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Railway Finances - Report of a Committee chaired by Sir David Serpell KCB CMG OBE
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Sample Quote "We were appointed...to examine the finances of the railway and associated operations, in the light of all relevant considerations, and to report on options for alternative policies, and their related objectives, design to secure improved financial results in an efficiently run railway in Great Britain over the next 20 years."

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Archivist's Summary The Serpell report was essentially an attempted re-run of Beeching-style closures of secondary routes. Unlike the first attempt, there were fewer obvious candidates for closure; Serpell ran into a political trap with the infamous 'table A', which showed all but a few ex-London mainlines closed, and left Glasgow and Edinburgh as the northern outposts of the network.

This option was seized upon by the report's opponents, and they successfully killed the whole exercise. The report did, however, set the tone for the next few years, with BR cutting costs and attempting to close lines by stealth.

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Category Financial & economic reports
Related Event N/A
Date of Publication 19th December 1982
Author(s) Department of Transport
Publisher Her Majesty's Stationery Office
Sourced? Yes
Source British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service
Original Document Link Click Here
Source Format Scanned Images
Document Copyright Crown
Permission Requested? Yes
Permission Granted? Yes
PDF Available? Yes
PDF File Copyright Creative Commons License The Railways Archive
Creative Commons License
No. of Pages 129
Size of Download (Mb) 2.7
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19th December 1982
Railway Finances - Report of a Committee chaired by Sir David Serpell KCB CMG OBE

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April 1983
Serpell Committee Report on the Review of Railway Finances: Second Report from the Transport Committee

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1st May 1984
Government Observations on the First, Second and Third Reports of the Committee, Session 1982-83

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