Midcalf, John Raymond

Made:
2002-05-22; 2002-05-24; in Interviewee's home

probationer, signalling and telegraph department; training; mechanical signalling; railway culture; signalling school; signal frames; signal boxes; electrical training; telecommunications; power signalling; assistant technician; telephone engineer's assistant; radio communications; technician; technical officer; Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); maintenance control engineer; transmission data and radio maintenance assistant; IRIS test trains; driver only operations; project assistant; staff training; Integrated Electronic Control Centre (IECC); electrification; fibre optics; telecoms testing and commissioning engineer; public information systems; safety; telecoms auditor, safety, quality and security manager; privatisation; d.o.b. 1947-03-21, railway work: 1962-2002, British Rail Eastern Region; Racall Telecommunications; Corus Rail; Railtrack; First Engineering; Tyneside Metro; Darlington; Redcar; Saltburn; Stockton North Shore; Sunderland; Durham; Heighington; Belasis Lane; Bishop Auckland; Brandon colliery; Brancepeth colliery; Eaglescliffe; Eaglescliffe North; Cliff House, Hartlepool; Darlington Technical College; Tees-side Polytechnic; Middlesbrough; Shildon works; Shildon North; Darlington goods depot; Redmarshall South; Bowesfield; Northallerton; Leyburn; Redmire; Bedale; Catterick; Darlington South; Richmond; Eryholme junction; Croft yards; Geneva signalbox; Tees yard; Thornaby; Yafforth; Grand Hotel, West Hartlepool; Zetland Hotel, Saltburn; Stooperdale offices, Darlington; Darlington North Road works; Newcastle; Percy Main; Whitby; York; Sheffield; Rotherham; Doncaster; Blandford House, London; Hadley Wood; London King's Cross; Peterborough; Cambridge; Derby; London Liverpool Street; Blackfriars Bridge; Saxmundham; Romford; Upminster; Letchworth; Colchester; Basildon; Birtley; Leeds; East Coast Main Line; Killingworth; Haltwhistle; Malton; Manchester; Glasgow; Inverness; Reading; Carlisle; Blyth; Stockton; Scunthorpe; Skipton; Chesterfield;

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2002-90
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
: 72 x 80 x 8 mm
type:
oral history recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum