King, Tom
- Made:
- circa 1991-1992 in Interviewee's home
locomotive sounds; starting work; appointment as premium engine cleaner; transfer to Derby; Bourneville Depot; spare fireman; shunting; cleaning engines; conditions; first day as a fireman; fog; colleagues; permanent way work; railway horses; First World War ambulance trains; nature of traffic; incidents; engine drivers; chocolate freight; work of a spare fireman; nationalisation; cleaning tanks; wooden brake blocks; flat wheels; lodgings; firing; d.o.b. 1898-06-25; railway work 1927-1963. Derby; Bath; Saltleigh; Bourneville; Selly Oak; Birmingham; Cadbury's sidings; Camden shed; Kentish Town; Sand sidings; Walsall; Ryecroft shed; Holbeck; Lickey incline; Bristol; London Midland & Scottish (LMS); Great Western Railway; Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.
Details
- Category:
- Oral Histories
- Collection:
- National Archive of Railway Oral History
- Object Number:
- NAROH2000-39/1
- Materials:
- audiocassette
- Measurements:
-
: 109 x 69 x 15 mm
- type:
- oral history recording
- credit:
- Williams, Roy
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