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1983 May 4 - 1983 Oct 26
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1147
Transport (Railway policy) Part 7

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 110
Themes: Privatized & state industries, Public spending & borrowing, Transport

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Date Value Title
83 May 4 We Minor Transport: No.10 note (meeting to decide between diesel or electricity) [attendees; outcome] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 26 Th Major 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]
83 Jun 28 Tu Major 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]
83 Aug 2 Tu Major Transport: King minute to MT ("Objectives for the next Chairman of the British Railways Board") [key points; draft objectives] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 9 Fr Major 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]
83 Sep 12 Mo Major 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]
83 Sep 12 Mo Major Transport: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Railway policy") [main issues; handling] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 3 Mo Major Transport: King minute to MT ("BR fares") [Railways Board proposals for 1984] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 5 We Major Transport: King minute to MT ("Brief for Chairman of BR") [revised draft; proposal to publish brief and make statement to Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 7 Fr Major 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]
83 Oct 11 Tu Major 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]
83 Oct 11 Tu Major Transport: King PS letter to No.10 (Woodside to Selsdon Rail to Road Study) [press notice] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 18 Tu Major Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Objectives for the Chairman of British Rail") [comments on revised draft objectives] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 20 Th Major 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]
83 Oct 24 Mo Major Transport: No.10 minute to MT ("BR statement") [report on Ridley statement's reception in Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 26 We Major Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("BR fares") [update on fares increase following Board meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]