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unusual facts about British Steel


VolkerRail

This is a very long standing contract and is a legacy of British Steel's ownership of Grant Lyon Eagre and subsequently Corus' part ownership of GrantRail.


David Brookman, Baron Brookman

Between 1993 and 2002, he was member of the European Coal and Steel Community Consultative Committee, between 1993 and 1998 joint secretary of the British Steel Strip Trade Board and of the British Steel Joint Standing Committee, as well as joint secretary of the British Steel European Works Council between 1996 and 1999.

Dibbles Bridge coach crash

Whilst travelling between Greenhow and Hebden stand-in coach driver Roger Marriott, a British Steel security officer, missed a gear on the moorland road.

Ravenscraig steelworks

The Ravenscraig steelworks, operated by Colvilles and from 1967 by British Steel, consisted of an integrated iron and steel works and a hot strip steel mill.


see also

British Steel Redcar railway station

According to the SRA only 486 tickets to or from British Steel Redcar station were sold during 2004–05 as there is no public access to and from the station (it being located on Tata Steel Europe property) and it has a very limited service.

Brookman

David Brookman, Baron Brookman (born 1937), British steel worker and trade unionist

Charles Villiers

Charles Hyde Villiers (1912–1992), British businessman and chairman of British Steel

Hunterston

Hunterston Terminal, the deep-water ore terminal and associated railhead built by British Steel

Outokumpu

In 1992, British Steel Stainless merged with the Swedish firm Avesta (as in Avesta Municipality) to form Avesta Sheffield, and in 2001 merged with Outokumpu, making it the third-largest stainless steel producing company in the world at the time.