Beeching; management trainee; school trains; BT Police; area manager; electrification; freight marketing, steel, iron ore; reorganisation of coal traffic, industrial action 1984-1985; Speedlink Coal; Light Rail negotiations; BR safety panel; privatisation; track access agreements; freight companies; personal assistant to Bob Reid (1); chief officers; passengers' charter; Peter Parker; costs; revenue; Provincial Railways; effect on family life; d.o.b. 1947-07-29, railway work: 1970-1998, Railtrack; Bridgeton Central; Partickhill; Dumbarton; Glasgow; Bellgrove; Grantham; East Coast Main Line; Cardiff, South Wales; British Rail Headquarters; Manchester Piccadilly; Nottingham; Settle-Carlisle line; USA; Shrubsole, Martin Richard
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Nick Alexander; work culture and relationships; memories of individuals; marshalling yards; changes in the railway industry; engineer; management grades; British Rail; Dr Beeching; Sheffield; Temple Mills; Ripple Lane; Whitemoor; Derby; Hull; Goodmayes; Tinsley; Marylebone Alexander, Nick
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Ken Bird; childhood; family life; sport; railway clubs; BRSA; pubs/drinking; work culture and relationships; conditions at work; depots; marshalling yards; changes in the railway industry; unions; signalman; British Rail; privatisation; ethnic minorities; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Stratford; Cudworth; Barnsley; Crofton; Wakefield; York; Healey Mills; Southend; London; Tilbury; Teeside; Yarm; Liverpool Street; West Ham; Fenchurch Street Bird, Ken
locomotive depot, cleaner, passed fireman, fireman, driver; instructor, driver, first aid; rules and regulations; "preparation and disposal"; cleaning materials; shifts; training; rule 55; wages; fire bars; boiler cleaning; hard/soft water areas; footplatemen, light duties; running tender first; shunt; fusible plug; cab fittings; clock box; pressure; links; coupling duties; terms of employment; compound; numbering; engine board; Ivatt; 2-6-4 BR standard; Midland 4F; career opportunities; traffic; shifts; union activities; first aid; introduction, diesels; loco failures; Beeching; Brush locos; drawbar; brake tenders; footplate, signing on, drivers lobby; engine diagram; loco checks; sand boxes; turntables; turbine generator; Black 5; Park Royal railcars; 1957 manning agreement; depot organisation; electrification; light signals; Automatic Train Control (ATC); Sir Peter Parker; third rail, Midland main Line; blue pullman; Overhead Line Electrification (OHLE); road learning process, saloon; corridor locomotives; mixed steam and diesel operations; restructuring of working conditions; 1954 pension scheme; closures; incident at Cricklewood; d.o.b. 1933-10-25, railway work: 1950-1998, 15D shed Bedford Midland; Oakley; Hitchin; London; Bedford St John; Egypt; Leicester; Spital bridge (Peterborough); Kettering; Arnley tunnel; Stratford; Brighton; Lees; Gloucester; London, Docks, King's Cross, St Pancras; Sandy; Birmingham. Nuneaton; Hinksey; Southampton; Yarmouth; Derby, St Mary; Bute Street; Dunstable; Hansworth; Wellingborough; Mill Hill; Cambridge Street Loco Siding; Nottingham; Park Royal; Moorgate branch; St Albans; Luton Bute street; Oakley troughs; Sharnbrook; Tilbury; Southend; St Paul's; Sevenoaks/Selhurst/Brighton;Farringdon; Croydon; Brent; Blackfriars; London North Western Railway (LNWR); Rolls Royce; City ThamesLink; Gibbs, John
booking office; Beeching closures; management training; different goods traffic; assistant yard master; weather, snow; exhibition train; passenger marketing; tours manager; divisional passenger manager; investment; branch closures; divisional freight manager; sectorisation; marketing (construction); resources; Speedlink; Freightliner director; automotive traffic; Channel Tunnel; d.o.b. 1944-09-23, railway work: 1966-1995, (booking office work pre-1966), Rank Xerox; TraineX; Breakaway; Stardust; SAGA; Speedlink; Freightliner; SNCF, Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais; Rover; Fiat; Ford; Birmingham New Street; Manchester Piccadilly; Miles Platting; Eastern Europe; Swindon; London; Woking College; Doncaster; Skegness; Hull; Cleethorpes; Newark; Humber Bridge; New Holland; Spalding-March; Peterborough; Great Yarmouth; Nottingham; Melton Mowbray; Peak District; Longbridge; Channel Tunnel; Milan; Spain; Moseley, Robert James Stanley (Bob)
machine operator; riveter; technical college, lathe operation and tool making; wheel shop, war work on shells; machining bands to correct gauge; shift patterns; meal breaks; first experience of mixed work force; transfer form machine shop, frame shop; lack of protective clothing; problems with blackout; description of riviting work; bench work; privitisation of works, change in standards; method of payment; intensity of job; d.o.b. 1925-05-19, railway work: 1942-1948, Wolverton; Stony Stratford; Coventry; Blackpool; Wolverton Works; Pateman, Marjorie
permanent way length gang; ganger; Beeching closures; work study and bonus assessment; fencing and tree clearance on permanent way; d.o.b. 1927-10-09, railway work c.1939-1993, Bude; Redhill; Salfords; Hester, Dennis
graduate management trainee; assistant area manager; personal assistant to chief executive; marketing manager; graduate recruitment manager; communications officer, UIC; business development director, parcels; head of international policy; Advanced Passenger Train (APT) project; freight; shipping; traffic forecasts; international links; containers; management training centre; women employees; customer service; UIC; parcels; Post Office traffic; international policy; d.o.b. 1948-05-03, railway work: 1970-1999, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer; British Leyland; Red Star; Cadbury; Windsor; Birmingham; Longbridge; Coventry; Redditch; Liverpool; The Grove, Watford; Paris; Willesden; Brussels; Halvorsen, Trevor
messenger; signal lad; porter/signalman; small station work; clerk; relief clerk; chief clerk; APTIS; ticketing; trade union; railway pension; conditions; d.o.b. 1923-10-17, railway work c.1938-1988, Guildford; London; Twickenham; Tierney, Ray
stores clerk; data input clerk; wages clerk; First Aid; railway town; social activities; d.o.b. 1932-05-13, railway work: 1960-1986, Swindon Works; Tennant, Eunice
clerk; management trainee; cattle feed; passenger excursions; Commercial Investigation Bureau; freight depot management; work conditions; trade unions; warehousing, National Carriers; d.o.b. 1931-11-13, railway work 1948-1968 (British Rail), 1968-1991 (National Carriers), Preston; Kendal Goods; Barrow; Rugby; Finsbury Park; London Euston; Old Ford; Hemel Hempstead; Watford; Broad Street; Smithfield market; Helm, William