Made during the interview training session. 1940s-1980s. Topics: civil engineering; major customers; Transmark; business-led organisation; Royal Engineers; Control; freight train planning; sectorisation; Places: Sheffield, Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham T1-4 blank; P. Boden T5 education; joining railway; T6 training ; National Service, Royal Engineers, 1954; T7 New Works; electrification; 1959, Bridge Assistant, Peterborough; Beeching plans; payment by results scheme, Sheffield; T8 track possessions; home life; Assistant Divisional Civil Engineer (Works), Bristol, 1972; T10 industrial customers, collieries, power stations; family; Sheffield, 1984; rationalisation, business-led organisation; T11 redundancy; Transmark; consultancy; T12 family ; opportunities in BR; T13 BR management; international role; G. Rutter T14 family; railway background, getting a job; T15 railway welfare; T16 Gloucester Control Office, 1940; T17 education, starting work; T18 junior clerk, Cheltenham Lansdown Station, conditions, night turn; T19 travel to work; Cheltenham traffic; T20 Cheltenham; National Service; T21-22 National Service, 1952; ambitions; T23 Control Office, Eastgate Station, responsibilities; T24 derailment; T25 1955 ASLEF Engineman's Strike; driver without route knowledge; T26 route knowledge; Controller duties; T27 duties; Birmingham Snow Hill Control; stolen locomotive; T29 stolen locomotive; T30 lodgings, 1950; Western Region HQ, Freight Train Office, 1961, conditions, pay; T31 FTO work; Head Office; Freight Train Planning ; marriage; 1960s, oil traffic; T33 housing; Regional HQ, Swindon, 1983; promotion; T34 control of FTP; business customers, Esso; T35 oil distribution terminals; planning freight; quality; T36 road freight; strikes; T37 road freight; T38 family; reorganisation, Head of FTP (WR), 1983; T39 role; 1984-85 NUM Strike; T40-41 sectorisation; redundancy; T42 family; T43-44 Transmark, NRM; End