Audio cassette, Mr W.J. Best, Mr. F.R. Lodge, Mr E. Childs of Holloway White Allom Ltd interviewed by Mr A. G. Self 1977-09-09
Born October 1929 in Kings Lynn; memories of school in Kings Lynn; works at Patrick and Thompson's sawmill; joins Navy on call up; starts at South Lynn Locomotive Depot week before Christmas 1948; cleaning an engine described; disposal of engine described; South Lynn Shed described; firing and driving steam locomotives; promoted to Fireman in August 1956; description of route Melton Constable to Fakenham;1955 ASLE&F Strike; rates of pay for cleaners, labourers and firemen; coal traffic from Colwick to Norwich; description of line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach; Royal Trains to Sandringham; Massingham Fuel depot; Local Departmental Committee; closure of South Lynn on 28 February 1959; duties as bus conductor; joins Post Office; situation of M&GN after closure; last train; origins of M&GN Circle; election as President 1999-2000; d.o.b. 1929-10-05., Railway work December 1948 to 1959. South Lynn; Peterborough (North); Sutton Bridge; Wisbech; Swaffham; Thetford; Melton Constable; Fakenham; Colwick; Norwich; Yarmouth (Beach); Spalding; March; Whitemoor; Massingham; West Raynham; 1955 rail strike; Disability Link; M & GN closure; B12; "Claud"; M & GN Circle; Raymond Bullock 2002-10-16;2002-10-30;2002-11-06;2002-11-20;2002-12-11;
Served 4 year apprenticeship as a bricklayer with Henry Boot and Son; joined LNER as a bricklayer in 1939 and worked in this trade throughout his career as a tradesman, chargehand andfrom time to time as a supervisor in the Sheffield area; Army service 1942 to 1946;clearing River culverts under Sheffield Station; work on buildings, Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield, Wicker Arch, Neepsend Locomotive Shed; Aerocem pointing in Tunnels; colliery subsidence; reminiscences of Bosses, Albert Johnson, Brian Davis. Linley, William Henry 2001-05-31
Born in 1932 at Wood Green, London; memories of Blitz; interest in Railways; joins Land Registry at Lincolns Inn; joins Works Maintenace Section of Chief Civil Engineer's Office at Kings Cross in 1952; workings of Drawing Office; Special Trains, last Ivatt Atlantic and Henry Oakley; transfer to District Engineer's Office at Kings Cross; Coaling Plants and Water Troughs; Examination of tunnels; services on the Kings Cross District; Resident Engineer for construction of new bridge at Langley; joins Permanent Way section and Electrification team; transfer to Stratford; life at Stratford; supervision of electrification between Stratford and Cheshunt via Tottenham Hale; stabilisation of bank slips; promotion to Kings Cross and the Great Northern Electrification scheme; Resident Engineer for Kings Cross to Wood Green ;rail lubrication; rail grinding and re-profiling; Network South East at Liverpool Street; Railtrack Southern Zone at Waterloo and the Plan Arch; retention of records; establishing structure for monitoring contractors; contribution on Ultra Sonic work and welding; d.o.b 1932.09.22, Railway work 1952 to 1994. Wood Green; Hornsey;East Side Offices, Kings Cross; Kings Cross Motive Power Depot; Langley Water Troughs; Finsbury Park; Gasworks Tunnel; Welwyn Garden City; Moorgate;Pondsbourne Tunnel; District Civil Engineer, Stratford; Liverpool Street; The Grove, Watford; Waterloo; May, Harvey 2002-12-13; 2003-01-10;2003-02-13;
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Ronald Kennedy; Flying Scotsman Kennedy, Ronald 2005-06-22
Digital transfer of audio cassette with the same title. Original recording by John Jameson, likely in his own home, in 1984. John Jameson talks about his childhood in Manchester, in 1910s-1920s, as well as being a young teacher in a school located in the slum area of Manchester in the 1930s. He also talks about his own father (David Jameson), his career as a signalman for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, who was nearly deaf and almost caused incident in 1910s-1920s. Oral history recording with John Jameson 2016
Craft apprentice at Meols Cop car sheds, Southport; start date 1943-05-10; electrical fitter for 4 months; Drawing Office at Formby Power Station; Lancaster - Morecambe - Heysham; integration of power supplies on Mersey / Wirral railways; training at English Electric, Preston and Bradford; Assistant Electric Traction Engineer, North London; Stonebridge Park Power Station; Electric Traction Engineer, Manchester; Manchester -Bury, Manchester-Altrincham electric services; Woking Management Course 12; Electrification Engineer, Glasgow; Airdrie-Helensburgh services; South Clyde electrification; Law Junction Depot; Divisional Maintenance Engineer, London; Traction Maintenance Engineer, BR HQ; service problems working groups; Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, York; High Speed Trains; retired in 1983, returned to Southport; The Shaftesbury Society; Christian Faith and involvement with Church; visits to Nigeria and Brazil; involvement with Channel Tunnel; d.o.b 1928-01-25, Railway Service 1943 to 1983. Dick Kerr and Company; English Electric; Barclays, Kilmarnock; Meols Cop; Southport; Horwich Works; Formby Power Station; Manchester; Glasgow; Greenock; Wemyss Bay; Marylebone; Euston; Derby; York; Sourbut, John Alan 2005-01-27
management trainee; traffic assistant; assistant station manager; area operations manager; area manager; director; chief operations manager; managing director; John Pollard; training philosophy; effluent; derailmant of bo-plate wagon; abstraction of paraffin; black panther murders; parochial attitude of staff; royal family; politicians; thefts; hands on management; suicide; missed stop; flexible hours rostering; Lew Adams; staff reductions; blacklegs; immigrant workers, staff relations; industrial relations; Peter Rayner; Alec Bath; George Andrews; lighting strikes; spending rates; Bob Reid; D2 T1-12 influencing the future of railways; cost/benefit rationalisation; East Coast Mainline Line (ECML) electrification; members of parliament; sponsored airshow; Teddy Taylor; Theresa Gorman; senior officers mess, description; Gordon Pettitt; Colin McKeever; royal trains, sealed instructions; funerals, Queen Mother, Duke of Norfolk; president of India; Lady Susan Hussey; David Walker; Sussex Police, impressions; Paddy Ashdown, lobby for new trains; privatisation; plotting; Chris Green; training workshops; failed management buy out; d.o.b. 1951-03-25, railway work 1973-1996, Leeds; King's cross; Euston; Birmingham; Great Bridge; Dudley; Liverpool Street; Broxbourne; RTye House; Clacton; Southend; Pitsea; Stratford; Temple Mills; London Bridge; Charing Cross; Waterloo; Stanstead; London Midland Region; Freighliner; Anglia Region; Budweiser; South West Division; Gemini Consulting; Stagecoach; Network Southeast; Field, Peter James 2002-11-08
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 2; Sundays measuring voids, study of track dynamics; general manager's office; electrification, 25Kv; new approach to project management; overcoming civil engineering dominance; unrealistic signal engineering project, credits for recoveries; copper stolen; influence of colleagues; submissions; professional project managers, 1968; senior posts given to private sector applicants; friction between departments; sponsor driven projects; politics of projects at national level; tunnel design problems; railwaymen socilalising; new railway in Iran; sir Bob Reid; d.o.b. 1939-10, railway work: 1961-1996, Euston; Oxley; New Street; Coventry; Leamington; Loughborough Chord; Manchester, Victoria, Piccadilly; St Peter's Church; British Rail Research; Eastern Region (ER); North Eastern Region (NER); South East Lancashire North East Cheshire (SELNEC); Tyneside PTE; London midland Region; Transmark; Iranian Railways; Heath, Donald 2002-10-08
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 3; 4 years on Iran scheme; no maps available; 25Kv electric; four aspect signalling; culture clash prevented decision making; dubious expense claims; shah of Persia, revolution; staff evacuation; arabian railway, phosphates transportation, market decline, railway not built; 1976 channel tunnel project; single sponsor projects, more than one led to disputes; Heath, Donald 2002-10-08
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 4; problems with managing projects; Ken Davies; national standards replacing regional ones; point heaters policy, problems; carriage servicing depot; East Coast Main Line (ECML), best returns; replacement of locomotive hauled trains with High Speed Trains (HST); Nicholas Ridley; hostile civil service attitudes; planning possessions for electrification, clearance over bridges; other novel solution; unidentifies cables; business sectors unwilling to share costs; Clapham accident; signal installers, retraining; Ian Campbell; class 89; mark 3 carriage; new trains project manager; mark 4 carriages; West Coast Main Line (WCML); Driving Van Trailer (DVT); Union Internationale des Chemin de Fer (UIC); remote control; class 91, based on Advanced Passenger Train (APT); problems with carriage door controls, invertors, air conditioning toilets, John Prescott; locomotive problems; software problems; d.o.b. 1939-10, railway work: 1961-1996, Clifton service depot; St Margarets Edinburgh; Gerlderd Road bridge; York; Newcastle; Clapham; Inverness; Exeter; British Railways Board (BRB); Midland Main Line; Abbots Ripton; InterCity; Heath, Donald 2002-10-08
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 5; class 90, changing equipment on locomotive in service; first class 91 run in 1988 hauling a failed High Speed Train (HST), adapted sets to form test train sets, late delivery of mark 4 carriages, 6000hp traction; signalled to unelectrified lines, pantograph and awning damage; thefts throughout the region; cost of electrification, number of train sets; signal interferance, overcoming running and installation problems; royal train; 3hrs 29mins London-Edinburgh; North london lines; Chris Green; solving operating problems; investment committee; tilt detection failure system, problems; R. Campbell; Heath, Donald 2002-10-08
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 7; more on Parliamentary Bill; disbanding team; objections, possible retrospective solutions; team dispersal; career ending; problems with contractors; view on railwaymen; avilability of skilled personnel; recruitment difficulties; CCTV monitoring on stations; tunnel design; London's secret tunnels; crowd, fire control; ventilation; Heath, Donald 2002-10-08
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Reg Batten; Flying Scotsman Batten, Reg 2005-06-22
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; George Hinchcliffe; Flying Scotsman Hinchcliffe, George 2005-07-27
apprentice chemist, chemist, LNER, BR Research Dept, brake blocks; d.o.b. 1918, railway work 1937-1980s, Derby Henley, Eric 2001-06-11; 2001-06-20
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 2002-04-11
junior clerical posts; clerical posts (staff section); sundries division; National Carriers Limited (NCL); industral relations officer; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); goods inward; train ferry, vegetable traffic; night shift; Vacancy List; horse section Southern Area; cartage and deliveries, horse shunting dities; traffic apprenticeship; Staff Office; Traffic Manager's Office; reorganisation, pay and efficiency; rationalisation and transfer; redundancy; d.o.b. 1921-10-24, railway work: 1938-1981, Broad Street; Bishopsgate goods depot; Spitalfields; Covent Garden; Liverpool Street Station; King's Cross; Peterborough; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Midland Region (LMR); National Carriers Limited (NCL); Railtrack; Standen, Frank Charles 2002-11-06
probationary clerk; class 3 clerk; clerical officer (CO); head of section (CO4); travel centre manager; telesales manager; passenger & goods; railway studentship scheme, goods depot project; divisional experience; formal training, day release, Institute of Transport; cattle transportation; coal co-ordination section; merry-go-round (MGR); research and planning section; early digitalisation; freight train, passenger train planning, survey; draft timetables; service improvements; group travel section; shift working patterns; travel centres; fraud; staff shotages through dismissals; All Purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); Portable Ticket Issuing System (PORTIS); conflict between staff; despatch of tickets; group travel; telesales office closure, operating problems; National Rail Enquiry Service (NRES); value of business travel; Regional Railways North East (RRNE); complaints procedure; Birmingham-London service, complaints; trade union membership; d.o.b. 1946-09-24, railway work: 1965-2000, York Goods; Foss Island depot; Leeman Road; Knottingley passenger & goods; Castleford; Hunslet goods; Wellington Street; Bradfod Valley; Woodlesford; Holbeck; Healey Mills; York booking, HQ; Skegness branch; Leeds; Sheffield division; Hull; Gilberdyke; British railways (BR); Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB); National Coal Board (NCB); North Sea Ferries; British Telecom (BT); Scotney, John 2002-09-06
engineer; locomotive manufacture; depot inspector; maintenance engineer; divisional maintenance engineer; works manager; British Rail Engineering Ltd, BREL; diesel locomotives; chief mechanical and electrical engineer; High Speed Train; headquarters; single manning; Advanced Passenger Train-Prototype; sectorisation; Railway Division, Institute of Mechanical Engineers; d.o.b. 1931-05-01, railway work: 1955-1987, Metropolitan Vickers; Cora Iompair Eireann; Beyer Peacock; General Motors; English Electric; Southern Region; London Midland Region; Western Region; Manchester; Dukinfield; Derby; Woking staff college; Manchester Business School; Birmingham; Tyseley; Doncaster; Northern Ireland, Dublin, Belfast; USSR; West Coast Main Line; Old Oak Common; Bristol St Philips Marsh; Swansea; Plymouth; Penzance; Weston-super-Mare; Severn tunnel, Sudbrook pumping station; Barry Docks; Taunton; Paddington; Trans-Pennine summit tunnel; Crewe; Power, Samuel Robert Douglas MBE 2002-01-25
shorthand typist (war time only); railway housing; headquarters; rail travel and facilities; restaurant cars; flying bomb, carriage and wagon shop damage; dining cars; d.o.b. 1922-02-23, railway work: 1940-1945, Denham; Gerrards Cross; Craighead; Churston; King's Cross; Cheltenham; East African Railways; Green, Marjorie 2002-10-29
engine cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; driver; racehorse special train; horse boxes; safety; freight locomotives; turntable; rivalry between companies; lodging; water troughs; oil-burning locomotives; fumes, health; diesel railcar; diesel working; d.o.b. 1918-07-21, railway work: 1937-1983, London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS); Midland & Great Northern Railway (M&GN); Wisbech goods yard; New England yard, Peterborough; Spital; Whittlesea; Rugby; Leicester; Yarmouth; Sutton Bridge; Lynn; Northampton; Camden; London Euston-Crewe; Willesden junction; Leighton Buzzard; Loughborough; Wellingborough; Brent; Watford; Derby; Herbert, David Harold 2002-05-27
shorthand typist; learning railway geography; claims office; Second World War; travel to work; First Aid; holiday relief clerk; Morse code; computers; d.o.b. 1913-01-27, railway work: 1929-1968, London Euston, Broad Street; Southend; Maley, Doris Isabel 2002-06-07
probationer clerk; junior clerk; shorthand typist; clerical exam; description of station; claims office; Miss Green, tutor, explanation of course; work description; typing emergency instructions; roneo notices; VIPs, royalty, film stars, dictation, standards; outdoor machinery section; d.o.b. 1939, railway work 1957-1963, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne; Alnwick; Hertfordshire; Northumberland; Ware Station; Liverpool Street; Chertsey; Waterloo; London Bridge; Southampton Docks; Sheffield; Derby; Plymouth; Bristol; Shell Mex/BP; Alnwick Gazette; Shalice, Brenda (nee Pow) 2003-01-21
carriage works apprentice; coach painting; coach testing; signwriting; cleaning; polishing; shopman; work standards; training; safety; wagon works; circus train; Dr Beeching; permanent way, railman, trackman, ganger, chargeman; York Railway Institute; d.o.b. 1930-05-29, railway work: 1947-1993, National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); Hull & Barnsley Railway; Bertram Mills Circus; British Road Services; York carriage works; Clifton carriage sidings; Derby; Egton Bridge; Newcastle; Darlington; Whitby; York Railway Institute; Pinder, Lionel Barry (known as Barry) 2002-05-15
railway family; messenger lad, goods depot; conditions, hours, uniform; railway horses; Railway Home Guard; royal train; staff mess facilities; relief van/lorry driver; nationalisation; parcels; trade union branch secretary; parcels concentration; redundant; motor driver; National Freight Corporation, NFC; trade union militancy; training; safety; depot merger; decline of parcel business; warehouse manager; d.o.b. 1925-01-19, railway work: 1939-1990, National Freight Corporation, NFC; London Marylebone; London King's Cross; Bowes Park bridge; Bayford tunnel; New Southgate; Hatfield; Finsbury Park; St Pancras; Somers Town; London Paddington; Great Northern warehouse; Ellis, Reginald Harry (Reg) 2002-05-31
apprentice woodworker; carriage body builder; windows; woods; classes of travel; working conditions; method of construction; tools; medical fund; sleeper coaches; dining saloons; Second World War, blackout preparation; staff excursions; Mechanics Institute; Royal Engineers; asbestosis; social activities; quality of coaches; d.o.b. 1911-04-01, railway work: 1927-1968, Great Western Railway; Swindon; Cornwall; Luton; Cheltenham; Gloucester; Manchester; Derby; Gee, Charles 2002-01-16
probationer clerk; clerk +2 levels of promotion; MS5; assistant director; duties of clerk conditions of pay; staff section, histories, footplate staff disciplinary procedure; record management; commercial department, broaden experience, goods and passenger stations; control; footplate bous; time sheets, graphs, mechanised systems; train timings, East Coast Main Line (ECML); pegasus computer; progressive computerisation; national traffic data; scientific principles applied to freight operations; movements and development section; implementation of Total Operations Processing System (TOPS), Theodore Strong, David Bowick, James Urquhart; Bob Arnot; transponder system; union problems; view on railways late application of freight system; fleet reduction; data processing merge; rationalisation; d.o.b. 1933-02-12, railway work 1949-1990, Hull; Hessle Road; Dairycoats; Springhead; Doncaster; Scarborough; Dringhouses Yard; Leeds; Great Northern House, London; Darlington; Marylebone; Carlifornia; Cornwall; Premier Oil & Soap & Co; Avery Scales; Needlers; Fenners; British Railways Board; IBM; British Rail (BR); Green, Ken 2003-01-16
footplate; cleaner; fireman; driver; supervisor, traffic department; work conditions; culture; trade union; women engine cleaners; railway town; lodging; goods links; Local Departmental Committee; clothing; routes; comparison of steam and diesel; pension; nationalisation; d.o.b. 1919-10-14, railway work: 1937-1981, London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS); Midland Railway; North Staffordshire Railway; Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); Cromford and High Peak Railway; Derby; Camden; Blackpool; Buxton; Wellingborough; Nottingham; Melton; Harrow Wealdstone; Chellaston; Crewe; Coventry; Birmingham New Street; Gresty Road barracks; Bristol; Leicester; Trent; Stoke Bank; Manchester; Chester; Llandudno; Warrington; Manchester Victoria; Coalville; Weston, John Albert 2002-03-06; 2002-03-15; 2002-03-21; 2002-03-28;
labourer, permanent way; sub-ganger; ganger; pre-assembly ganger; work study; civil engineering planning; divisional chief inspector, permanent way; staff suggestion sheme; d.o.b. 1924-07-02, railway work 1957-1984, Germany; Waterloo; Okehampton; Launceston; Yeoford Junction; Tisbury; Yeovil Junction; Three Bridges; Stuttgart, Germany; Lingfield; Crawley; Croydon; Brighton; East Grinstead; Redhill; Tonbridge; Balcombe; Schrade, Karl Friedrich 2001-10-31
traffic apprentice; supernumerary assistant to district passenger manager, then district goods manager; assistant yard master; assistant head of freight, Eastern Region; traffic manager; works assistant; bulk terminals manager; freight planning manager; chief operating manager's department; rail travel, Second World War; accountancy; training; nationalisation; marshalling yards; managing style; coal traffic; reorganisation; merry-go-round working; steel traffic; Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); trade union impact; privatisation; d.o.b. 1921-12-21, railway work: 1949-1983, London and North Eastern Railway; British Rail; Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB); National Coal Board (NCB); British Rail Eastern Region; British Rail North Eastern Region; Freightliner; Speedlink; Hadley Wood accountancy school; Bishop's Stortford; Sheffield Victoria station; Ipswich; Grimsby; Eastern Region headquarters, London Liverpool Street; York; Gascoigne Wood, Selby; Toton; Aire Valley; Knottingley; London King's Cross; McCarter, Charles 2002-
lad messenger; goods porter; motor driver; goods clerk; District Claims Inspector; claims investigation; claims prevention; sundries; National Carriers Ltd; Cartage & Terminals Inspector; health and safety; d.o.b. 1920-09-09, railway work c.1935-1979, Taunton; Bowditch, Alec 2001-09-11; 2001-09-25
clerk, enquiry and reservation office; Regent Street travel office; travel warrants; group travel; tour manager; Golden Rail; special trains; Merrymaker excursions; management training; chief clerk; area manager's office; management staff grade (MS2); customer complaints; electrification; marketing; publications; events; privatisation; d.o.b. 1960-09-27, railway work: 1979-1999, Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC); Institution of Railway Operators; Railway Study Association; London Paddington; Bognor Regis; Brighton; Calais, Boulogne, France; York; Burgess Hill; Southend; Cambridge; Hamilton House; East Anglia; London King's Cross; London Waterloo; Croydon; Friars Bridge Court; Saunders, Claire Caroline (nee Wickes) 2002-04-19
railway family, stationmaster; Second World War; clerk; stationhouse; goods office; accounts; training for women; mineral office; reorganisation; area management; discipline; pregnancy; d.o.b. 1939-05-15, railway work: 1955-1970, Edinburgh; Smeaton; Glasgow High Street; Maud; Jedburgh; Inverurie; Glasgow Bridgeton; Boness; Wishaw; River Forth; Bridge of Orchy; Abbey Hill; Tynehead; Dunbar; Motherwell; Dundee; Thornton Junction; Falconer, Kathleen 2002-02-02
clerk; traffic apprentice; stationmaster; area manager; freight depot manager; area manager; divisional operating superintendent; management services manager; divisional manager; regional operations manager; safety programme director; ticket office; daily routine; Lewisham accident; staffing stations; initial training; rules and regulations; signalling inspectors; training, motive power department; freight train investigations; box visits; staff problems; Tom Rixon; total signal failure; railway houses; disciplinary; staff shortages; Lionel Sebright; depot badly managed; change management; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); working management courses; operating discipline; rationalisation; electrification; nuclear flasks; Her Majesty's Railway Inspectors (HMRI); diesel multiple units (DMU); flooding; points failure; career moves; handling disputes; Spa Road incident; revenue protection; commuter associations; management of all aspects of accountability; strike 1988; Automatic Train Protection (ATP); Southall accident; Clapham accident; CLI 55 doors, backside covering; class 47; Signals passed at danger (SPADS); revenue protection; royal trains; safety management group; changing of work practice following accident; theory of structure simplification; haphazard management development; empowerment; d.o.b. 1935-09-21, railway work 1956-1992, Catterick; West country, Exeter; Eden Park; Elmers End; Clock House; Hither Green Booking Office; Collumpton; Newton Abbott; Taunton; Bristol temple Meads; Merthyr Tydfil; Worcester; Torquay Line; Banbury; Kemble; Shrewsbury District; Gloucester Eastgate; Uxbridge; Twyford; Southall; Newbury race; Cheltenham; Carlisle; Perth Depot; Quintinshill; Workington; Sellafield; Nottingham; Headquarters, Paddington; Didcot power station; Westbury; Chippenham; Beckenham; High Halden; Dover; Doncaster; Newton; Dillington House; Swindon; British Steel Corporation; Eastern Region; National Coal Board (NCB); Western Region; Poynter, Bob 2002-11-19&27
clerical posts; O.V.S. Bullied, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME); records centre, rolling stock; double deck rolling stock; delays to trains; wagon unloading; Freight sundries; General Manager's office Waterloo; trolleys and tractors; electrification Isle of Wight; collection and delivery traffic; National Parcels plan; automated baggage; working conditons in railway offices; d.o.b. 1928-04-12, railway work: 1949-1984, Somerset; Easleigh Works, Southampton; Cario; London; Borough Markey Junction; Woking; Salisbury and Isle of Wight; Waterloo; Harrogate; York; Southern Railway; British Rail; London Midland Region (LMR); Southern Region (SR); Compton, Hugh John 2002-10-24
carriage and wagon works; wagon repair shops; railway housing; moving house by rail; railway family; social activities; Railway Institute; travel privileges; Railway Technical Centre; reorganisation; d.o.b. 1930, railway work: 1946-1985, Burton-on-Trent; Chellaston; Llandudno Junction; Chester; Birkenhead; Wigston; Derby; Chaddesden; Loughborough; Dover; Forbes, Ralph 2002-02-13
clerk, reservations and enquiries; special traffic; diagramming staff; shipping and international services division (S&ISD); pricing; tours; brochures; Sealink; production manager; group sales; customer relations; privatisation; InterCity; British Rail Community Unit; community affairs manager; d.o.b. 1942-10-04, railway work: 1959-1988, railway work: 1988-1996, Fred Olsen/Bergen Line; Anglia Railways; West Anglia Great Northern; British Rail Community Unit; Kentish Town; London Liverpool Street station; Holland; London Victoria; Lourdes; Eversholt House; Ireland; Ashford; London Euston; Sowman, John 2002-07-15
accountancy apprentice; works chief bookkeeper; works accountant; audit; area accountant (estates); Secretary of LNER superannuation fund; management training; centralisation of banking; cash flow control; pensions accountant, British Railways Board; former railway company superannuation funds; superannuation computerisation; corporate budgets manager; director of funds; European Community; European Investment Bank; environmental grants; privatisation; d.o.b. 1922-10-26, railway work: 1947-1982, London & North Eastern Railway; British Railways Board; European Community; European Investment Bank; Stratford works; London King's Cross; Peterborough; Woking staff college; Bradford, William Houliston 2002-06-24
graduate management trainee; merry-go-round working; relief supervisor; shift work; station manager; terminals manager; reorganisation; wagon load working; operations manager; difficulties of being a woman manager; area manager; coal; business management organisation; counselling; management training; organisational change; quality management; flooding; personnel management; regional differences; privatisation; derailment; d.o.b. 1955-06-26, railway work 1977-2001, Doncaster Division; Grantham; Grimsby; Immingham; Scunthorpe; Lincoln; Sunderland; Warwick University; Strathclyde University; Sheffield; Gregory, Catherine Jane Ellen 2001-08-28
office boy; junior clerk; clerk; Assistant Area Welfare Officer; Area Welfare Officer; Regional Welfare Officer; railway community, Eastleigh carnival; d.o.b. 1938-02-13, railway work c. 1953-1993, Eastleigh Works; Southampton; Southern Region; Network SouthEast; Smith, Roy 2001-09-21
cleaner; past cleaner; fireman; driver; locomotive types; late 1930s; second world war; working in the blitz; promotion; passenger and freight links; newspaper, special traffic; working with steam; lodging; diesel traction; closed lines, taking up the track; driver training; mutual improvement classes; electric traction; incidents, overhead wires; neutral sections; coal trains; Beyer-Garratt; steam; d.o.b. 1918-05, railway work: 1937-1983, Scottish depots; Bury Motive Power Depot; Northampton; Derby Railway School; Toton; Knight Leslie 2002-11-30
footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; Second World War; motive power shed; routes; lodgings; weather, snow; troop trains; dieselisation; single manning; diesel railcar; incident; injury; test trains; Advanced Passenger Train (APT); Maglev; Channel Tunnel; d.o.b. 1922-06-11, railway work: 1939-1987, London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), Derby; Bristol; Wellingborough; Peterborough; Crewe; Leeds; Carlisle; Gloucester; Stranraer; Birmingham; Wichnor; High Peak; Rowsley; Dyer, Joseph Ronald 2002-02-02
temporary junior clerk; goods clerk, office supervisor, class 4; second world war; dock goods; delivery traffic; no training; conditions; effect of war; blitz; work in passenger coaches, office damaged; salary; hours of work; efficiency exam; D2 T1-11 shorthand and typing; shipping office; invoices, rating and charging; american servicemen; problems; facilites for women, docks offices; goods agent; confusion of wagon numbers; grading structure, equal pay; national insurance stamp; trade union; strike action, views; suspension; civil service exam; d.o.b. 1923-12-15, railway work 1940-1961, West Kirby; Isle of MAn; Douglas; Hunt's Bank; Waterloo Dock Goods; Canada Dock; Southport; Liverpool; Edge Hill; Aintree station; Austria, Italy; London Midland & Scottish (LMS); British Railways (BR); Dickinson, Doreen 2003-01-21
booking clerk, passenger running section; time table office; BTC publications; chief publicity officer's department (passenger); Intercity advertising services; enquiry office; rules and regulations section; self drawn maps; A. Earl Edwards; David Kirby; accident; emergency timetable; publicity publications; 1966 world cup; alphabetic train departure sheets, computerisation; selective prices manual; geographic flow lines; channel tunnel; David Rayner; coded frequency maps; D2 T1-14 sectorisation; Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers andd Firemen (ASLEF) strike; inter-terminal links, London Underground; last Manchester pullman; Chris Green; penalty fares; silver swallow award; methodology; d.o.b. 1933-01-01, railway work 1948-12-04, Sydenham Hill Booking Office; West Dulwich; Austria; East Croydon; Waterloo; Lewisham; London; Stockton and Darlington; Penmanshiel Tunnel; Washington DC; New york; Euston House; London-Brighton; Stansted; British Railways; British Transport Commission (BTC); Terence Cuneo; Transmark; British cartographic Society; Thameslink; Network Southeast; Intercity; Slatter, Bernard Arthur James 2002-12-04; 2002-12-09
goods clerk; divisional manager's office; car sleepers; freight; passenger movements; train timing; performance; relief control; parcels; area passenger manager; area manager's office; retail; business manager; redundancy; d.o.b. 1946-01-4, railway work 1962-1997, Shoeburyness; King's Cross; Thorneside; Great Northern; North Thameside; West Anglia Great Northern (WAGN); Ashton, Peter 2001-12-07
