Smith, Leslie W.

Made:
2001-11-27; 2001-11-28; 2002-02-05; 2002-02-06 in Interviewer's home
maker:
Frank Paterson

junior clerk; traffic apprentice; marshalling yards; marketing; freight; major customers; private wagons; freight traffic; reorganisation; management; coal; electricity; freight reorganisation; Train Load freight; Railfreight distribution; privatisation; d.o.b. 1936-07-14, railway work 1952-1994, Grangemouth; Glasgow; Carstairs; Carlisle; Perth; Thornton; Stirling; Lochty; Crawley; Oban; Meldon; Didcot; Edinburgh; Dunbar; Acton; Severn Tunnel; Sizewell;

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2001-182
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
: 72 x 80 x 8 mm
type:
oral history recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum

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