cleaner; past cleaner; fireman; driver; locomotive types; late 1930s; second world war; working in the blitz; promotion; passenger and freight links; newspaper, special traffic; working with steam; lodging; diesel traction; closed lines, taking up the track; driver training; mutual improvement classes; electric traction; incidents, overhead wires; neutral sections; coal trains; Beyer-Garratt; steam; d.o.b. 1918-05, railway work: 1937-1983, Scottish depots; Bury Motive Power Depot; Northampton; Derby Railway School; Toton;