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1981 Aug 4 - 1982 Feb 9
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/931
Transport (Railway policy: British Rail pay dispute) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 264
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Date Value Title
81 Dec 16 We Major Transport: Howell minute to MT (“Railway productivity”) [trade union negotiations] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 24 Th Major Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar (“Industrial action on the railways”) [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 5 Tu Major Transport: Howell minute to MT (“Railway productivity”) [rail strike] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 10 Su Major Transport: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Industrial action by railway workers”) [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 12 Tu Major Transport: Howell minute to MT (“Railway productivity”) [rail strike] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 12 Tu Major Transport: No.10 minute to Lawson (ASLEF dispute) [rail strike] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 14 Th Major Transport: Howell minute to MT (“ASLEF dispute”) [rail strike] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 18 Mo Major Transport: No.10 minute to MT (“ASLEF dispute”) [rail strike] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 20 We Major Transport: Howell minute to MT (“ASLEF dispute”) [rail strike] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 22 Fr Major Transport: No.10 Policy Unit internal minute (“ASLEF dispute”) [rail strike] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 22 Fr Major Transport: Howell PS letter to Private Secretaries (guidance notes on the rail dispute) [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 27 We Major Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar (“ASLEF dispute”) [rail strike] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 3 We Major Transport: Alan Walters minute to MT (“Chairman of the railway finance review board”) [rail strike] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 3 We Major Transport: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Industrial effects of ASLEF strike”) [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 5 Fr Major Transport: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Your meeting on coal stocks and the ASLEF dispute”) [“could bring about long overdue… changes”] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 8 Mo Major Transport: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Whitelaw, Howe, Nott, Jenkin, Howell) [“Coal and the railways” - decision to move to maximum oilburn in England & Wales] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 9 Tu Major Transport: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Emergency oilburn: public expenditure aspects”) [rail strike] [declassified 2012]