Canning, Philip

clerk, staff section, (CO4) stock control; accounts section head; admin & finance assistant to Deputy Chief Executive; entrance examinations; District Engineers Office running powers, company trains; workshops, type of work; addressographs; nationalisation; types of materials in storage, system of charging; stock records; supervisor relations; Direct Labour Organisation (DLO) backlog following Second World War; clerk's duties; modernisation & electrification; salaries; reorganisation of civil engineer department; reconciliation of practice; joint divisional Divisional staff sections; computerisation; Daily Work Returns; time sheets; Chief Permanent Way Inspector; railway traditions; British Rail Board Community Unit; budgets, priorities, amounts available during 1980s; decline of traditional outside staff trades; advances in engineering technology; jointed, continously welded rail (CWR); increase of administration; battery powered lights in trackside warning boards; disadvantages of gas; d.o.b. 1930-09-01, railway work: 1945-1990, Walsall; Crewe; Birmingham; Wolverhampton; London Midland Region; Walsall Enterprise Agency;