Oral history interview with John Edmonds, conducted and recorded by Frank Paterson at the interviewee's home in London on 31 October 2019. Duration: 58 min. 23 sec. Early career; freight studies; Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) contract; Sector Director Provincial; development of profit centre management data; creation of Anglia Region 1989; sectorisation; Organising for Quality (OfQ); integrating mechanical engineers; overhead line equipment (OLE); implementation of OfQ in Provincial; Richard Goldson; Bob Reid 2; Bob Horton; Railtrack non-executive relationships; setting-up Railtrack; relationships with Department of Transport; Chris Leah; Michael Holden; personal reflections; retirement

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.