Transport Tribunal Northern Ireland

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2024.3
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Transport Tribunal Northern Ireland
Scope and content: A 1946 White Paper proposed the amalgamation of the Belfast & County Down Railway), the NCC (Northern Counties Committee) section of the London Midland & Scottish and the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board, together with the Northern Ireland section of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) into a single organisation - the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA).
The Transport Act (N.I.) followed and in 1948 the UTA came into existence.
The UTA devised plans to close much of the railway system and applied to the Transport Tribunal in March 1949 for authority to proceed.
This archive contains bound volumes of the proceedings before the Transport Tribunal 1949 on the discontinuance of BCD rail services; proceedings and exhibits of the UTA before the Transport Tribunal 1951/52; analysis of evidence before the Transport Tribunal (1952); internal investigations by members of the tribunal (1951/52); UTA classification of merchandise and settlement of maximum charges and conditions (1953); settlement of maximum charges and ordinary conditions for UTA passenger services (1954); application by UTA for modification of maximum charges and appeal to High Court(1955); first general revision of maximum charges…(1956); modifications and confirmation of maximum charges etc. for UTA services (1956/57); application of Rathcoole Tennant’s Association (1959); modification and settlement of maximum charges (1960, 1961, 1962, 1964); Northern Ireland Parent’s Association (1961); discontinuation of Railway Service Transport Act (N.I.) 1948 Section 57 proceedings before the Transport Tribunal (1964)
Archival boxes containing papers and files; files taken to Queen’s Quay; Tribunal reports, proceedings, and decisions.