operating department; traffic apprentice; training; station relief work; footplate experience; freight, coal traffic; assistant yard master, goods stations; Royal Engineers, movement control; assistant stationmaster; electrification; rolling stock assistant, British Rail Board Headquarters; d.o.b. 1931-09-28, railway work: 1952-1982, London Paddington; Gerrards Cross; South Wales; West Midlands; Farnborough; Longmoor Military Railway; Dettmold; Trieste; London Liverpool Street station; Enfield; British Rail Board headquarters;