Rushes / 18/09/2007 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Pressing the backend of Flying Scotsman's boiler at Pridhams boilermakers Tavistock, Devon, pressing the backend MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman's boiler backend, 2' 2007-09-17
Rushes / 05/08/2004 / Approaching Scarborough, at the turntable, departing Scarborough MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman' 2004-08-04
Rushes / 08/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Including shots of the site internal plus external exhibits, and visitors, shunting King Feisal outside the collections building MiniDV Rushes 'Locomotion, August 2005' 2005-07-31
Rushes / 10/10/2003 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Erecting the steelwork, the collections building MiniDV Rushes 'Shildon, Locomotion construction, 3' 2003-10-09
Rushes / 08/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Including shots of the site internal and external exhibits and visitors shunting King Feisal outside the collections building MiniDV Rushes 'Locomotion, August 2005' 2005-07-31
Rushes / 31/08/2004 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Scarborough to York, window views, Flying Scotsman passes Howsham gates MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman' 2004-08-30
Rushes / 19/07/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Scarborough station Class 58's, platform scenes, on train Alan Pegler, boys birthday party, shop York station MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman to Scarborough' 2005-07-18
Rushes / 27/07/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Flying Scotsman at the Scarborough station turntable MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman July 2005' 2005-07-26
02-05/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Working on crown stays (15/02/2005), burning inside smoke box (10/02), Inside boiler (02/03), Cylinder boring (12/04), Cylinder boring (18/05) MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman 2004-2005' 2005-04-30
Rushes / 26/02/2009 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Interview with Dennis Hartley, WW2 (WWII; World War 2) wartime memories, working in movement control in the London docks, interviewed by Lynn Patrick MiniDV ' Dennis Hartley 2' 2009-02-26
Tape 7A / 09/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / RETB Inverness rushes / Steve Muirhead interview, Inverness Signal box RETB MiniDV ' RETB Inverness, 7A' 2006-08-31
Rushes / 26/02/2009 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Interview with Dennis Hartley, WW2 (WWII; World War 2) wartime memories, working in movement control in the London docks, interviewed by Lynn Patrick MiniDV 'Dennis Hartley 1' 2009-02-26
Tape 4A / 09/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / RETB Inverness rushes / Continuation of cab ride from Garve to Loch Carron MiniDV 'RETB Inverness, 4A' 2006-08-31
Oral history interview with Glynn Waite conducted and recorded by Bob Gwynne on 22 September 2017 at the National Railway Museum. Duration: 2 hours 9 minutes 25 seconds. [Start of interview, 00:00:00] Joining British Rail 1960, Trains Office Derby, diagramming, train staff planning, special trains; [00:04:30] area covered, freight timetable, Derby to Barnt Green, Hornsbridge at Chesterfield; Birmingham, freight traffic analysis, wagon surveys; changes, introduction of diesels working ‘out and home’; [00:09:00] line occupation surveys; diagramming journeys and staff; [00:10:30] different jobs before being involved with TOPS; TOPS at Cardiff, start with Ebbw Vale cutover, TOPS in South Wales; [00:16:43] problem with Cardiff Tidal/East Maws works; use of Ventek terminals, issues, wagon surveys, [00:20:49] missing wagons, ‘Cripple roads’, loading wagon data into TOPS; [00:24:32] TOPS survey staff, cutover process, working hours; [00:29:25] impact of TOPS on Area Managers, attempts at economies, TOPS helping reduce amount of wagons and introduce air braked wagons; [00:35:26] TOPS and locomotive maintenance on Western Region; [00:42:39]economies, elimination of consignment notes, survey, traffic flow introduction of numbers for clients, economies on clerks and paper; [00:47:47] goods offices rationalisation, reduction in sidings, new methods of working enabling savings; [00:49:30] job at Speedlink 1984-1990; [00:50:21] TOPS moving into privatisation, non geographic allocation of reporting offices; [00:54:40] planning redundancy but kept on to work out how to affect the move away from geographic location; [00:57:36] TOPS 2000 introduction, link with privatisation; division within privatised freight network, change to Windows operating system; [01:02:23] TOPS 2000 implementation, TOPS offices for BR mainline; TOPS responsibility area (TRA), capacity limits and rationalisation, Worcester TOPS office closure, further rationalisation; [01:07:08] reason for TOPS office locations, marshalling yards, reasons for rationalisation and TOPS staff redeployment; [01:11:47] TOPS clerks, recruitment and grades; [01:14:40] Freightliner, coal/cement, links to TOPS; difference between TRUST and TOPS; [01:17:01] TRUST and LARTA, geolocated train departures; how to put in a new location [01:21:50] locations for companies; wagon load, marshalling yards, train loads rather than individual wagons; [01:25:07] merry-go-round system (MGR), automation, including wagon numbers and weights, MGR wagons kept in trains; Toton, only two roads on down-side, wagon weight limitation at some collieries, MGR wagons revolution; [01:30:17] TOPS 2000, more people understand the system, area managers and shunters can input TOPS; TOPS direct (Eric Straw), Wolverhampton Steel Terminal, training on using TOPS, including Masboro Control; [01:35:10] EWS move; cut over Swansea Borough, Newport 1974, returned 20 years later to cutover to shunters; removal of Rowntrees traffic, closure of Dringhouses yard, closing yards, Parkeston; reflection on railways during time of career, sectorisation hierarchy, Bury St Edmonds example, Peterborough-Grantham, division of payments in pre-privatisation era; [01:43:04] sectorisation process, new thinking, cost of running railway has increased, GNER causes wage inflation with drivers, causing train cancellations elsewhere;[01:49:02] career overview, lodging at Railway Hostel, Loco hostels, redundancy, WR change, traffic analysis, Rowsley, Derby, Crewe, Nantwich, Bridgend, Sheffield, TOPS implementation, Speedlink, RFD, Manchester, Islington; EWS attempts to replace TOPS; Freightliner poached Glynn from EWS with traffic; [02:01:20] work as a consultant sorting out new freight flows, sectorisation, end of Speedlink, lack of knowledge; Michael Portillo, every freight flow had to make 8.5% return on assets; [02:06:50], privatisation, increasing distance of freight flows [02:09:25] [end of interview] Glynn Waite interviewed by Bob Gwynne 2017-09-18
Oral history interview with Margaret Willmot conducted and recorded by Dr Jonathan Aylen on 8 December 2016. Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 28 seconds. The interview focuses on Margaret Willmot’s experience as a junior programmer on TOPS (Total Operations Processing System) at British Rail. Start of railway career, TOPS (Total Operations Processing System), education, computing degree, job application; [00:03:23] British Rail induction, COBOL programming language, computing people vs railway people career approach; BR computer centres, machine types; work on TOPS at Blandford House, gender stereotypes, work on TOPSTRANS; [00:07:30] programming language in TOPSTRANS, assembler based macro language, how it worked, [00:14:23], computer core memory, data storage on magnetic tapes; TOPS customed built equipment, operating system; [00:18:30] disc drives vs tape drives, online vs offline processing; [00:20:00] TOPS wagons team, coding applications related to wagons, how coding was done, equipment used, punch cards, tele-type, team reaction to online machine, typing cards, programmers and typists, typing error example; [00:23:35] writing new enquiry for commodity code, modifying existing code, American code vs British Rail code, STANOX, TOPS Responsibility Areas (TRA), end of punch cards; [00:26:05] ventek cards 96 columns punch cards vs 80 column cards, no use of paper tape on TOPS; [00:29:51] enquiry for commodity code, security in TOPS; safety, preventative maintenance of wagons in TOPS, ‘cripples’ wagon; [00:32:20] TOPS wagon team, colleagues, organisation, way of working, hard coding, complexity of wagon movements in Scunthorpe area; [00:36:05] modification to original American TOPS for use by British Rail, example of obsolete codes for United Kingdom application; TOPS telecommunication, BR private phone lines; [00:41:10] British Rail choosing IBM over ICL; training on TOPSTRANS by Southern Pacific, relationship with Americans, helping with issues, BR staff visits to USA; interviewer discussing origin of TOPS; [00:46:20] example of computer crashing with application programme, technical issues and requirement, human errors rather than programme errors, example of issues with wagons, missing wagons, numbers painted on wagons; wagon audited against TOPS data; [00:55:00] working hours, office based work, junior position, reflections on experience on TOPS, camaraderie in TOPS team, TOPS experience useful in next job, if TOPS is still in use; date formatting in TOPS, space saving format; [00:59:30] leaving TOPS and British Railway, career after TOPS, San Francisco based computing company, revenue system for Eurotunnel; [01:01:00] further reflection on experience on TOPS [01:02:28] [end of interview] Margaret Willmot interviewed by Jonathan Aylen 2016-12-08
Oral history interview with David Thomas conducted and recorded by Matthew Hick on 17 July 2012, at the National Railway Museum. Duration: 1 hour. Background; starting as a volunteer, campaigning for York as NRM site, site requirements, museum opening 1975; Friends of the National Railway Museum (FNRM) group established, Lord Downs, member of Stephenson Locomotive Society, joined FNRM; [00:03:40] FNRM details, membership, presence at NRM, how volunteering began; DT stopped volunteering early 1980s due to work pressures [00:06:10] maintaining contact with FNRM; stewarding trains, examples, organising York Evening Meetings (1994), York FNRM Evening Meetings, details, numbers, benefits to FNRM; [00:09:00] volunteer recruitment; end of 1990’s, volunteer recruitment and training co-ordinator (autumn 2000), information points and miniature railway volunteers, Claire Evans, background in training and recruitment, detail, job satisfaction; [00:15:50] other aspects of volunteer recruitment; formation of millennium volunteers in York, opportunities to get younger volunteers, reservations, failures, developing records, IT development, volunteer database development; [00:22:10] volunteer management; volunteer manager (Kate Wadden) appointed (2002), coming to terms with having a manager, success at working together, volunteer manager success across museums in the group, continued when Matt Thompson appointed, links with other volunteer officers, job satisfaction continued; [00:27:00] volunteering development; Railfest 2004, Matt Hick impact; [00:29:00] what drove the first volunteer push; concern to move volunteer recruitment quickly, contributory factors in helping recruitment; [00:32:30] why NRM increased volunteer numbers, recordkeeping on volunteers, value of volunteers; reasons for recruiting more miniature railway volunteers, not enough drivers, recruited 10; [00:34:10] driver training provided by Director of Engineering Richard Gibbon; [00:35:00] Back of House teams; Tuesday night team managed by Rich Gibbon, changed when Richard Gibbon retired; [00:36:50] highlights whilst a volunteer co-ordinator; satisfaction of people who were recruited and stayed, some still at NRM; [00:38:00] changes in volunteer recruitment, applicants with “their own agendas”, now recruit against a job description, applicants with impediments, improving inclusivity in recruiting volunteers, turning down applicants, dealing with difficult cases, museum needs to “get what it needs”; [00:43:00] roles at NRM; would have liked to have been involved in locomotive support, linked to family history, role carried out like in professional career with British Telecom (BT); [00:45:00] last 12 years; enjoyment, good support, enjoyed working with Claire Evans; shock of having a manager; Railfest 2004, challenges managing volunteers, keeping up with changes; [00:48:00] change in relationships between staff and volunteers; more co-operation and co-ordination, closer links with learning team; [00:49:50] change in relationship between the volunteers and FNRM; [00:51:00] Why NRM appointed a Volunteer Manager (Kate Waddon); DT volunteers 1 day per week and for FOH volunteers, appointment to cover whole spectrum of volunteering, volunteering in better shape now, very positive development; [00:53:00] reflections on own volunteering experience, no disappointment overall, found it difficult in 1 day per week role, keeping pace with what is happening; [00:55:50] how family views his volunteer endeavours; [00:56:20] aspirations for future volunteer programme; get people that the museum needs, questioning impact of economic crisis on future of volunteering [00:59:36] [end of interview] David Thomas interviewed by Matthew Hick 2014-10-13
Oral history interview with Bob Cannings conducted and recorded by Chris Kinchin-Smith on 22 November 2019, at the interviewee’s home. Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes. Summary TBC Bob Cannings interviewed by Chris Kinchin-Smith 2019-11-22
Oral history interview with Wilfred Owen Fripp conducted and recorded by Colin Divall on 9 January 2013, at the Priest's House Museum, Wimborne, Dorset, in presence of one of the trustees of the Priest’s House Museum. Duration: 42 minutes. Summary TBC Owen Fripp interviewed by Colin Divall 2013-01-09
Oral history interview with Gwen Divall conducted and recorded by Colin Divall on 13 April 2006, in Swilland, Suffolk. The interviewee is the interviewer’s mother. This is the second and last session of the interview. Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes. Summary TBC Gwen Divall interviewed by Colin Divall (session 2 of 2) 2006-04-13
Oral history interview with John Charlesworth conducted and recorded by Tony Steadman on 24 February 2015, in the mess room of the Miniature Railway team at the National Railway Museum. Duration: 34 minutes. How he was introduced to railways; volunteering at Middleton Railway; member of the Friends of the National Railway Museum (FNRM), joined in 1977 on information points; rigidity of staff at museum; 1985 helped with work on Tuesday night restoring the Duchess of Hamilton locomotive (DOH); [00:05:00] career, worked on maintenance at power stations, hot riveting and air drills, lived in Selby; 1988 footplate ride on Green Arrow; support crew on DOH on main line; [00:10:00] miniature railway and working with public, Richard Gibbon, increased numbers, driver training for miniature railway, started charging, change, replacement of tracks; [00:15:00] miniature railway originally thought of as a toy, changed when charges came in; Deltic introduced on miniature railway, run round; 2014 rebuild; volunteer age differences; [00:20:00] recruitment of new drivers; outside examiners; everyone a driver; difficult passengers; [00:25:00] cataloguing with John Peck; drawing of accident; preparing standard gauge locomotives; fireman during day; [00:30:00] not so much to do at present, commenting on open spaces in Station Hall; believes there is potential for more volunteer involvement; enjoyed volunteering [ 00:34:14] [end of interview] John Charlesworth interviewed by Tony Steadman 2015-02-24
Oral history interview with Don Collins conducted and recorded by Tony Steadman on 22 January 2015 at the interviewee’s home. Duration: 34 minutes. How he started volunteering at NRM, interest in railways, involvement with Friends of NRM (FNRM); Information Points, managed by Clare Evans; started volunteering in 1995; career as civil servant, worked at Chilwell, moved to York; [00:05:00] volunteer recruitment interview with Clare Evans, social aspects of volunteering; knowledge of railways; training with visitor experience courses; [00:10:00] evacuation instruction; miniature railway; training with Richard Gibbon; diesel hydraulic power; [00:15:00] difficult to start engine; took over roster; top and tail with two locomotives and two crew; very flexible volunteers; [00:20:00] new layout needed more drivers; started in 2015; [break in recording] trained as a guard; passed stricter exams for guarding; [00:25:00] Volunteer Awards event at Christmas; relationship with explainers, not so much affinity now due to their change in role; [00:30:00] help from staff in early days; not so much now; 20 years a volunteer; change in ways volunteers are managed, supervised, now use team leaders [00:34:12] [end of interview] Don Collins interviewed by Tony Steadman 2015-01-22
Produced by NRM, for display at the Vintage Carriage Trust Museum, circa 1999 CD 'Echoes in the Valley' 1999
Edited master. A Quanta production for the National Railway Museum, using archive material from: Huntley Archives, British Movietone news, Jeremy English, Alan Garroway and W.A. Camwell. 30/06/1995. Made for display, interpretation for the Royal trains exhibit. Betacam SP videotape 'The Royal Road' 1995-06-30
Session tape. National Railway Museum, Treasure from the deep, Wreck of Thomas ; 22/05/2002 ; Eddie Affleck ; Source Microphone ; Chris Ford and Chris Cade acting "Wreck of Thomas" ; Stereo DAT digital audio tape 'Treasures from the deep - Platform 4' 2002-05-22
Video recording of events that took place at NRM in 2007 DVCAM digital videotape 'CBJWT Yorkshire Wheel, A day out with Thomas' 2007
Video for bid to the National Heritage lottery fund for Shildon Locomotion project DVCAM digital videotape 'Shildon lottery bid
November 2002 ; Printed label ; Handwritten post-it note: All BRB videos, do not remove VHS videotape 'A moving story'
3 min ; 24/01/2005 ; Caption "Ride the legend" cannot read further DVD-R 'Flying Scotsman temporary exhibition' 2005
2 tapes ; Shinkansen 7 and Shinkansen 8 on yellow label ; DUB from Dvcam ; Filmed by Chris Hogg Betacam SP videotape 'Shinkansen Arriving in National Railway Museum 2001-06-24
Edited master. Audio unmixed. High band SP U-Matic videotape 'Carrying the Freight 1952 + Horse Drawn Railway (Permanent Way)'
Sound recordings of Duchess of Hamilton cab, recorded by National Railway Museum in 1990. Content: 1. Blowing down the inspection glass, 2. Raking fire, showvelling coal, 3. Steam brakes, 4. Safety valve and general cab sounds, 5. Injector exhaust steam, 6. Injector live steam, 7. General cab sounds, shovelling coal, conversation, 8. loco starting stopping reversing etc., 9. steam CD 'Duchess of Hamilton Cab recordings 1990' 1990
Session tape. June 1999 ; Tracks details inside case ; 15 ips, 6 tracks + timecode on track 8 ; Soundtrack for video ; Music, Seaside special, Industry on the move, export drive; Archives series Volume 5, 1940s-1950s, KPM Music, KPM 223CD Magnetic audio tape 1/2" 'Railway workers, Railway freight' 1999
BBC broadcast programme recorded on videotape 'Timewatch: Rocket and its Rivals'. Broadcast on BBC 2, 24 January 2003. Including scenes shot at the National Railway Museum VHS videotape 'Timewatch: Rocket and its Rival' 2003-01-24
Various TV coverage of flash at National Railway Museum; Low band U-Matic videotape 'TV coverage of nuclear flash at National Railway Museum'
Footplate for National Railway Museum, filmed and narrated by Alan Whitehouse, 10/09/2004, driver Albert Seymour, Fireman Robin Huncox ; Approximately 3-4 minutes ; BBC Leeds (frame at beginning of tape), Flying Scotsman on East Coast Main line, journey on the footplate commented by BBC reporter Alan Whitehouse Betacam SP videotape 'Flying Scotsman'
Original master. Tracks details inside case ; 4 tracks Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Various sound effects'
Edwardian Christmas Festival at the National Railway Museum Betacam SP videotape 'Edwardian Christmas No.2' 1994-2004
Digitised 16mm films, Railway Roundabout films, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. Tapes 1 to 11 DVCPRO digital videotape 'Adams & Whitehouse'
Session tape. Lucy Inclination Announcements DAT digital audio tape 'Announcements National Railway Museum- Inclination'
Sound effect for Royal trains exhibition area at the National Railway Museum, created by NRM, circa 2000s. CD contains 2 tracks. Master disc. CD 'Royal Trains sound effects' 2000
36 min ; Online edit in 4x screen composition ; Copyright Simple Production Ltd DVD-R 'Main projection of journey, National Railway MuseumFlying Scotsman' 2006-01-26
36 min ; Offline edit 01 in 4x screen ; 02/12/2005 ; Copyright Simple Production Ltd DVD-R 'Main projection of journey, National Railway MuseumFlying Scotsman' 2005-12-02