Civil engineering graduate training; planning; divisional operating manager; director of studies; divisional manager; deputy and general manager; director of strategic studies; vice chairman British Railways Board (BRB);first high speed turn out 1957; Bob Eccles; subway replacement; chartered engineer; interview process; track blanketting paper; track buckle story; bonus schemes; development of mechanical maintenance; track conditions; measured shovel packing; trunk route study; Beeching/Dean; forward look study; Arthur Dean; responsibilities of divisional operating manager; resignalling; Queen of Scots, East Coast Main Line (ECML); staff college, range of duties, Margaret Thatcher; rationalisation; industry relations; working relations, shifts; management difficulties; background to appointment to director of stategic development; planing weakness; development of business; civil service, relationship, interference; privatisation; Serpell inquiry; Bob Reid, attitudes; Peter Parker; preparations for electrification; d.o.b. 1930-07-12, railway work 1957-1987, Leeds; Huddersfield; Standedge Tunnel; Dinsdale Works; Woking Staff College; Northallerton; Ripon; Sheffield; Barrow Hill;