Barker, Roy
- Made:
- 2001-04-30 in Doncaster
Doncaster Wagon Shops and Plant Works, labourer, wood carrier, bogie underframe cleaner; childhood in Doncaster; school; father, a miner and council worker; Second World War memories; family of six people; mother died at an early age, housekeepers; 1944 volunteered for Army; first job as an apprentice signwriter; Army training, posted to India, 1944; demobilised in Derby, old job; worked in bakery; surface work at colliery; marriage; job with British Rail for more money; labourer at Doncaster wagon Shops; wood carrier at Doncaster wagon Shops; Beeching period, breaking up of wagons; cleaning fish wagons for other use; transfer to Doncaster for Plant Works; working conditions; promoted to chargehand; bogie cleaner; underframe cleaning in the DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) shop; protective clothing; working with asbestos; 1987 made redundant; general comments on working conditions; d.o.b. 1926-12-01, railway work 1959-1987. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.
Details
- Category:
- Oral Histories
- Collection:
- National Archive of Railway Oral History
- Object Number:
- NAROH2001-67
- Materials:
- plastic (unidentified)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 80 x 72 x 8 mm
- type:
- recording
- credit:
- Friends of the National Railway Museum
