footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; dieselisation; locomotives; T1 childhood; train spotting; cleaner; Hassland Depot (?); passed fireman; 33 Garretts; mainline; pressure on Garretts; lodgings; Tottley Tunnel; 1-100, smoke; engines, driving wheels; driver at Hassland; attitude, 1930s; trade union branch meetings; fireman; stories about drivers; class 8 locomotives; depot closure 1964; avenue sidings; dieselisation; Stratford; passed to drive, Hilton Green X London trains; d.o.b. 1937-04-16, railway work 1952-1996. Hassland Depot; London; Tottley Tunnel;