Oral history interview with Christopher Gibb, conducted and recorded by Frank Paterson (session 1) at Network Rail Headquarters, Waterloo, London on 11 December 2018. Duration: 58 min. 49 sec. British Rail: Southern Region clerical posts; Management Trainee; Train Crew Supervisor Polmadie; Ayr Train Crew Manager; move to South Wales; 3 months secondment to Societe nationale des chemins de fer Francais (SNCF); Wales and Western Service Group Manager; Organising for Quality (OfQ); Theo Steel; staff transfer from regions; Class 158; rolling stock utilisation; sectorisation; separation of track from trains; conversion of business units to shadow companies; Connex; Prism; political relationships

One of over 150 oral history recordings made as part of the Britain’s Railways All Change (BRAC) archive project. BRAC was set-up to cover gaps in documenting the railway privatisation process in the United Kingdom, between 1994 and 1997, when the government-owned British Rail was dismantled into over 100 privately-owned companies. The interviews capture the recollections of people involved in the planning and implementation of the privatisation process, the management of change and running the railway during privatisation.