Royal Engineers; train timing; special trains; coaching stock controller; East Coast Joint Stock; derailment; traffic apprentice; marshalling yard; parliamentary trains; traffic management; electrification; freight, coal; parcels; newspapers; electrical multiple unit (EMU); boat train; sales representative; traffic costing; marketing; commercial officer, Freightliner; shipping; divisional sales manager; coal, oil, steel; marketing officer, iron and steel; profit; rail freight manager; business sector management; cost allocation; Transmark; Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); d.o.b. 1931-04-22, railway work: 1955-1988, British Rail Eastern Region; London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Transport Underground; Ford Motor Company; Woolworths; National Carriers Ltd; British Raod Services; Freightliner Ltd; British Steel Corporation; London Liverpool Street; London King's Cross-Edinburgh; Peterborough; Whitemoor yard; Langwith junction; London, Tilbury & Southend line; Fenchurch Street; London St Pancras; High Wycombe; New Lodge, Windsor; Dagenham; Halewood; Harwich-Zeebrugge; Dagenham-Swansea; London Euston; Cardiff; Derby Railway Technical Centre; Llanwern-Park Royal; Port Talbot; York; Corby; Toton; Lackenby; Northallerton; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;