Bridges, L.W.A. (Larry)

Made:
2003-01-31 in Interviewee's home

junior clerk, sundries division; guard; relief supervisor; traffic manager; line manager; pannier tank; entrance exam; invoicing; move from rail to road; Advanced Traffic Information (ATI) shunting; treatment of staff; Total Operation Processing System (TOPS); militancy; resistance to change; management training; shunting, "off the road"; steel strike; depot closed; redundancy; fatality; booking office; coal marshalling; mail; newspapers; train crew; reorganisation; staff rapport; privatisation; reorganisation; timber by rail; reductions in level crossings; improvements of infrastructure; political and financial issues; local management; d.o.b. 1952-09-16, railway work 1968-active staff at date of Interview. Birmingham New Street; Aston Goods; Winson Green; Moor Street; Saltley; Washwood Heath; Great Bridge Steel terminal; Cashmore Sidings; Coventry; Rugby Leamington; Isle of Wight; Three Spires Marshalling Yard; Llwyngwril; Freightliner; National Carriers; Cambrian Coast Express;

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2003-34
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
: 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.; 80 x 72 x 8 mm
type:
oral history recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum