probationer clerk; clerk +2 levels of promotion; MS5; assistant director; duties of clerk conditions of pay; staff section, histories, footplate staff disciplinary procedure; record management; commercial department, broaden experience, goods and passenger stations; control; footplate bous; time sheets, graphs, mechanised systems; train timings, East Coast Main Line (ECML); pegasus computer; progressive computerisation; national traffic data; scientific principles applied to freight operations; movements and development section; implementation of Total Operations Processing System (TOPS), Theodore Strong, David Bowick, James Urquhart; Bob Arnot; transponder system; union problems; view on railways late application of freight system; fleet reduction; data processing merge; rationalisation; d.o.b. 1933-02-12, railway work 1949-1990, Hull; Hessle Road; Dairycoats; Springhead; Doncaster; Scarborough; Dringhouses Yard; Leeds; Great Northern House, London; Darlington; Marylebone; Carlifornia; Cornwall; Premier Oil & Soap & Co; Avery Scales; Needlers; Fenners; British Railways Board; IBM; British Rail (BR);