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Letters, correspondence, copy minutes, formal comments and reports, and printed items, 1945-1946, relating to the Coal Industry Nationalisation Bill, including the Mining Association of Great Britain's comment on the Bill, a copy of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act of 1946, and printed material on the dangers of nationalisation (1919) and on the organisation of the National Coal Board (1948). The file also includes National Coal Board reports and accounts, 1948-50, and correspondence and letters, 1945, relating to the Office of Assistant Superintendent of the Great Western Railway, to the Export Credit Guarantee Fund, and to post-war industrial development of the railways and docks of the Great Western Railway.

Files created by the Pitwood Department relating to the supply and transportation of pitwood for use in Welsh collieries. Material comprises mainly correspondence, written between the Coal Owners Association and the Forestry Commission, the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Pitwood Importers Association, the Great Western Railway Co., the Ministry of Supply, and the Mining Association of Great Britain Timber Advisory.

Administrative files relating to rates charged for the transport of coal by rail and by sea. The files may include letters, correspondence, statistics, reports, and some printed items.

Papers relating to the court of the Railway Rates Tribunals held under the Railways Act, 1921, and the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933. Later Tribunals were also held under the Local Government Act, 1929, the Railway Freight Rebates Act, 1936, and the London Passenger Transport Act, 1933. Proceedings involved a number of railway companies including the Great Western Railway Company; Southern Railway Company; London Midland and Scottish Railway Company; and the London and North Eastern Railway Company. Files may contain minutes of proceedings, notes on proceedings, judgements, schedules of standard railway charges, provisional proposals by railway companies, Railway Clearing House statements, reviews of the operation of the Railway Freight Rebate Scheme, and classification lists of merchandise carried by rail.

Great Western Railway pamphlets on the railway's role in the prosperity of Cardiff, railway development, and rates and food prices, 1925-32; copies of papers read at Great Western Railway (London) Lecture and Debating Society sessions, 1923-5, regarding railway docks and the turning of ships; appendices to official railway station handbooks, 1926-31; and printed matter relating to railway legislation, in particular the Railways Acts of 1844 and 1921, and private railway acts, 1891-1897, covering Monmouthshire and South Wales.