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
Details
- Category:
- Oral Histories
- Collection:
- National Archive of Railway Oral History
- Object Number:
- NAROH2000-35
- Materials:
- plastic (unidentified)
- Measurements:
-
: 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.; 80 x 72 x 8 mm
- type:
- oral history recording
- credit:
- Friends of the National Railway Museum
