Perry, Robert

Made:
2002-09-23 in Interviewee's home
maker:
Nick Alexander

station clerk; relief clerk; station master; relief station master; assistant station manager; assistant manager; route controller; check ticket sales; single needle telegraph; goods and passenger duties; clerical pay; levels of passenger traffic; station houses described, general conditions; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), local secretary; Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA); stationmaster's range of duties; staff description; provision of uniform; up-side/down-side inspectors; condition of steam locomotives at Enfield lock; incidents, Prince Philipp, Harold Wilson; platform numbering; Examination, guards, rules and regulations; grading disparity; crane operators; wagon sets, rigid couplers; 20 ton units, "teu" safety procedures; propelling movements; effect of traffic growth; vehicle scheduling; Local Departmental Committee (LDC); six tracks double-ended; locomotive derailment; d.o.b. 1924-09-16, railway work: 1940-1975, Enfield; Hamilton House; Angel Road; London, Liverpool Street, King's Cross; St Margaret's; Buntingford Branch; Hertford East; Haileybury College; Roydon; Ayr; Pin Mill (Ipswich); Parkestone Quay; Bishop's Stortford; Stratford; Cheshunt; Ayot; Wroxham; Wydmondham; Foulsham; Bealings; Six Mile Bottom; Woodbridge; Reepham; Norwich; Enfield Lock; Shenfield/Southend; Waltham Cross; Harlow; Burnt Mill; Willesden; London Underground; Freightliner; British Rail; National Freight Corporation;

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2002-138
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
: 72 x 80 x 8 mm
type:
oral history recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum