footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; driver training; locomotives; childhood; gobbler Woodford; Second World War Blitz; crossing, operation; signalman's wife incident; passed cleaner; Buck Jumpers; 24 links; Stratford overhaul locomotives; 1500s; outstation cover; 1000+ footplate; N7 tank locomotives; driver training; braking; Liverpool Street Station; Britannias; express locomotives, 70003, mainline links; qualifying as a driver; 100 spare passed fireman; 1960 Britannia, driver check; East London link; Clacton electrification trials, 309 units, 1100hp, 100mph; Clacton interoad (?) service; convalescent train facilities; experimental trials; 1982 Centenary run, Clacton-Liverpool Street; social life; branch security; d.o.b. 1930-03-18, railway work 1948-1993, Stratford; Liverpool Street; Clacton;