footplate, cleaner, driver; Cheltenham Flyer; LMS express trains; Castle class, King class; Maunsell; engineer; maintenance sheds, Derby, Bath; coal wagons; Chief Mechanical Engineers comparison of London Midland & Scottish (LMS) & Great Western GWR; joining railway; Walsall; 1915; First World War; conditions, pay; labour shortages; cleaner; transfer to Derby; Saltleigh; goods traffic; variety of work; First World War raid, Derby Shed; Bourneville-London firing jobs; lodging at Cricklewood; Cadbury sidings - Kentish Town job; Cadbury special train; hostels; firing experiences; First World War, ambulance trains; problems getting steam up; GWR; Maunsell engineer; Schools class; civil engineer's role; crossing Irish Sea; job to Holyhead; hostels, Bourneville, Camden, Wilsden; lodgings, Kentish Town, Wellingborough, Northampton; sand sidings; Bourneville, 1922; Walsall; engine shed closure; Ryecroft Shed; 1936, driver; training; Bristol, Barrow Road; restricted opportunities; driving turns, Leeds, Newcastle, Weston-super-Mare; lodgings; conditions, hours, mileage, pay; discipline; record runs; going up a bank without a banker; stuck on Incline; Second World War; incident; defective wagons; propaganda; enquiry; punishment, demotion; air raids. d.o.b. 1898-06-25. railway work 1908-1963. Derby; Birmingham; London; Bourneville passenger shed. London Midland & Scottish (LMS); Great Western Railway (GWR). 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.