Made during interview training session. stationmaster; traffic apprenticeship; Beeching closures; reorganisations; East Coast Trains Inspector; Glasgow, Stranraer Town; Burnt Island; British Rail Headquarters; Wales; H Gould: childhood; train spotting; graduate management training; vacation work, porter, guard; staff relations; traffic apprenticeship interview; passenger guard; training; perks; effect on home life; stationmaster, staff management; promotion, general assistant, operating department, British Rail headquarters; Gerry Fiennes; continental department; passenger assistant; regrading; planning department; assistant sales manager, outlets; continental sales manager; reorganisation; passenger manager; I Lockie childhood; music; management training scheme; army; decision to join railway; stationmaster; Beeching closure proposals; train planning department; market research; Bert Gemmell; Secretary to Train Users Consultative Committee (TUCC); staff relations; management style; interest groups; pressure groups; closure proposals, Settle-Carlisle line, misuse of proposal procedures; train planning and research; workplace atmosphere; closures assistant; redundancy; East Coast Trains Inspector; Hugh Gould/Ian Lockie Oral Histories 2000-04-17
office boy; carriage works apprentice; training, carriage construction; drawing office; work study; Winston Churchill's funeral; carriage repairs; general manager's saloon; derailments, continuous welded rail; exhibition trains; weather; wagons, claims, maintenance; privatisation; nuclear industry; Transmark; consultancy; TOPS; d.o.b. 1935-10-06, railway work: 1950-c.1990s, BR Southern Region; London Brighton & South Coast Railway; London Transport; South Eastern & Chatham Railway; Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais (SNCF); Transfera; Rank Xerox; Post Office; New Zealand Railways; English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS); Lancing carriage works; Brighton; Micheldever; London; Eastleigh works; Portsmouth; Southampton; Eastleigh locomotive shed; Slade Green electric sheds; London Victoria station; Stewarts Lane; Waterloo & City line; Isle of Wight; Acton London Transport Executive works; Wimbledon depot; Clapham junction; Bournemouth; Hastings; Ashford works; London Waterloo station; Croydon; Poole; Weymouth; New Crossgate works; Dunkirk; Salisbury; Eastern Europe; Ulster; Belfast; Selhurst; Swindon; London King's Cross; York; Sellafield; Australia; Derby; Meaby, Arthur James Oral Histories 2002-04-29
architect; Modernisation Plan; Beeching; British Rail Board (BRB) HQ Architect (Maintenance and General); royal funeral train; d.o.b. 1924-10-28, railway work 1951-1986, West Hampstead; Fenchurch Street; Ipswich MPD; Bury St Edmunds Goods Depot; Stratford Carriage Works; Leyton Permanent Way Depot; Peterborough Station; Maze Hill Station; Finsbury Park; Helpston, Midland Railway Goods Shed; Ravensthorpe; Digswell viaduct; St Pancras; Marylebone Station; Melbury House; Metroland; Potters Bar; Hadley Wood; Blackfriars; Cannon Street; London Bridge; Charing Cross Station; Victoria Station; Cemetery Station. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Middleton, Derek George Oral Histories 2001-02-07
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Bernard Knipe; railway clubs; BRSA; memories of individuals; first aid movement; changes in the railway industry; signalman; British Rail; retirement activity; charity work; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Grantham; Biggleswade; Retford; Sheffield; Poland Knipe, Bernard Oral Histories 2006-01-18
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Nick Alexander; religion; changes in the community; changes in the railway industry; marshalling yards; engineer; British Rail; retirement activity; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Cambridge; Tinsley; Leeds; Liberia; Mozambique; Swaziland; Greece; Potters Bar Alexander, Nick Oral Histories 2006-01-26
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 Oral Histories 2006-08-23
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 Oral Histories 2002-08-28
premium apprentice; A.J. Cook; training; drawing office; conditions; progressman; locomotive repair; acting shed master; supervisory shed foreman; relief mechanical foreman; derailment; steam locomotive speed tests; diesel railcar; locomotive shed master; L.P. Parker; O.S. Nock; mutual improvement class; weather, snow; LNER Pacific locomotives; locomotive inspections; mileage; overhauls; Clean Air Act; Local Departmental Committee (LDC); managing footplate staff; discipline, exceeding speed restrictions; Deltic locomotives; technical and rolling stock assistant; maintenance schedule; Class 31 locomotives; end of Divisional maintenance organisation; voluntary redundancy; d.o.b. 1925-08-13, railway work: 1941- , London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS); Midland Railway; Great Central Railway; Great Northern Railway; Hull & Barnsley Railway; Midland & Great Northern Railway; British Rail Eastern Region; Great Western Railway; British Rail Western Region; London Midland Region; Ffestiniog Railway; Gresley Society; A1 Steam Locomotive Trust; Flying Scotsman Association; A4 Society; Doncaster works; Roundwood; Rossington; Doncaster Carr yard; Hornsea; Scarborough; Colwyn Bay; Crewe; Wigan Mining and Technical College; Crimpsall works; Barkeston junction; Ipswich; Norwich; Melton Constable; Cromer Beach shed; Stratford works; Yarmouth; Lowestoft; Leicester; Cambridge; Bury St Edmunds; March; Ely; Mildenhall; London Liverpool Street; Peterborough; London King's Cross; Claypole; London Marylebone; Sheffield; Manchester; Woodhead tunnel; Stoke Bank; Skegness; Hemerdon Bank; Plymouth; Hatfield; Dunstable; Luton; Hitchin; Boston; Grantham; Edinburgh; Newcastle; Edinburgh Haymarket shed; Kentish Town shed; Letchworth; Connington; Melbourne, Australia; Salt River locomotive works, Bloemfontein, Bethlehem, Cape Town, Natal, South Africa; Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); Vancouver, Ontario, Quebec, Canada; Townend, Peter Norman Oral Histories 2002-05-31
clerk; signal and telecommunications department; signal maintenance office; telecommunications; Provincial Railways; investment; InterCity; Product Implementation Assistant; Trading Manager, privatisation; d.o.b. 1962-01-27, railway work 1979-1994, York; Keedby Swing Bridge; Immingham; Lincoln; Peterbrough; Doncaster; Newcastle; Morpeth curve; Settle-Carlisle Line; King's Cross; Knowles, Pamela Oral Histories 2001-10-10
locomotive works apprentice; draughtsman; drawing office; locomotive building, maintenance, repair; conditions, hours, discipline, uniform, tools, shifts, working conditions, washing, heating; women workers; Second World War; tracings; design office; d.o.b. 1924-03-28, railway work: 1939-1946, Southern Railway; Eastleigh locomotive works; Goble, Peter Eric Oral Histories 2002-04-11
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 Oral Histories 2002-10-24
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Geoffrey Myers; railway community; memories of individuals; retirement activity; charity work; 1990s; 2000s; Sheffield; Bradford; London; Woking; Poland; Doncaster; Sheffield; Sri Lanka; Filey; Bristol; Chesterfield; Ethiopia; Mozambique; South Africa; Ghana Myers, Geoffrey Oral Histories 2006-05-09
footplate, cleaner-driver;driver training; depot supervisor; incidents; housing; childhood, London, Swansea; Swansea Eastern depot; cleaning; first firing turn; Second World War; Mumbles railway; lodging; derailment; military special trains; routes, Banbury; meeting wife; grandfather's job, tram driver; move to Chester; home turn; Birmingham; lodgings; phlumonia cabin 1946-47; Old Oak Common; nationalisation, standard locomotive classes; weather, fog; gas turbine locomotives; diesel hydraulic locomotives; tutor drivers, problems, fault guides; tutor drivers; brake tenders; "Long Tom"; "top eight link"; passed fireman; diesel training inspector; radar gun; annual rides; Class 1000 diesel; speed, location in minutes; Class 1000 diesel; auto car turns; VJ Day troop train firing at Old Oak Common; Lambeth link; link vacuum freights; GWR 47XX heavy freight locomotives; condensing tanks; weir pump; Smithfield meat market; London Underground length limit; fireman; driver; lodging; double home turn; landladies; Bert Potter, royal train driver; No. 4 link, Swansea passenger; inaugural Pullman; Britannia Class locomotives, Severn Tunnel; Paddington-Shrewsbury mileage turn; Blue Pullmans; Bristolian; mileage turn payments; conditions, shifts, wife's reactions; accident, West Ealing, 1973, inquiry, inquest; Southall depot supervisor; Southall drivers' duties; preparing train sets, crew diagrams; Ealing; guards' duties, Greenford; ticket machines; Slough, Southall, management alterations; AAM, Train Crews; Slough, platform supervisor; "bridgebashes"; incident, level crossing; retirement; railway housing; d.o.b. 1926-11-20; railway work 1942-1991. Swansea; Banbury; Slough; London. Holder, Albert Edward (Bert) Oral Histories 2000-07-21; 2000-07-28
apprentice steam fitter; fitter; d.o.b. 1939-02-26,railway work c. 1954-1970, Ilford; interviewed Steeple View, Basildon Fynn, Peter Henry Oral Histories 2001-06-16
footplate; greaser boy; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; dieselisation; royal trains; single manning; depot closures; d.o.b. 1931-01-13, railway work 1945-1993, Exmouth Junction; Yeoford freight yard; Exeter St David's; Old Oak Common; Pinhoe; Cowley Bridge; Starcross; Munson, Charles P. Oral Histories 2001-04-19; 2001-04-26;
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 Oral Histories 2002-02-13
cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; passed fireman; driver; train crew supervisor, manager; relief manager; description of work; export coal; import fruit and vegetables; engineers trains; sleeper depots; "pick-up" freight trains; theatre specials; excursions; Beeching cuts; loan experience; night freight; link to link promotion; lodgings; Yorkshire, Tyne Tees Pullman; "Elizabethan"; oiling central motions, Gresley Pacifics; socialising; marriage; Deltics; shunting; piloting; promotion, relief link; rail car; signalling exam; driver only operation; platform security; relief manager; signalbox fire; station cleaning; delayed passengers; track cleaning; suicides; redundancy; d.o.b. 1932-01-01, railway work 1947-1989, Boston; Mablethorpe; Peterborough; Skegness; Neasden; Old Oak Common; King's Cross; Hull; Edinburgh; Hitchin; Broxholme; Darlington; Brighton; Aldrington; Watford; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); Clarke, Peter Brinkley Oral Histories 2003-04-14
permanent way; relay gang; length gang; ballast cleaner operator; d.o.b. 1932-06-15, railway work 1954-1994, Taunton; Oxford; Penzance; Fishguard; Shrewsbury; Paddington; Durston; Exeter; Exmouth Junction; Smith, Roy Oral Histories 2001-05-08
5 black & white photographs of a derailment of a sleeping car train at Lincoln. Photographs of derailment of sleeping car train at Lincoln (supplied title) Oral Histories
tracer; head of laboratory; assistant director (engineering); chief of research; general manager; project manager; director; joining the railway; training; civil engineering laboratory; soil mechanics; research department; T.M. Herbert; new laboratory opened by Duke of Edinburgh; Dr Beeching; John Ratter; dieselisation; Stanley Raymond; Sydney Jones; Tony Brindle; hovercraft difficulties, profitability; Board Headquarters; David Bowick, Lance Ibbotson, K.V. Smith; Arthur Butland, Chief Civil Engineer; study tour; various chairmen at Transmark; long term projects; d.o.b. 1927-01-12, railway work 1949-1986, London; Hong Kong/Malta; Paddington; Derby; Marylebone; Isleof Wight6; Waterloo; North America; Iran; Queensland; Egypt; Chicargo-Detroit; Brisbane; Botswana; Kenya; Zambia; Zimbabwe; British Rail Board, Headquarters; Office of Research and Experiments (ORE); Union Internationale des Chemin De Fers; Hoverspeed Ltd; Transmark; Soferail; Betchel; Bartlett, Don Oral Histories 2002-12-05
British Transport Police; London Underground; police-railway relations; docks; Sealink; boat trains; ticket-dodging; fatalities; d.o.b. 1945-02-06, railway work 1975-2000, Weymouth; Southampton; South Wales; London; London Liverpool Street; Southend; Webb, Jim Oral Histories 2001-04-10
footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; Beeching closures; locomotives; diesels; Flying Scotsman; Childhood family experiences, moving around; father, a miner; interest in Arts & Crafts; first job, book-binding apprentice, printing firm at Wombwell; interest in train spotting; applied for cleaner's job because of higher pay; cleaner at Mexborough; made redundant, 1959, transfer to Shoeburyness as fireman, Dr Beeching; lived in lodgings; fired Stanier tank engines on LT&S route; worked "on loan" at Plaistow; transferred to Doncaster as fireman; fired over all routes, on all classes of steam locomotive; lodging at Kentish Town; transferred as driver to Sheffield; worked diesel multiple units and HSTs on Midland mainline; disillusioned with diesel engines; request for redundancy declined; retired on ill health; last firing turn, Doncaster-King's Cross on Flying Scotsman, when owned by Alan Pegler. d.o.b. 1940-10-01, railway work 1956-1990, Mexborough; Shoeburyness; Plaistow; Doncaster; Kentish Town; Sheffield; Midland mainline. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Lane, Barry Oral Histories 2000-10-10
junior goods clerk; signalling and telegraph probationer; lineman; installer; traffic apprentice; power lineman; mobile maintenance team; freight clerk; timetable planning; Beeching proposals; consultation; manipulated costings; freight depot manager; National Carriers Limited; assistant area manager docks and commercial; TOPS, Total Operations Processing System; assistant area manager terminals; parcels; BR management; d.o.b. 1935-03-10, railway work: 1950-1985, MR, Midland Railway; LNWR, London & North Western Railway; GNR, Great Northern Railway; LMS, London Midland & Scottish Railway; NLR, North London Railway; NSR, North Staffordshire Railway; S&DJR, Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway; National Carriers Limited; GWR, Great Western Railway; Railway Inspectorate; Kettering motive power depot; Kettering goods; Market Harborough; Seaton; Uppingham; Winston Magna; Rugby; Wigston South; Bedford; Kentish Town; Gospel Oak Bank; Dalston; Bow Junction; Uttoxeter; Camden; London St Pancras; Perth; Edinburgh Lothian Road Goods; Falkland yard, Ayr; Hawick; Whitrope; Perth; Coatbridge; Aberdeen; Glasgow; Waverley; Newport Alexandra docks; Pontypridd; Radyr; Cardiff; Swindon; Buckie; Keith; Edinburgh; Wilkinson, Brian Oral Histories 2002-05-06;
junior clerk, permanent way inspector's office; relief clerk; continental department; continental claims department; freight; claims; Sealink; d.o.b. 1923-04-02, period c. 1937-1982, Bournemouth; Southampton; London; Chilton, Bob Oral Histories 2001-10-23
entrance exam; junior clerk; coal sales, newspaper sales; parcels clerk; working conditions; ethnic minority workers; staff investigator; staff suggestions; management training; personnel; infrastructure services; privatisation; Railtrack; d.o.b. 1948-05-29, railway work 1965-2001, Hebbon; Benton; Gateshead; Newcastle; Liverpool Street; Birmingham Curzon Street; The Grove, Watford; Severn Valley Railway; Denholm, Michael John Oral Histories 2001-09-12
8 black & white photographs of the largest load carried by rail, a coke drum transported from Immingham Dock to Killingholme oil refinery. Photographs of the largest load carried by rail (supplied title) Oral Histories
apprentice; mechanical engineer; various technical positions; Bullied pacifics, redesign; improver, production planning office; assessing locomotive running costs, 1930s; intensive use second world war; lack of compensation for railway war work; main drawing office; Ted Fox, Frank Carrier, 2-8-0, 2-10-0 WD locomotives; R.A. Riddles; mobile testing units; dynamometer car; first mainline diesel electric locomotive; 1947; nationalisation; Roland Bond; Sir Nigel Gresley; details of testing equipment, locomotives; Dr Andrews; vehicle vibration studied in USA; coal hauling; gas turbines; Pullman car works; Stewart Cox; modernisation plan; diesel and electric motive power; comparison of different methods of traction; differntial between size of railway and the number of HQ staff; d.o.b. 1922-02-13, railway work 1939-1981, Harpenden; Tilbury; Capetown; Derby; London Road; Rugby; USA; San Francisco; New York; London; Jarvis & Co; London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMSR); University of IIlinois; Brtish Rail; Norfolk & North Western Railway; Virginia and Norfolk Railroad; Baldwin locomotive Works; General Electric Plant; Milwaulkee Railroad; British Rail Board (BRB). Jarvis, James Michael Oral Histories 2002-11-15
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; George Saville; childhood; sport; railway community; memories of individuals; anecdotes from the workplace; changes in the railway industry; unions; strikes; Ernest Marples; Dr Beeching; Stratford; Devons Road; Tilbury; Rotterdam; West Ham; Moscow; Felixstowe; Billingsgate; Thurrock Saville, George Oral Histories 2005-11-29
lad porter; footplate, engine cleaner, fireman; motorman; relief supervisor; training inspector; chief inspector; assistant motive power officer; d.o.b. 1924-02-14, railway work 1937-1982, East Dulwich; Tulsehill; Nine Elms; Porton Down; Clapham; Wallers Ash; Salisbury; Peckham Rye; London Victoria; Stewart Lane; Gosforth; Wimbledon; London Waterloo; Neal, William Frederick Oral Histories 2001-03-30
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Phil Williams; work culture and relationships; conditions at work; canteens; works; changes in the railway industry; engineer; 1960s; Stratford Page, Phil Oral Histories 2005-03-07
porter, signalling; childhood, home life; Christmas; chores; school; railway interest; religion; starting work; joining railway, porter, Barrow-on-Soar; Goods Shed; signalling, rules and regulations; cartage; traffic; signals; signalman; coal freight; signalman, Second World War; coal freight; Wigston central Square, signalling; Bagworth; special class relief signalman; training; central line differences; 1965 move to private sector; rail concessions, family holidays, Scotland;railway moves; bikes; Scotland; Swannington, district outing; excursions, Blackpool Illuminations; trip to London; Morecambe Illuminations; Lake District; licensing authority; Methodist preaching; blank; role in local government, welfare, railway giving time off; d.o.b. 1914-02-19, railway work 1937-1965. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Jarvis, Eric Oral Histories 2001-04-28
footplate, cleaner, fireman; clerk, accounts, supplies. d.o.b. 1921-09-15; railway work 1945-1985. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Rice, Walter Oral Histories 2000-06-08
junior messenger; junior accounts clerk; ticketing; engineers accounts; pay; personnel; decimalisation; West Coast Main Line; computerisation; d.o.b. 1920-06-25, railway work 1935-1982, Willesden; Camden; The Grove, Watford; Birmingham; Brooks, Ted Oral Histories 2001-08-29
footplate; relief running foreman; train crew supervisor; father, a village blacksmith and farrier; childhood; school; travel; early interest in railways; cinema car on express trains; leaving school aged 14; worked for father for 3 years, as could not join railway until 18 years old; railway entrance exam; medical; experiences as an engine cleaner; December 1940, became a passed cleaner; seniority; Second World War experiences; trade union membership; transport to work, housing, lodgings; 1944 became a regular fireman; memories as a fireman; fireman on Kings Cross route; first driving turns; Pullman cars, "blanked" off brakes; diesel training; practical training; steam, diesels, Deltics, HSTs; single manning; domestic life during footplate career; relief running foreman, relief panel; relief train crew supervisor; training at Crewe; reminiscences; 1922-11-24, railway work 1940-1985. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Day, Charles Reginald Oral Histories 2001-05-24
porter; shunter; chargeman, parcels concentration depot; rest day relief supervisor; platform supervisor; work conditions; marshalling; promotion of ethnic minority staff; father, an Indian immigrant; passenger relations; d.o.b. 1937-07-08, railway work: 1958-1996, Leeds Central station; Neville Hill; Leeds parcels concentration depot; Leeds City station; Ali, Muhammed Rashid Ronald Oral Histories 2002-01-30
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Ronald Kennedy; Flying Scotsman Kennedy, Ronald Oral Histories 2005-06-22
traffic apprenticeship; stationmaster; A1 Pacific locomotive; London main line; training, goods, large station; firing; diesel multiple units (DMU); Associated Soceity of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF), strike; milk train; pigeon trains; royal train; electrification; Channel Tunnel; major incidents; station master, role; hazards; Willie Whitelaw; Gerald Aston; signalling; electrification; air brakes; Frank Worsdale; Gerry Somerfield; channel tunnel, terminals; Alain Bertrand; John Bonham-Carter; accident; last British Rail (BR) slip coach; impact of privatisation; expenditure and revenue; d.o.b. 1927; railway 1949-1986. Bletchley line; Stratford; Marylebone - Nottingham; st. Pancras; Manchester Huntsbank; Birmingham New Street; Penrith; Cartmel station; Cockermouth station; Kilmarnock; Glasgow South; Liverpool St; Woking; Paddington; Glasgow; West Ruislip; Bluebell railway; Oxford University Railway Society; Transmark; London Metropolitan Line; British Rail (BR); SCNF. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Oakley, Raymond G. Oral Histories 2000-05-06
trainspotting; shunter; guard/conductor; rail cars; Beeching; industrial action; travelling ticket collector; ticket fraud; football traffic; enquiry office clerk; freightliner; ticket inspector; commercial instructor; assistant chief ticket inspector; chief ticket inspector; chief station supervisor; assistant station manager; royal train; privatisation; d.o.b. 1932-06-29, railway work: 1960-1993, Eastern Region; London Midland Region; Freightliner; English Electric Company; Brush; Witham goods yard; Stratford; Witham-Maldon; Colchester; London Liverpool Street; Fenchurch Street; London Euston; Wembley; Southend; Smith, Michael John Oral Histories 2002-02-15
civil engineering; LNER; Royal Engineers; East Coast Main Line; weather, flooding; signalling and telegraph department; work study; training; productivity; material handling officer; BRB Headquarters; parcels; BRUTES, freight pallets; London Airport Rail Link; d.o.b. 1920-10-09, railway work 1940-1975, Edinburgh; Fort William; Western Region; Reading; Glasgow Technical College; Woking Staff College; Cosgrove, John Travers Oral Histories 2001-10-24
clerk; assistant controller; traffic apprentice; traffic manager's office; assistant district passenger manager; road services officer, BRB; personal assistant to managing director of National Carriers Ltd; d.o.b. 1927, railway work 1942-1985, Hamilton; Glasgow Queen Street; Spean Bridge; Fort William; London Fenchurch Street; London Liverpool Street; Harringay West; Clacton; Whitemoor; London King's Cross; London Euston; Stratford motive power depot; McKinnon, Robert Oral Histories 2001-11-29
engine cleaner; conditions; redundant; porter; senior porter; return to footplate; Second World War; Royal Engineers, 191 Railway Operating Company; fireman; driver; posted to India; Indian Railway Company; ambulance trains; demobilisation; passed fireman; floods; driver; running foreman; Deltics; royal train; d.o.b. 1919-06-09, railway work: 1937-1982, LNER, London & North Eastern Railway; SNCF, Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais; Bengal and Assam Railway; Tweedmouth shed; Eyemouth; Burnmouth; Gateshead; Longmoor; France, Liege, Boulogne; Belgium, Ath; Dover; Tidworth; London; Watford; Dorking; Derby; Bushey; Neasden shed; Liverpool; Clyde; Sierra Leone, Freetown; South Africa, Cape Town; India, Bombay, Calcutta, Nagpur, Kidderpore, Darjeeling; Burma; Egypt, Port Said; Berwick; Kelso; St Boswells; Newcastle; Edinburgh; York; East Coast Main Line; Goswick; North Wylam; Newcastle Heaton shed; Newcastle Central station; Miller, David Walker Oral Histories 2002-03-27
booking and wages clerk; small station work, traffic, duties; d.ob. 1930-4-20, railway work c.1947-1950, Faringdon; Marlow; Jones, Monica Eileen Oral Histories 2001-09-26
clerical officer (CO5), (CO2), (CO3), (CO1), Special B Class; contracts manager; motive power depot; Chief Operating Manager's Office; civil defence work; special A class; General manager's Office, budgets; finance section; traffic economies; sundries division; parcels; staff relation problems; d.o.b. 1925-11-08, railway work: 1952-1990, France; Plymouth; Bristol; Bath Road; London Paddington; Reading; Park Royal; British Rail; Southern Region; National Freight Corporation; National Carriers; Rolph, Eric Arthur Oral Histories 2002-10-15
traffic management trainee; area freight assistant; station master; yard manager; customer services manager; suburban services manager; operations development manager; project management; changing practices in freight; air brakes; closure; view of management; London Transport links; reorganization; managing change; rail simulation; business management; d.o.b. 1954, railway work: 1976 - present (see record created date), Liverpool Street; Garforth, Leeds; Whitemoor Yard; Ely; Svern Tunnel Junction; Newport; Gloucester; Watford; Southern Region; South East Division; Network SouthEast (NSE); VST Comreco Rail Ltd. York; Barter, William Oral Histories 2002-12-03
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Chris Phillips; family life; sport; religion; railway community; changes in the community; working on diesel; change from steam to diesel; depots; changes in the railway industry; unions; instructor; management grades; Big Four; British Rail; privatisation; other industries; National Service; Second World War; retirement activity; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Dr Beeching; the Queen; Sheffield; Tinsley; Hull; Darnall; London; Doncaster; Conisbrough; Scarborough; Filey; Rotherham; Dunkirk; Woodhead; Paignton; Dronfield; Dronfield Woodhouse Phillips, Chris Oral Histories 2006-02-13
footplate, cleaner-driver; trade union official; Beeching closures; electrification;family, father, a cavalry officer, First World War; three sisters and a brother; death of brother, aged five; father, rejoined Army, Second World War; mother's job, a medical glass blower; leaving school, 1940; first job, a cleaner, King's Cross; Second World War, London Blitz; trade union, joining NUR; transfer to Neesden; active union member at branch level, NUR; one year's leave from British Rail, NUR studies; declined position with London School of Economics; interest in industrial trade unionism; LDC representative, depot level; joined Labour League of Youth Politics; National Executive member, NUR, 1962-64; involvement in Beeching rationalisation; fireman and driver, Neesden, London Marylebone; experience of steam electric traction; leaving railway to be full-time NUR official; involvement in Miners' Strike; Chairman, TUC Regional Committee; member of Economic Planning Council; preparing paper on railway electrification (MML); member of industrial tribunals; attending inquests on railway deaths; attending Ministry of Transport Inquiries; d.o.b. 1925-01-11, railway work 1941-1988, Kings Cross; Neesden. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Trench, Roy Henry Oral Histories 2000-11-20
lamp lad; train register boy; goods porter; porter/shunter; footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; diesel training; lodgings; dieselisation; electric locomotives; weather, snow, fog; Local Departmental Committee; industrial action, 1955, 1982; flexible rostering; trade union; pension; d.o.b. 1925-07-15, railway work: 1941-1990, London and North Eastern Railway (LNER); Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); Staddlethorpe; Pocklington; Bridlington; Holbeck; London; Glasgow; Birmingham; Carlisle; Settle-Carlisle; Pudsey; Morris, William (Bill) Oral Histories 2002-03-06
railway station catering; Selby station tea room, waitress, cleaner; duties; children's holiday trains; conditions, working hours; travel to work; Selby station, living in; Second Word War; d.o.b. 1910-11-01, railway work: c. 1930-1945 (?), Selby; Cawthray, Marjorie (nee Stead) Oral Histories 2002-05-24
engineering division, research department; testing methods; flange force; rail stress, bullhead rails, flat-bottomed rails; bridges; vehicle and track section; field trials; wagon derailment; test track; High Speed Trains (HST); security; police; d.o.b. 1911-03-08, railway work: 1946-1975, London Midland & Scottish Railway; Indian Railways; Northern Institute of Electronics, Manchester; Derby carriage and wagon works; Rugby test plant; Carlisle; Hulford; Elmhurst; Lichfield; Etwall test track; Littlewood, John Hartley Oral Histories 2002-03-04
