booking office; Beeching closures; management training; different goods traffic; assistant yard master; weather, snow; exhibition train; passenger marketing; tours manager; divisional passenger manager; investment; branch closures; divisional freight manager; sectorisation; marketing (construction); resources; Speedlink; Freightliner director; automotive traffic; Channel Tunnel; d.o.b. 1944-09-23, railway work: 1966-1995, (booking office work pre-1966), Rank Xerox; TraineX; Breakaway; Stardust; SAGA; Speedlink; Freightliner; SNCF, Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais; Rover; Fiat; Ford; Birmingham New Street; Manchester Piccadilly; Miles Platting; Eastern Europe; Swindon; London; Woking College; Doncaster; Skegness; Hull; Cleethorpes; Newark; Humber Bridge; New Holland; Spalding-March; Peterborough; Great Yarmouth; Nottingham; Melton Mowbray; Peak District; Longbridge; Channel Tunnel; Milan; Spain;