Townsley, Donald Holford

Made:
2000-12-18 in Leeds

engineering design; locomotive development and manufacture; rolling stock and special vehicles for main line, mine and factory railways worldwide; childhood; apprentice draughtsman, Hunslet Engine Company; design draughtsman; track machines; Tyne & Wear Metro; locomotive testing; review of UK rolling stock; Docklands Light Railway; rebuilding ex-BR locomotives; Royal Mail electric multiple units; Rosco; Tesco; LUL "slim line" ticket gate; new train fleet, LTS rail franchise; BR workshops; d.o.b. 1933-04-22, railway work 1943-1990s, Leeds; British Rail; Brush Traction;

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2001-06
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
overall: 80 x 72 x 8 mm
type:
recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum