A Sit-In at the Ulster Transport Authority

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A Sit-In at the Ulster Transport Authority

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Location

Belfast

Year

1964

Date

Production 06/05/1964

Length

44sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

The Ulster Transport Authority staff are on strike and staging a sit-in at the main depot. This strike is one of several in relation to the publishing of the Benson Report which implemented sweeping changes to public transport in Northern Ireland. 

Notes

In 1962, on the recommendation of Dr Richard Beeching, the Government of Northern Ireland commissioned a senior Coopers & Lybrand accountant, Sir Henry Benson, to report on the future of the UTA's railways. In 1963 Benson submitted his report, which recommended closing all UTA railways except the Belfast commuter lines to Bangor and Larne and the main line between Belfast and Dublin, and the reduction of the main line between Portadown and Dundalk to single track.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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