stationmaster; Royal Engineers; milk train; single line working; chief clerk; father's job, porter-signalman, signalman; school; Second World War; Home Guard; model engines; Pevensey Bay; evacuation; Suffolk; mother's early life; father becoming a signalman 1948; starting work; Pevensey Bay Station; livestock; station work; role, station master; National Service; father; Eggesford North Devon; station house; Royal Engineers, 1950-52; national dock strike; return to railway; Exeter; trains office; milk tank; relief work; Lapford Station; cattle feed traffic; rabbits; single line working; tablet working; relief work, Ilfracombe, Barnstaple; camping coaches; RAF Chivenor; Barnstaple goods; Eggesford pigs; Western Region takeover; transfer to Southern Region; father station master at Ford; relief work on Southern Region Central, conditions; shifts; Lower Regent Street; chief clerk, Gatwick 1958; construction of Gatwick new station; ticket sales; signal lamps; branch line stations; Christ's Hospital station Ford station; Gatwick; Caribbean immigrants; old Gatwick station; training enquiries; Broadstairs; meeting wife; station houses; death of father; railway pensions; work study; bonus schemes; weekend work; transfer to Waterloo; move home; children; early work study; retirement; holiday home; royal visits; work study practice, carriage cleaning, shunting; drivers; work study, station work, clerical staff; headquarters staff office, Waterloo, 1982; area managers; establishment; organisation; conditions discipline; London Bridge; relief wages clerk; Battersea; booking office; cashing-up; ticket sales, Victoria station, Regent's Street, French motorail; hobbies; holiday home; family; d.o.b. 1931-12-06. railway work 1948-1988. Pevensey Bay; Exeter; Gatwick; Waterloo; Barnstable Goods.