Weeden, George

Made:
2002- in Interviewee's home
maker:
Gordon Charles Pettitt

Junior Clerk at Kings Cross Goods Depot; displaced in 1930 and taken to see L P Parker at Stratford; Class 1 Fitter at Stratford ; 1937interview with Sir Nigel Gresley and appointed to Locomotive Running Graduateship; Doncaster Plant Works, Kings Cross Locomotive Depot in 1938; 1940 appointed to Cambridge as supernumerary Running Shed Foreman; 1942 to Stratford as Running Foreman; South Lynn and then Eastfield, Glasgow; Shedmaster at Kings Cross at time of Locomotive Exchanges; Assistant District Motive Power Superintendent at Stratford; 1952 to Southern Region HQ at Waterloo; recollections of Bulleid Leader Class Locomotives; 1954 to Stewarts Lane as District Motive Power Superintendent; Lewisham incident; Regional motive power Officer, Southern; Divisional Manager at Croydon;

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2002-109
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
: 72 x 80 x 8 mm
type:
oral history recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum