Peck, John William

fitters work; loco shed master; technical assistant; assistant district power superintendent; traction running officer; subjects, locomotive workshops and drawing office; military railway operating training; 192 Railway Operating Company;banking engines; Italian locomotives; railway build up, d-day, 168 railway workshop company, repair of steam locomotives; conversion of captured German locomotive from coal to oil burning; wheel lathes; 'Medloc' troop train; locomotive casualties; preparing gradient profiles, eastern region; releif of Acting shed manager; break down of old regions, promotions between regions; differing workshop conditions; Mr Frampton; Dick Hardy; L.P. Parker's shed masters' meetings; cleaning up depots; railway estate department; burst boiler tubes, hard water, treatment systems, freight workings, Barrington-Ward scheme; B1 class; hand coaling; 12 coach trains; briquette treatment tubes, increased performance; K3 locomotives; Type 2 diesels, effectiveness, closure of steam sheds; Norman Porter; new Diesel Multiple Units (DMU); Class 37, 40, reliability, responsibility foir footplate staff; High Speed trains (HST); ASLEF; museum and steam preservation activity; d.o.b. 1919-10-06, railway work: 1938-1990s, Midland Min Line; Derby; Doncaster, Carr running shed; Gerrards Cross; Brancepeth; Newark; Longmoor; Italy; Dover; Liverpool Street; King's Cross; Leeds; Leicester central; Hatfield; Hitchen; Woodford Halse; Annesley; Immingham; Banbury; Neasden; Gorton; Lincoln; Middlesborough; Wakefield; Hammerton Street; York; Alnwick; Shildon; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); War Office; London Midland Scottish; Great central; National Coal Board (NCB); Central Electricity Generating Board (GEGB); Urwick Orr management consultants; National Railway Museum (NRM); Clapham Museum; Science Museum; Institute of Mechanical Engineers; Railtrack; Friends of the National Railway Museum (FNRM); First North Western;