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
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
office boy; works apprentice; coppersmith; copper and steel pipes; Second World War; welding; conditions, shifts, pay, safety equipment; evening classes; women workers; locomotive construction; locomotive repairs; locomotive naming; safety, fumes, asthma; diesel locomotives, skills demarcation; locomotive construction templates; camping coaches;disabled access to coaches; d.o.b. 1924-08-12, railway work: 1940-1986 Bullock, Reginald J. (Reg)
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)
apprenticeship, body finishing; coach building; working conditions; glazing; workmanship; demarcation; royal saloons; welfare facilities; paint; asbestos; pride; attitudes; British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment (BRUTE); vans; diesel multiple units; works closure; d.o.b. 1930-02-01, railway work: 1944-c.1962, railway work: c.1974-1987, Great Western Railway; British Rail Engineering Ltd; Swindon Works; Plymouth; London Paddington; Swindon carriage and wagon works; Swindon locomotive works; Malmesbury; Blackford, Royston (Roy)
paybill clerk; mechanisation; computers; wages clerk; audit; work study; decimalisation; pensions; national systems; accountancy; Sealink; BT advertising; Property Board; personnel; attitudes to change; d.o.b. 1923-09-17, railway work: 1940-1982, Great Western Railway; Machynlleth; Swindon locomotive works; BR headquarters; Darlington; Stevenage; James, Harold Sidney
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; railway community; work culture and relationships; memories of individuals; working on steam; working on diesel; change from steam to diesel; depots; works; changes in the railway industry; fireman and driver training; engineer; management grades; British Rail; 1950s; 1960s; the Queen; Stratford; Shenfield; Parkeston; Colchester; Braintree; Chelmsford; Brentwood; Romford; Ilford; Chingford; Enfield; Epping Ongar; Liverpool Street; Finsbury Park; Whitemoor; Cambridge; Norwich; Bethnal Green Hardy, Richard
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Carolyn Griffiths; work culture and relationships; conditions at work; canteens; open days; depots; management grades; British Rail; 1970s; 1980s; Strafford; Birmingham; Watford; York; Doncaster; Derby; Cardiff; Paddington; Walthamstowe; Leytonstone Griffiths, Carolyn
engine cleaner; fireman; Second World War; sweeper up; Swindon Works, foundry, wagon shop; guard; shunter; local departmental committee; freight; sectional council; Sprinter trains; trade union; councillor; railway town; railway housing; nationalisation; dieselisation; safety systems; lodging; social impact of railway work; wagons; TOPS; regional differences; ethnic and women staff; d.o.b. 1926-09-07, railway work: 1939-1990, Southern Region; Great Western Railway; Swindon; Cardiff; Horsham; Acton; Archer, Arthur
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