apprentice; shift, diesel fitter; deputy chargehand; work study practitioner; motive power assistant; engineer for planning and investment; commissioning engineer; area manager; retail manager; project manager; railwaymen, community; apprentice training; running shed, conditions; City and Guilds; restoration, special trains; driving; closures, redundancies; Clayton diesels; class 40, water pick up, steam heating; great train robbery; staff manipulating; freight traffic decline; budgetery; industrial relations; NEBSS certificate; electrification; derailment, German re-railing equipment, explosives train; lamp changing; improvements; quality; Advanced Passenger Train (APT), 1st run; aircraft engineers, relations, railwaymen; tilt failure, prime minister, report, adverse publicity; discipline; redundant signalmen; collision; standards; re-enactment 1894 opening; vocational qualifications; restructuring conditions; negociation; privatisation; pay conditions; trade unions; d.o.b. 1942-09-24, railway work 1958-1996, Ballachulish; Oban; Dawsholm; Haymarket; St. Rollox; Polmadie Motive Power depot (MPD); Yoker depot; Eastfield depot; Shields Electric depot; Darlington; Motherwell; West Coast Main Line (WCML); Carstairs; Barncluith Tunnel; Carnforth; London; Penrith; Glasgow; Abington; Rugby; Preston; Bellgrove; Milgavie branch; British Rail; Derby Research; Jordan hill Teacher Training College; Rutherglen Training School; Glasgow North Suburban and West Highland Lines; West Highland Line; Railway Industry Training Council; Railtrack; Scottish Qualification Authority; Scotrail;