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Title: Rail archives to be saved for the nation Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 07, 2010, 20:23:14 From rail-news.com (http://rail-news.com/2010/04/07/rail-archives-to-be-saved-for-nation/):
Quote A national archive is to be created to ensure that the records from train operators and rail companies that no longer exist, such as GNER, are conserved and made available to the public. An agreement between the Railway Heritage Committee and the National Museum of Science and Industry, parent body of the National Railway Museum, will ensure that records do not become fragmented and inaccessible to the public. Any material which is still regarded as commercially sensitive will be placed into deep storage until it is able to be released. National Railway Museum Director, Steve Davies MBE said: ^Search Engine, our railway archive based at York, is already a popular and valuable resource for historians and academics into the history of Britain^s railway down to 1997. The Rail Industry National Archive will ensure that the records continue unbroken into the period of privatisation ^ a unique and continuous record of the changes in business and society that the railway brought to Britain.^ This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |