Harry March interviewed by Robert Aitchison

Oral history interview with Harry March conducted and recorded by Robert Aitchison on 31 March 2004, as part of the Time Track oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds. Born in 1946 in Shildon; early life; Shildon drift mine; Shildon railway works; wagon repair; overhead cranes; high-capacity wagon building; ballast wagons; Shildon works decline and closure; politics of closure; Beeching Plan; Darlington North Road closure; removal of railway lines; working conditions and injuries; draw bar production; buck eye production; 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary; Locomotion Museum; Timothy Hackworth; sports teams; coal from pits to Shildon railway works; health and safety; injuries; railway family.

Time Tracks, Shildon Railway Village Community Project was an initiative funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund that encouraged members of the public to bring photographs and documents at Locomotion to form a community archive, when Locomotion museum was opened in Shildon, 2004. Over 50 oral history interviews were also recorded with members of the community. They shared their memories of Shildon as they knew it in their childhood and throughout their lives, from as early as the 1920s, as well as their work experiences in local factories and industries, including Shildon railway works.