footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; dieselisation; East Coast mainline; childhood; starting work for LMS; Second World War; cleaner, training; bar lad; steam raiser; pass cleaner; fireman; training, qualifying, trade union; Bob Keen (Inspector); shunt engine; conditions, work rate; freight; firing technique; fireman tasks; steam raiser tasks; conditions, hours, shifts, pay, jobs, Holyhead Mail, rota, routes; derailment; Cyril Machin, driver; weather, fog; learning the road; Billy Walker, driver; social life; conditions, hours, pay; community; pass fireman c. 1954-65, qualifying, driving; Healey Mills depot, freight, diesel locomotives; motivation; conditions; shifts; role of fireman, diesel locomotives; runaway train, Burton Salmon, Manchester; Holbeck Leeds, 1969; express depot; freight driver; passenger driver; health; divorce; shunt engine driver, Holbeck Shed Yard; mainline 1983; retraining; High Speed Train (HST) 125; remarriage; second driver; passenger express mainline to London; single manning; signalling incident, Barkston Junction; Bob Urie; attitude; weather; fog; speed controller; training, electric locomotives; train arrangement; train breakdown; experiences on Leeds-London (1983-1993); TV crew; ambition; conditions; steam locomotives; retirement; d.o.b.1929-04-10; railway work 1929-1993. Leeds; Liverpool Lime Street-Hillstown. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.