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18-461: (Redirected from Royal York Hotel ) Royal York may refer to: Hotels [ edit ] The Principal York , York, England (formerly known as The Royal York Hotel) Fairmont Royal York , Toronto, Ontario, Canada Transport [ edit ] Royal York Road , Toronto, Ontario, Canada Royal York (TTC) subway station, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Royal York , an international night train of

36-574: A deal that allowed Principal Hayley to continue managing the hotels for 25 years. Principal Hayley repurchased the six hotels in 2012, in the aftermath of the 2007–2008 financial crisis , for £200 million, £75 million less than they had sold them for. The following year, in 2013, the Principal Hayley Group was sold to Starwood Capital . The hotel was renovated and renamed The Principal York on 1 November 2016. Starwood Capital sold Principal Hayley to Fonciere des Regions in 2018, and

54-494: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Principal York The Milner York is an historic Grade II listed building on Station Road , adjacent to York railway station , England. It is a five-storey building of yellow Scarborough brick and was completed in 1878, a year after the present station opened. The Station Hotel opened on 22 February 1853 as an addition to York old railway station , designed by architect

72-568: The Canadian Pacific Railway and New York Central Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Royal York . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_York&oldid=1189606952#Hotels " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

90-549: The nationalisation of transport in Great Britain on 1 January 1948, and the establishment of the British Transport Commission , hotels and catering came under the control of BTC's Railway Executive. However, on 1 July 1948 they were separated from direct railway control and placed under British Transport Commission's Hotels Executive, chaired by Lord Inman, who was later succeeded by Sir Harry Methven. At this point

108-450: The railway hotel , initially at locations such as London Euston and Birmingham Curzon Street where hotels were opened at the start of trunk railway operation in 1839. Most of the railway companies followed suit, and by 1913 there were 93 railway owned hotels. The policies of the 'big four' railway companies differed considerably, with the LMS and LNER railways being the most enthusiastic. At

126-513: The BTC took direct control, establishing a "Hotel and Catering Services Division" to run them. Sir Harry Methven, the last Chairman of the Hotels Executive, became a member of the BTC. Further change occurred in 1962 with the abolition of the BTC and the transfer of its rail businesses to the newly established British Railways Board . The BRB Chairman, Richard Beeching , argued for the retention of

144-481: The Hotels Executive acquired 55 hotels and 400 station refreshment rooms, along with various golf courses, tennis courts, laundries, wine cellars, bottling stores and even a farm (at St Ives in Cornwall ). The Conservative government elected in 1951 sought to alter the structure of the British Transport Commission and its subsidiaries. One consequence was that the Hotels Executive was abolished on 19 August 1953, and

162-534: The North Eastern Railway catering department. This was the last investment under nationalised ownership. A typical turnover at this time was 1981s £1,225,000. This source stated that there were then 135 bedrooms and 23 in Friar's Garden. At this time 24 rooms were not en-suite. The Ebor Restaurant had 52 covers. In 2013, this was The Tempus Restaurant. Under Margaret Thatcher's government, ancillary activities of

180-584: The Old Course at St Andrews – in 1968 before further expansion was stopped by the Conservative government elected in 1970. The remainder of the hotel estate was rationalised – the 34 hotels inherited by BTH being reduced to 29 by 1979. Following the victory of the Conservative Party at the 1979 general election , led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , and the deteriorating economic situation, pressure

198-601: The hotel transferred to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). In 1948, Britain's railways were nationalised and with them York's railway hotel. Initially this was as part of the 'Hotels Executive' of the British Transport Commission. The British Transport Hotels brand came about in 1953. In 1981, an annexe to the hotel, called the Friars Garden Hotel , was opened in a building that formerly served as

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216-497: The hotels within the BRB's rail portfolio, and BTH Ltd was established to manage them. The intention was to give BTH a high degree of autonomy, including bringing in outside expertise in the hotel business to the BTH board. The Railways Act 1968 empowered BTH to expand beyond the railway estate, and the company considered opening a number of new hotels. In the event only one such hotel was opened –

234-584: The new owners contracted with IHG Hotels & Resorts to manage the properties. In October 2022, Glasgow-based RBH Management took over operations of the hotel. In March 2024, RBH announced their intention to rename the hotel The Milner York, for local war hero William Milner, the Second World War-era foreman of York station, killed on 29 April 1942 during German air raids known as the Baedeker Raids , while attempting to retrieve first aid supplies in

252-532: The new station. As the North Eastern Railway Company's flagship hotel, it was managed directly by the railway. It featured elegant, high-ceilinged banqueting rooms and 100 large bedrooms costing 14 shillings a night. It was built by Lucas Brothers . A 27-room west wing was added in 1896, nicknamed the "Klondyke" for the Klondike Gold Rush of the time. In 1923, ownership and management of

270-549: The railways were privatised. This included British Transport Hotels . The sale was held by public tender. The sale inventory dated October 1982 is held by the National Railway Museum at York . In 1983, the hotel was sold to Batchshire Limited , a subsidiary of Sea Containers , and renamed The Royal York Hotel. In 2006, the Principal Hayley Group sold The Royal York Hotel, along with five other hotels, to Active Asset Investment Management for £275 million, under

288-456: The station. The hotel was re-launched as The Milner York on 16 October 2024. Milner's 95-year-old daughter Brenda cut the ribbon at the hotel's official reopening ceremony. British Transport Hotels British Transport Hotels (BTH) was the hotels and catering business of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain . Britain's private railway companies pioneered the concept of

306-592: Was G. T. Andrews . Queen Victoria visited the hotel a year later, in 1854, and the hotel was renamed the Royal Station Hotel as a result. The first hotel became redundant after the opening of the new station in June 1877 and was converted into offices. The second Royal Station Hotel opened on 20 May 1878. Designed by architect William Peachey of the North Eastern Railway , the hotel was an integral part of

324-515: Was put on nationalised industries such as British Rail to consider asset disposal. It was not long before the BTH Hotels were under review. The management at the time, led by Peter Land, tried to establish a viable structure for a management buyout, which would have kept the group more or less intact and would have delivered a smooth transfer to the private sector. As Peter Land notes in his book Sauce Supreme , politics rendered this plan impossible and

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