railway entrance examination; clerk; stationmaster; operating; traffic inspector; District Signalmen's inspector; Control; timetabling; diesel multiple units; reorganisations; Beeching closures; Junior Clerk North East Region Regional Operations Manager Eastern; introduction, reference to his books, "That Was My Railway"; family; father's job; school; farm work; school subjects, exams; social activities; leisure; rural attitudes; village life; social activities; leisure; music; food; illness; clothes; errands; leaving shool; farm work; Scarborough, First World War; Brafferton Station; self improvement; railway entrance exam; training for railway entrance exam; railway recruitment; entrance exam; work at Brafferton Station; Stationmaster; coal sales; Brafferton Station; station staff; livestock freight traffic; clerical training; telegraph; accounts; social activities; d.o.b. 1906-04-14, railway work 1922-1968, Brafferton; Bainton; Foggathorpe; Boroughbridge; York; Liverpool Street; North East and Eastern Region. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.