Dodds, Wes

Made:
2000-12-06 in Interviewee's home

signal engineering; apprenticeship; training; telegraph gangs work; Second World War; trade unions; mess arrangements for signal gangs; materials coach; conditions; weekend and night work; qualifications; porter/signalman; points work; weather; third rail; rail expansion; chief lineman; staff discipline; signalling test inspector; resignalling schemes; signalling instructor; signalling school; automatic half barriers; family atmosphere on railway; Thirsk cement train incident; incidents; on-call duty; d.o.b. 1920-06-01, railway work 1936-1982, London Notrth Eastern Railway (LNER); Newcastle; York; Healey Mills yard; Tyne yard; Thirsk; Skelton; Selby; Leeds

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2000-97
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
: 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.; 80 x 72 x 8 mm
type:
oral history recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum