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In 1962 , British Railways transferred control of all its main works to a central body called British Railways Workshops Division, with its headquarters in Derby . The Transport Act of 1968 allowed the railway to seek outside contracts and in 1970 , the Workshops Division was renamed British Rail Engineering Limited. From nationalisation, design responsibility had passed from the various constituent railways to the Central Executive. In 1962 this became the British Railways Board Its technical staff were under the control of the Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, later renamed Director of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. They, along with the headquarters staff of BREL, moved into purpose built accommodation at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby. At the same time, the new British Rail Research Division was formed as a separate entity, reporting directly to the Board. In 1988 it was split into '' British Rail Maintenance Limited '' (BRML), whose ownership was retained by British Rail, and ''British Rail Engineering (1988) Limited'' which was prepared for privatisation. In 1989 it was purchased by the Swiss- Swedish conglomerate ABB (ASEA-Brown Boveri) 40% and Trafalgar House 40% and a MEBO of 20% forming BREL Ltd. It was laterly bought out by ABB to form ABB Transportation Ltd. This company was itself subsequently merged with Daimler-Benz to form ADtranz (ABB-Daimler Benz Transportation), and even later was bought by the Canadian conglomerate, Bombardier . |
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