Sir Peter Parker: "to see whether we could arrange for... [BR] to make better use of its assets"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Aug 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: King minute to MT ("Objectives for the next Chairman of the British Railways Board") [key points; draft objectives] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Railway policy") ["we must be explicit... in our instructions to Bob Reid... [his] temptation will always be to find excuses [to avoid closure of railway lines]": key points] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Railway policy") ["my main reaction to the papers in advance of tomorrow's E(NI) discussion... One is bound to ask why the situation has deteriorated so much since 1978"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Railway policy") [main issues; handling] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: King minute to MT ("BR fares") [Railways Board proposals for 1984] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: King minute to MT ("Brief for Chairman of BR") [revised draft; proposal to publish brief and make statement to Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Brief for Chairman of British Rail") [comments on revised draft: "We specifically agreed that the sentence ruling out major route closures should be deleted"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: King PS letter to Biffen PS ("Statement on British Rail: 24 October 1983") [King's proposed statement to Parliament concerning incoming Chairman's brief: MT queries why information cannot instead be relayed by written PQ] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: King PS letter to No.10 (Woodside to Selsdon Rail to Road Study) [press notice] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Objectives for the Chairman of British Rail") [comments on revised draft objectives] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Objectives for the Chairman of British Rail") ["On transitional costs... [MT] thinks that it is unwise to advertise this problem in the brief"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 minute to MT ("BR statement") [report on Ridley statement's reception in Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("BR fares") [update on fares increase following Board meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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