HC Deb 07 April 1976 vol 909 c170W
59. Mr. Robin F. Cook

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the reduction in numbers of employees of British Rail from nationalisation to the latest convenient date.

Mr. Marks

410,074 in all. Some 26,600 of this total comprise staff who were transferred to the National Freight Corporation on 31st December 1968.