Gould, Hugh

Made:
2001-04-03 in York

traffic apprentice; summer work; guard, stationmaster; passenger manager; reorganisation; Continental Division; Shipping Division; childhood, school; summer work on railway, clerical, porter guard; passenger guard, Glasgow Central; management skills; traffic apprentice scheme, 1956; summer work, passenger guard, Glasgow Queen Street; university degree; traffic apprentice scheme; traffic apprentice scheme; special duties; James Ness, Gordon Stewart; stationmaster, Burntisland, 1960-62; Secretary to Transport Committee, London HQ; Passenger Assistant, Continental Department, Harwich House; reorganisation, Shipping Division, Liverpool Street; becoming European Sales Manager, 1971; new traffic, new offices; transfer to rail HQ under Chief Passenger Manager; rail HQ; Chief Passenger Manager at Paddington, 1983; sectorisation; two-tier reorganisation, 1984; 150th anniversary of Great Western Railway; 1985, Manager for Wales, sector directors; return to Swindon, short project work; retirement, 1988; retirement activities; d.o.b. 1933-06-14, railway work 1956-1988. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2001-70
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
overall: 80 x 72 x 8 mm
type:
recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum