office boy; carriage works apprentice; training, carriage construction; drawing office; work study; Winston Churchill's funeral; carriage repairs; general manager's saloon; derailments, continuous welded rail; exhibition trains; weather; wagons, claims, maintenance; privatisation; nuclear industry; Transmark; consultancy; TOPS; d.o.b. 1935-10-06, railway work: 1950-c.1990s, BR Southern Region; London Brighton & South Coast Railway; London Transport; South Eastern & Chatham Railway; Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais (SNCF); Transfera; Rank Xerox; Post Office; New Zealand Railways; English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS); Lancing carriage works; Brighton; Micheldever; London; Eastleigh works; Portsmouth; Southampton; Eastleigh locomotive shed; Slade Green electric sheds; London Victoria station; Stewarts Lane; Waterloo & City line; Isle of Wight; Acton London Transport Executive works; Wimbledon depot; Clapham junction; Bournemouth; Hastings; Ashford works; London Waterloo station; Croydon; Poole; Weymouth; New Crossgate works; Dunkirk; Salisbury; Eastern Europe; Ulster; Belfast; Selhurst; Swindon; London King's Cross; York; Sellafield; Australia; Derby;