David Kirby

Made:
2002-11-02 in Woking
maker:
Gordon Charles Pettitt

Southern Region Management Trainee; 23 years in Port Management and Shipping Services; 1982 General Manager, Southern Region of BR; Director, London and South East; 1985 Joint Managing Director, British Railways Board; train ferry schedules; train ferries; Pooling arrangements with SNCF; Roll on Roll off ships; formation of Sealink; developing Sector Management; rolling stock utilisation; opening of Snow Hill Tunnel; British Railways Board meetings; relationships with the Department of Transport; Channel Tunnel negotiations; Anglo French Treaty; briefing Margaret Thatcher at Downing Street; d.o.b 1933-05-12, Railway work October 1954 to January 1990. British Rail Headquarters, Euston; Waterloo;

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2003-39
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
overall: 72 x 80 x 8 mm
type:
recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum