Bradshaw, William P. (Bill). Lord

goods agent; trains superintendent; divisional movements manager; general, area, terminals, & divisional manager; deputy general manager; chief operating manager; director of policy unit; general manager; 1955 Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers (ASLEF) strike; derailment; traffic apprentice interview; trade unionism, militants; Local Departmantal Committee (LDC); Bertrum Mills Circus workings; dieselisation; timetable changes; footplate experience; public complaints; livestock handbook arrangements; proof of deliveries; telegraph codes; small-wheeled containers; flat rate testing procedures; 1962 strike; staff shortages; immigrant workers; buffer stores; signalling failure; Bob Poynter; closures; freight delays; fire; joint inquiry procedures; signalmen, interviews, aptitude; 1966 timetable collapse; signal boxes; strikes; mess arrangements; television interview; budget targets; royal train; staff loyalty; management tactics; management messes; three day week; work of divisional manager; disabled access; business expansion; Passenger Transport Executive (PTE), relationships; Margaret Thatcher; Rainhill trials; negotiations; Advanced Passenger Train (APT); Peter Parker; Will Camp; comparitive study of European railways; railways into roads; SPU; Jimmy Saville; HQ move to Swindon; Bob Reid; High Speed Train (HST), operations, new livery; Chris Patten; Parliamentary transport advisor; d.o.b. 1936, railway work: 1959-1986, Slough; Reading; Bristol, Parkway; Bath; Ottram; Cardiff Valleys; London Paddington; Greenford; Oxford; Twyford; Wycombe-Maidenhead; Didcot; Cheltenham; Old Oak Common; Princes Risborough; Penzance-Birmingham; Westbury; Aberthaw; Gloucester; Swindon; Exeter; LiverpoolSettle & Carlisle; Wigan; Milton Keynes; Penmanshiel tunnel; Oxford; Salford; Department of Transport; Foster Yeoman Aggregate; Great Western Railway: London Midland & Scottish; British Rail; ICI Runcorn; Settle & Carlisle; Rainhill; Western Region;