Carriage & Wagon Works; footplate, knocker-up, cleaner; fireman; guard; traffic, cars; banking locomotives; trade unions; carriage and wagon works, Swindon Shop 21A, building wagons; Second World War; flat wagons; parts supplied from USA; footplate work; cleaning, knocking-up; fireman (Cirencester); Swindon depot; pilot, transfer duties; Swindon depot; pilot transfer duties; relief and control link; Paddington trains; castle class locomotives; incident, safety valve cover; Reading Station; driving; speed; marriage problems; work-related injury (dermatitis); porter-shunter; ballast train working; motor car trains; banking locomotives (Brimscombe); incidents, train breakaways, coupling failures; work-related health problems; retirement; goods wagon incident; royal train working; trade union membership, ASLEF, AEU, NUR; d.o.b. 1927-07-04. railway work 1939-1992. Swindon; Cirencester; Paddington.