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Title:
General Adrian Lyons interviewed by Richard Malins
Object name(s):
oral history interview; oral history interview
Brief description:
Oral history interview with General Adrian Lyons, conducted and recorded by Richard Malins at the interviewee's home in West Berkshire on 21 March 2019. Duration: 1 hr. 50 min. 30 sec. Army involvement with railways at Longmoor and in Germany; privatisation impact; retirement from Army; joining Railway Forum; Hatfield accident; Great Heck accident interviews; Railway Forum formation; stakeholder involvement; Railtrack collapse; Strategic Rail Authority (SRA); Richard Bowker and Tom Winsor relationship; Railway Forum improving industry image; passenger growth; Rail Review 2005; SRA and Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) relationship; abolition of SRA; Network Rail; John Armitt; Iain Coucher; leaving Railway Forum 2006; effects of privatisation; Railway Conversion League; press tactics; Department for Transport (DfT) taking control; retirement; military railways in Germany; military railways; Royal Engineers (RE); cultural similarities between military and railways; technology change; Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS); integration of external technology; Crossrail; management culture change; South West Trains (SWT); Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB); standards to combine theoretical and practical; reflections on accidents; Network Rail
Collection:
Science Museum Group
Associated person:
Adrian Lyons
Person's association:
interviewee
Credit line:
Britain’s Railways All Change (BRAC) oral history archive, created in partnership with the Friends of the National Railway Museum, the Retired Railway Officers’ Society and the National Railway Museum.
Object name:
oral history interview; oral history interview
Object production date:
Date - earliest / single:
2019
Date - latest:
2019
Object production date:
Date - association:
made
Date - earliest / single:
2019
Date - latest:
2019
Object production person:
Malins, Richard W.
Object production place:
West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Other number:
2021-53
Other number type:
accession number
Other number:
E2020.0210.1
Other number type:
previous number
Responsible department/section:
NRM - Oral Histories
Right holder:
Science Museum Group
Right type:
Copyright

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a23ffc17-2395-3150-8724-c7b9afdfc96d

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a23ffc17-2395-3150-8724-c7b9afdfc96d, Science Museum Group, CC BY

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