soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 4; problems with managing projects; Ken Davies; national standards replacing regional ones; point heaters policy, problems; carriage servicing depot; East Coast Main Line (ECML), best returns; replacement of locomotive hauled trains with High Speed Trains (HST); Nicholas Ridley; hostile civil service attitudes; planning possessions for electrification, clearance over bridges; other novel solution; unidentifies cables; business sectors unwilling to share costs; Clapham accident; signal installers, retraining; Ian Campbell; class 89; mark 3 carriage; new trains project manager; mark 4 carriages; West Coast Main Line (WCML); Driving Van Trailer (DVT); Union Internationale des Chemin de Fer (UIC); remote control; class 91, based on Advanced Passenger Train (APT); problems with carriage door controls, invertors, air conditioning toilets, John Prescott; locomotive problems; software problems; d.o.b. 1939-10, railway work: 1961-1996, Clifton service depot; St Margarets Edinburgh; Gerlderd Road bridge; York; Newcastle; Clapham; Inverness; Exeter; British Railways Board (BRB); Midland Main Line; Abbots Ripton; InterCity;