Bratton, William, (Bill)

Made:
2003-02-19 in Interviewee's home

clerk, booking, goods, reservation; travel centre shift manager; medical and written exams; starting work at 15; Edmonson ticket system; banking cash; discipline; blank cards; paybills; drawing cash, making up & issue of pay packets; pigeon traffic; signalling exam; sleeper reservations; D2 T1-7 seat reservation; demolition; AEG Multiprinter; IATA licence; car ferry; Golden Rail, Motorail, tickets; takings; credit cards, virtues/drawbacks; All Purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); reorganisation; merging of reservations and booking; interchangeable staff; security alerts; d.o.b. 1939-05-03, railway career 1954-1995, Barford North; Kimberley; Euston Old Station, New Station;

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2003-19
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
: 2.8346 x 3.1496 x .315 in.; 72 x 80 x 8 mm
type:
oral history recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum