Survival plan for Shildon rail works

Title

Survival plan for Shildon rail works

Genre

Interview

TX Date

4 Mar 1983

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:03:46

Description

Interview with acting General Secretary of the NUR, Brian Arundel, about plans to save British Rail’s threatened Shildon works and candidates for the upcoming Darlington by-election taking it on as a political issue. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Brian Arundel

Keywords

Elections; Politics; Government; Labour Party; Labour relations; British Rail; NUR; Unemployment; Railway workers; Darlington; Michael Foot; Redundancies; Shildon; Locomotive engineers

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