footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; special trains, Grand National; control; train crew supervisor; incidents, derailment; childhood, Bury, cellar boy in cotton mill, bar lad; passed cleaner, fireman, Second World War, driver, qualifying examination; banking procedures, gradients; transfer to clerical grade, control; Woodhall Tunnel; 200 engines; Aintree Depot, Grand National; Grand National; footplate strike, Carlisle Canal Depot; road training (Glasgow); Carlisle Kingmoor; new marshalling yard; freightliner; weather 1962 (snow); detraining incident; Settle-Carlisle line (London-Edinburgh train); Carlisle Kingmoor; Christmas; Carlisle Kingmoor; d.o.b. 1939-07-12 . railway work 1939-1984. Woodhall Tunnel; Aintree depot; Carlisle Kingmoor; Derby Training School; Stratford