soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 2; Sundays measuring voids, study of track dynamics; general manager's office; electrification, 25Kv; new approach to project management; overcoming civil engineering dominance; unrealistic signal engineering project, credits for recoveries; copper stolen; influence of colleagues; submissions; professional project managers, 1968; senior posts given to private sector applicants; friction between departments; sponsor driven projects; politics of projects at national level; tunnel design problems; railwaymen socilalising; new railway in Iran; sir Bob Reid; d.o.b. 1939-10, railway work: 1961-1996, Euston; Oxley; New Street; Coventry; Leamington; Loughborough Chord; Manchester, Victoria, Piccadilly; St Peter's Church; British Rail Research; Eastern Region (ER); North Eastern Region (NER); South East Lancashire North East Cheshire (SELNEC); Tyneside PTE; London midland Region; Transmark; Iranian Railways;