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Garlick, Gladys

2002-12-06
train timing; junior clerk; traffic apprentice; deputy head of section; timetable manager; passenger movements; terminal time measurement; timetables; childhood, background, school; starting work, train timing; special trains; traffic apprentice; Beeching; Norwich; Sheffield; resignalling at Leeds; passenger operating; Broomhouse Tunnel; football; modernisation; resignalling; punctuality; HSTs; Leeds; domestic circumstances; computing; closure of Leeds division, reorganisation; timetable manager; business involvement; reorganisation; freight timetabling; privatisation; d.o.b. 1940-05-09, railway work 1958-1998, Norwich; Sheffield; Leeds; York. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Wrottesley, David

2001-05-17
junior clerk; booking office; parcels; stationmaster; goods agent; traffic apprentice; traffic department, market research; area manager; planning department; traffic, sugar beet; Transmark; Eurostar; d.o.b. 1925-05-04, railway work 1940-1982, Kettering; Glendon; Rushton; Donnington; Llanbister Road; Peplow; Calvely; Whitchurch; Nottingham; Derby; Birmingham; Spon Lane; Soho; Paddington; Portsmouth; Waterloo; Bricklayers' Arms parcels depot; Victoria; Gatwick; Guildford; Melbourne, Australia; Iraq; Houston, USA; Hong Kong; Botswana; Zimbabwe. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Simmonds, Dennis

2001-07-06
footplate, bar lad, cleaner, fireman; leaving school, aged 14; starting work at a baker's; joining railway, bar lad, Buxton; progression through cleaner, passed cleaner; fireman, Buxton; experience working heavy trains over steep gradients; National Service; severe weather conditions, 1947; involvement in many different incidents; fireman in exhibit in National Railway Museum; member of Midland Railway Preservation Society; father's job, a driver, his railway experiences; d.o.b. 1929-07-21, railway work 1944-1953, Buxton. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Palfreyman, Brian

2000-11-13
apprentice fitter; railway cottages; 9 shop; 50 ton cranes; handrail work; conditions of work; working with asbestos, illness; 0-8-0 locomotives; trade union; d.o.b. 1925-02-12, railway work 1941-1946, Crewe Works; London Midland Scottish Railway (LMSR); 2.8346 x 3.1496 x .315 in.

Jones, Vera

2003-01-30
clerk; invoices, goods; passenger refunds; claims work; travelling ticket bureau; efficiency commissions; d.o.b. 1929-10-15, railway work 1929-1973, Nine Elms Goods Depot; Wimbledon Goods; Kingston Goods; Waterloo; Woking; Marylebone. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Greenfield, Harry Thomas (Tom)

2001-06-26
footplate; knocker-up; engine cleaner; mutual improvement class; firing; driver; Second World War; diesel and electric traction training; royal trains; Travelling Post Office; d.o.b. 1920, railway work 1938-1983, Kittybrewster; Fraserburgh; Macduff; York; Aberdeen; Ferryhill; Edinburgh; Haddington; Polmont; Usan; Longmorn; Montrose; Ballater; St Combs; Cairnie Junction;

Adam, John

2001-05-02
junior clerk; Royal Engineers; clerk; staff clerk; uniform stores; Revenue protection Section; conductor guards; Chief Ticket Inspector ER; Revenue Protection Officer; ticket machines; Terminals and Standards Manager; railway work 1952-1994, Middleton-in-Teesdale; Hull; Longmoor; Darlington; Middlesbrough; Tees Yard; Stooperdale; York; Leeds; Eastern Region;

Kidd, Dennis

2001-06-21
premium apprentice; drawing office; Motive Power Superintendent's training; signal department; Brakes Engineer; UIC; d.o.b. 1920-07-12, railway career 1936-1983, Swindon Works; London Underground. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Roberts, H. Peter

2001-06-25
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

2001-05-08
lad porter; carriage cleaner; porter signalman; break of service; signalling; traffic management and supervisory; station manager; Uniform, messenger; working hours; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), sick fund, pension arrangements; Sir Brian Robertson; methods of carriage cleaning, external, internal; fruit traffic, football specials; gas lamps; ticket issue arrangements; slate system for tickets; types of signalling, examination permissive/absolute working; crossing fire, discipline; local union representative, Local Departmental Committee (LDC); hours of working; incident with mail train; industrial action; railway correspondence course, steam lance; rail incidents, fatal, Diesel Multiple Units (DMU); withdrawal of InterCity line, line closure; Closure of offices; class 47 derailment, safety; staff relations; Sealink; Sir Peter Parker; ferry sailing supervisor; d.o.b. 1932-08-13, railway work: 1947-1992, New Holland, Dock, Pier; Doncaster; Hull; East Lincolnshire; Barrow Haven; Barton; Immingham West Junction; Oxmarsh Crossing; New Bridge Street; Suggetts Lane Signal Box; Grimsby; Cleethorpes; Barnetby West; Northorpe; Great Coates; Habrough; Pasture Street box; Sealink;

Guilliat, Fred

2002-08-07; 2002-08-17;
civil engineer; Transmark; UIC; investment and planning; Channel Tunnel, sectorisation; consultancy; d.o.b. 1935-03-09, railway work 1957-1990. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Alexander, Nicholas John Bennett

2001-08-14
traffic apprentice; Royal Engineers; assistant yard master; station master; chief trains clerk; area manager; marketing officer; passenger sales planning; passenger fares; chief passenger manager; retail manager; d.o.b. 1935-07-12, railway work 1958-1990, Barnsley; Wath Marshalling Yard; Darnall; Peterborough; Rotherham Yard; Spalding; Newcastle; Dundee; BRB Headquarters London;

Chamberlain, Alan

2001-04-17
clerk; Control; dieselisation; Area Manager; royal train; reorganisation; incidents; junior clerk, Wadebridge, 1951; clerk; Plymouth, fog operations; controller; Assistant Station Master; Reading; steam/diesel transition; weather; GW/GC joint line; Southall; Reading; staff relations; safety; Reading; fatalities; Westbury; Area Manager; Shenfield; Area Manager, Waterloo; Lord Mountbatten's funeral; royal train; newspaper traffic; Waterloo headquarters; two-tier reorganisation; Clapham accident, inquiry; Hidden Report; consultancy, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Singapore, New Zealand; d.o.b. 1936-07-26 railway work 1951-1999. Wadebridge; Plymouth; Reading; Shenfield; Waterloo; Clapham. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Adams, Trevor G.

2000-08-04
booking office clerk; motive power depot clerk; traffic apprentice; supervisor; grant aid statistical analysis; coaching and rolling stock assistant; carriage maintenance manager; d.o.b. 1938, railway work 1955-1994, Edinburgh; Newington; Duddingston; East Fortune; Shotts; Morningside Road; Waterloo Place; Craiglockhart; Waverley; Polmont; Dalry Road; Glasgow; Greenock. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

MacLean, A.A. (Sandy)

2001-07-04
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.

2001-04-19; 2001-04-26;
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

2003-04-14
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
footplate; 10/-6 wagon lock greaser ambulance train, posted letter for American soldier; drain axles; wheel tapper; oil traffic, 56 road, Ripple Lane; 600,000 staff on railway; d.o.b. 1926-12-25, railway work 1941-1991. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Pattison, George

2001-05-31
junior clerk; assistant yard master; traffic apprentice; assistant stationmaster; stationmaster; depot manager; goods traffic; cartage; accounts; sundries division; road traffic; National Carriers Ltd; Freightliners; mail order; security; newspaper distribution; operations manager; mechanised handling; National Freight Carriers; Lynx Express; privatisation; director of quality; d.o.b. 1936-01-31, railway work: 1951-1967, left road freight business: 1990, National Carriers Ltd; Freightliners; National Freight Carriers; Lynx Express; Woolworths; Transport Salaried Staff Association; Marks & Spencer; British Railways Engineering Ltd; Great Universal Stores; Gratton; freeman; White Arrow; Post Office; Rail Express Parcels; International Publishing Corporation; National Union of Railwaymen; Initial Services; London Zoo; TNT; United Carriers; Hunslet, Leeds; Healey Mills, Leeds; Laisterdyke; Smeeton; Neville Hill; Melton Mowbray; Blackburn; Burnley; Manchester; Leicester; Hull; York; London; Silvertown depot; Leeds; High Wycombe; Birmingham; Blackpool; Belfast;

Oliver, Cyril

2002-07-03; 2002-07-24;
footplate; fireman; driver; train crew inspector; Area Signals Inspector; Acting Operations Manager; West Coast Main Line; 1925-07-23, railway work 1942-1984, Bury; Manchester Lonsight; Watford; Bletchley. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Walker, Joseph

2001-05-15
d.o.b. 1937-06-29 railway work c.1952-1981

Guiel, William Edward

2001-09-15
fitter; supervisor; depot engineer; traction rolling stock engineer; terminal support engineer; assistant rolling stock engineer; production engineer; freight; technical traction riding inspector; reorganisations; dieselisation; demarcation between grades; breakdown crane; incentive bonus scheme; Pullman cars; 1984-85 miners' strike; d.o.b. 1935-11-15, railway work 1966-1993, Rotherham Technical College; Tinsley; Redditch, Manchester; Ollerton; Hull Botanic Gardens; Sheffield; Wath; Derby; Darnall; Channel Tunnel;

Phillips, Christopher John

2001-10-29
Oral history interview with Trevor Davies recorded and conducted by Robert Aitchison on 28 April 2004 as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration 24 minutes 34 seconds. Leaving school, joining drawing office at Shildon railway works, start apprenticeship in pattern shop, making own patterns; conscription to parachute regiments for 2 years [00:05:00]; meeting new apprentice John Dowson; introduction of epoxy resins; repair to Timothy Hackworth statue; repair of mahogany base of cup won by West Auckland in footballs first World Cup [00:10:00]; closure of Shildon railway works, parade; nationalisation of railways; impact of Shildon works closure on town, mood, good working condition [00:15:00]; good machinery, merry-go-round wagons, moved to brick works [00:20:00:00]; Shildon works good management; social life in Shildon, football club, successful children [00:24:34] [end of interview]

Trevor Davies interviewed by Robert Aitchison

2004-04-28
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

2001-05-24
railway family; Second World War; lost property; station work; stationhouse; railway community; nationalisation; traffic apprentice; travelling inspector; special investigations; rolling stock; reorganisation, divisions; staff policy; modernisation, West Coast Main Line; electrification; East Coast Main Line; shipping division; chief passenger manager; sectorisation, business management; disability provision; investment panel; promotion of Scotland; auditors; d.o.b. 1932, railway work: 1958-1987, London Midland Region; Eastern Region; Scottish Region; Great North Eastern Railway (GNER); Caledonian Steam Packet Company; New Cumnock; Cassillis; Ayr; Dunlop; Aspatria; Dumfries; Stranraer; Carlisle; Dundee; Larne; Belfast; Loch Ryan; Inverness; Edinburgh; Glasgow;

Gibson, Fergus

2002-01-29
apprentice; electrical and mechanical engineering; locomotives; family; school; Cambridge University; English Electric Company; apprenticeship, piecework; apprenticeship, hours; Edge Hill Depot, Liverpool; locomotives; shedmasters; dieselisation; attitude; Sudan; conditions, weather; locomotive maintenance; illness; Kenya 1961-1963, load testing; diesel locomotives; conditions, high altitude; 1963, London, Finsbury Park and Stratford depots; EEC representative; locomotives Class 1-5, Deltic locomotives; manufacturer representatives; Crewe 100 AR6 locomotives; Roy Kelly; commissioning AR6s; Crewe electric traction depot; working practice; Doncaster Works staff; Walter Jarrett, engineer; Mr S.B. Warder, BRB Electrical Engineer; demonstrating electric locomotives; Shugborough Tunnel; attitude; test runs; incident in Sudan; repairs to AR6 locomotives; marriage; nose-suspended traction motors; electrification stock; attitude; marriage; Crewe; West Coast mainline; success of A6 locomotives; EEC-BR locomotive development collaboration; sales; contracts; 1968-1969 GEC, EEC, AEI; voluntary redundancy; SKF, different work practices; producing water jet boats; Westinghouse Co. 1974; Jubilee Line experimental tube train; Luke Marsden-Smedley, move to Hong Kong, 1977; house market, reaction of wife to move abroad; Hong Kong Mass Transit Corporation; rolling stock standards, Electric Multiple Units (EMU); Electrical Engineer; Design manager; GEC Traction, 1983; Singapore Metro, Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer; redundancy; wife's reaction; Stuart Scott, project director; responsibilities; comparison with Hong Kong; platform edge doors; energy conservation; railway architecture; London Underground, 1989; demise of engineering role; innovation; privatisation; retirement; Vintage Engineering Ltd; railway preservation. d.o.b. 1934-08-27, railway work 1950-1990s, Edge Hill; Sudan; Kenya; London; Stratford; Crewe; Hong Kong; Singapore; West Coast Mainline. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Vint, John

2000-06-01
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-
footplate, cleaner; fireman; Second World War work conditions; trade unions, ASLEF; mutual improvement class instructor; dieselisation; d.o.b. 1927-01-29, railway work 1943-1992, Darnall; Woodhead tunnel; Kentish Town hostel; Doncaster Carr locomotive depot;

Whitehead, Kenneth

2001-11-27
draughtsman; drawing office; surveys; permanent way; Royal Engineers; civil engineering; Arthur Dean; tampers; payment by results; canteen facilities; work study; operating development; staff recruitment; branch line investigations, Barbara Castle; Br Beeching; reorganisations; Woking Staff College; freight; TOPS; planning systems; trade unions; Freightliner; computerisation; financial control; Price Waterhouse investigation; BRB management style; business sector management; Transaid; d.o.b. 1931-11-16, railway work 1948-1987, Bradford; Barnsley; Farnborough; Germany; Wakefield; Harrogate; York; Hull; Newcastle; Carlisle; Alston; Robin Hood's Bay; London; Watford; Stratford; Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa;

Linney, Peter

2001-03-07
management trainee; Assistant Area Manager; Area Terminals Manager; Area Operations Manager; coal & mineral marketing; Area Manager; regional politics, Wales; privatisation; d.o.b. 1953, railway work 1975-2001, Dewsbury; Fort William; Mount Florida; Doncaster; Leicester; Nottingham; Cardiff; Thames & Chiltern; Thames Valley; Sweden;

McDonald, Roger

2001-02-26
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
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
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
engineering apprentice; Derby Carriage & Wagon Works; LMS Research Department; British Rail Research Department; observer (technical assistant); Head of Security; childhood; family; school; apprenticeship; mechanical engineering degree; Derby Technical College, day release training, 1940; LMS Research Department; LMS Research Department during Second World War; Loach; Newberry; Hoskins; Warlow-Davies; Baldwin; origin of jobs; staff relations; stress concentrations; staff structure in Research Department; promotion; effect of nationalisation; working conditions; collaboration between research laboratories of other former railway companies; career progress; hobbies; degree in electrical engineering; promotion, John Littlewood; specialisation in security, from c. 1960; Chief Constable of British Transport Police; Henry Pearce; interlocking doors; Head of Security Section, c.1970; Railway Pension Fund Art Collection; asbestos, reaction to risk; tobacco freight security; tobacco freight; locks on vans; patents; fiddling on the ferry; radiator fire, Birmingham New Street; withdrawl of British Transport finance from Research Department security work; retirement, 1982; interests family; daughters; experiences, visibility tests, Collingham; viaducts; water balance on canal, Ruabon; test locomotives. d.o.b. 1919-07-04, railway work 1935-1982, London; Hastings; Lewisham;

Maskery, Cyril

2000-11-15
railway family; district civil engineers' drawing office; Second World War; Railway Home Guard; signal and telegraph department, Railway Executive Headquarters; automatic train control equipment; Hudd system; Automatic Warning System; d.o.b. 1924-02-23, railway work 1941-1950s, Middlesbrough; York; Ipswich; Leeds; Newcastle; Dunston; East Anglia; Harwich; Felixstowe; Catterick; India, North West Frontier; Bow; Brighton Line; Harrow;

Middleton, Peter

2001-10-23
van boy; porter; van driver; d.o.b. 1910-06-08, railway work 1925-1975, Newport; Crumlin High Level; Paignton; Weston-super-Mare; Cwm; Hayes; Harlington; London Paddington;

Scadden,George Thomas

2001-08-30
clerk; management trainee; assistant area manager; trains invetigator; chief clerk; station/traffic manager; area parcels manager; human resources manager; lodgings and travel; rostering; tickets; scrapping of steam locomotives; fare structures, manual; sugar beet, supply of wagons; Midland Mainline, performance; third rail, direct current; incidents; petrol tank and suicide; product change; privatision; human resources training; d.o.b. 1944-08-13, railway work 1966-1995, Cheltenham; Knottingley; Healey Mills; York Headquarters; Ipswich; Burry; Richmond; Hounslow; Ipswich; Staines; Feltham; Brussels; Sheffield; Glossop; Sheffield; Crewe; Westinhouse Brake and Signal company; Durham University; British Rail Board (BRB); London Underground Limited (LUL); British Rail (BR); Saga; Golden Rail; St Edmind's sugar beet; National Cash Registers (NCR); Red Star Parcels; International Red Star; Euston Parcels Group; Red Express;

Tyrrell, John Campbell

2002-02-18
canteen attendant; d.o.b. 1925-09-21, railway work 1943-1947, Redhill

Cox, Joan May

2001-08-29
Oral history interview with Oliver Lockwood recorded and conducted by Robert Aitchison on 27 May 2004 as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 23 minutes 44 seconds. Cinema’s in Shildon; films shown; poverty; bike for £3-17-6; film stars of the time; [00:05:00] Musicals seen in Newcastle; father had job at Shildon railway works; no paper but school used slates; suit for 8 guineas; father went to war, Second World War; [00:10:00] first TV in 1954 for £100; mortgage on house; first car Hillman Minx [00:15:00 ] still driving aged 80; radio shows listened to; black and white minstrels [00:20:00] 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary, cavalcade, engines [00:23:44] [end of interview]

Oliver Lockwood interviewed by Robert Aitchison

2004-05-27
trade union; local departmental committees; ASLEF General Secretary; reason for being active, Nine Elms Depot, Army King Regulations; 1947 call up, driving by 24th birthday; 1963, LDC Waterloo; 1973, Executive Committee of ASLEF; 1981 President; 1984 District Officer; 1992 Assistant General Secretary; 1994 General Secretary; unofficial acts, Waterloo; LDC duties; rostering, complaints; discipline; work is rule; General Secretary RW Buckton; Assistant General Secretary Don Pullen; Executive Committee sessions; Marsham Street; trade union support; procedure for dealing with cases; 8 hour day dispute; dispute over letter; £10.00 contribution is Signals passed At Danger (SPAD) report; selling railway houses; Assistant General Secretary duties; General Secretary; social life; d.o.b. 1929-01-09, railway work 1944-1994. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Fullick, Derrick Frank

2001-06-02
London Passenger Transport Board; Royal Engineers, Second World War; BTC; management, Assistant GM and General Manager SR; electrification; modernisation; dieselisation; political relationships; Beeching closures; BRHQ; incidents; BRB; Childhood; First World War, Buckingham Palace; father, Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna MP, Chairman of Midland Bank; school, Eton College; university, Trinity College, Cambridge; influence of father on career choice, LPTB; John Cliff, T&GWU; starting work; London Transport Act; training; road transport scheme; Lord Ashfield; Deputy Chairman Pick; d.o.b. 1911-02-16, railway work 1934-1976, London; Hastings; Lewisham. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

McKenna, David CBE

2000-11-09
clerk; military signalling; telegraph operator; d.o.b.1921-07-00, railway work 1943-1947, Kirkcaldy; Thornton. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Forrester, Helen Elizabeth (Betty)

2001-07-13
lad porter; shunter; guard; yard inspector; station supervisor; railway lodgers; Beeching; First Aid; social activities; d.o.b 1923-10-01, railway work 1941-1988, Boston; Nottingham; Partney;

Borman, Sydney John

2001-09-18
clerk, port shiping, operating; chief clerk (class 4); assistant controller (class 5); passenger trains clerk (class 1); MS2 operations officer; railway control; army train operation; freight train group returns; nationalisation 1948; Sir Henry Johnson, Gerry Fiennes, W.G. Thorpe, John Bonham-Carter, proteges of George Docking; crisis management; shift work; Certificate in Railway Economics and Operations; T.B. Hare; importance of control in wartime; location and buildings; modernization; relief controller; locomotive controller responsibilities; section controllers description; contiguous districts; shifts; turn arounds; John Willie Dedman; signalling and accidents section; district from division; timetable changes; diesel depot; royal journey; new traffic organisation; rationalisation; merger; electrification; connecting services; train planning work; wagonload traffic; pay-train; closure; block trains; soft fruit, sugarbeet, milk, fish traffic; role and work of operations officer; bomb scares; strikes; sectional councils; Jimmy Knapp; bottlenecks; officer's mess; Train Planning Officer; Channel Tunnel, pathing; Sir Robert Reid; d.o.b. 1926-08-19., railway work 1942 to 1982., Cambridge, station, control, diesel depot; Liverpool Street; Norwich; Nottingham London Road; Doncaster; Gorton Works; Dunkinfield Works; Bordon; Liss; Liverpool; Town Green; Aughton; Princes Dock; Manchester; Coldhams Lane; Whitemoor, up yard; Temple Mills; Norwood Yard; Sudbury; Haverhill; Fenchurch street; Bethnal Green; York; Hamilton House; Tilbury; Basildon; Broad Street; Waterloo; Derby; Crewe; Watford; Woking; Ilford; Longmoor Military Railway; Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway; Great Eastern Choral Society; Felixstowe Dock & Railway Company; London Tilbury & Southend Line; Southern Region; British Railways Board (BRB); London North Eastern Railway (Southern Region); (LNER); BR, Eastern Region; BR, Southern Region; British Transport Staff College

Unwin, Raymond

2002-12-05
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

2001-11-29
Carriage & Wagon Works; premium apprentice; footplate, fireman, driver; works management; Deputy Divisional Mechanical Engineer; Traction Maintenance Engineer; derailments; Tyneside Metro; Transmark; Shildon 150; works closures; d.o.b 1922-05-04, railway work 1939-1984, Darlington; Inverurie; Shildon; Newcastle; York; London North Eastern Railway (LNER). 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Reeves, Derek

2000-10-17
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
carriage and wagon depot; merry-go-round depot; wagon repairer; fitter; chargehand; relief supervisor; depot supervisor; work conditions; travel privileges; medical problems; training; changing working practices; planning; staff attendance; vehicle inspections; industrial action; health and safety; water pollution; privatisation; depot closure; d.o.b. 1944-11-09, railway work: 1968-1996, Wisconsin Railways; Toton; Burton-on-Trent; Derby; York; Motherwell;

Brooksby, Robert Anthony (Tony)

2002-01-18
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