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Garlick, Gladys

Garlick, Gladys

2002-12-06
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
cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; second man; passed second man; driver; acting traction inspector; traction inspector; head of driver training; chief traction inspector; traincrew assistant; traincrew manager; traction and driving manager; medical examination; Ishikara colour-perception; Edridge Green Lantern; cleaner's lobby weaver plant; firing duty requirements; no formal instruction, work practice; cylinder drain cocks; compressed air lances, misuse, accidents; accomodation problems; massive drive shaft; water tower; cotton waste; Fireman's course; management of fire, saftey on the line; first firing shift; lack of health and safety; fire iron; empty carriage working; female engine cleaners; cleaning fire; short passenger working; mutual improvement classes; closure of depot; electric and diesel methods; new types of locomotives; blocked train; use of short circuit bar; royal train; a/c current locomotives; standarised teaching modules; signal school; hidden routes; Advanced Passenger Train (APT); different types of diesel and electric locomotive; driver training; driver only working; High speed trains (HST); fatal collision; turntabl, pits, steam specials; Dutchess of Hamilton; relationships with foreign train companies; TGV; Malcolm Southgate; Trans-Manche super train, driving cab design, PS1, PS2, first team in France; recruitment of drivers, criteria, profiles; D4 T1-16 driving activites, EPS; union, abandoning seniority; Psychometric tests, language ability; start date May 1993; female drivers, crew; d.o.b.1946-05-14, railway work 1961-2000, Brixton; Nine Elms Depot; Guildford Training School; Basingstoke and Salisbury; Waterloo; Japan; Euston, Carlow Street; Bedford-St Pancras; Wembley; Marylebone; Grove; Deepdene; Canterbury; France; Paris; West Coast Mainline, London Midland Region (LMR); London Transport; Terence Cuneo; London Fire Brigade; SCNF; SCNB; Eurostar; Rail News; Alstrom; British Rail Board (BRB);

Bassett, Philip Edmund

2002-11-22
messenger girl; clerk, wages office, locomotive works; Railway Savings Bank; accounting; introduction of computers; rules on marriage; computer operator; equal pay; branch treasurer, Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA); Derby Technical Centre; British Railways Engineering Ltd (BREL); Sectional Council; British Railways Board; Management Staff Joint Council; TSSA executive committee member; TSSA Treasurer; TSSA President (first woman in this position); redundancy; privatisation; d.o.b. 1933-06-02, railway work: 1948-1997, London Midland Railway (LMR); Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA); British Railways Engineering Ltd (BREL); Virgin; Derby Wagon works; Derby Technical Centre;

Hanks, Brenda

2002-08-06
immigrant worker, emigrated from Barbados to UK; London Underground; guard training; porter; shifts; road learning; carriage cleaning foreman; electrification; leading railman; women carriage cleaners; managing staff; Railway Mission; attitude to railway; trade union; Local Departmental Committee; bonus scheme; work study; chief supervisor; racism; promotion of ethnic minority workers; customer care; suicides; camaraderie; d.o.b. 1940-09-29, railway work: 1963-1980, Barbados; Newton Abbot, Devon; London; Rickmansworth; Manchester Piccadilly; Manchester Victoria; Crewe; Macclesfield; Alderley Edge; Buxton; Longsight; London Euston; Stockport;

Taylor, Neville Patrick (Pat)

2002-05-23
research and development; head of vehicle dynamics; head of advanced projects; director of advanced projects; director of research laboratories; director of engineering research and development; two-axle wagons; civil and mechanical engineering conflict; freight vehicles; railbus; revenue; investment; funding; Advanced Passenger Train (APT); Advanced Passenger Train-Experimental (APT-E); High Speed Train (HST); design; test track; trade union opposition; electrification; Maglev; Advanced Multiple Unit; mechanised track maintenance; signalling warning systems; d.o.b. 1929-03-29, railway work: 1962-1989, Associated Society of Locoomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); British Transport Commission; English Electric Company; British Leyland; InterCity; Ruston; Turbomeca; Gloucester Design Services; Metro Cammell; Hawker Syddeley Dynamics; Dowty; Houchins; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); General Electric Company; Tracked Hovercraft Ltd; Plasser; Thaurer; Westinghouse; Derby; East Coast Main Line; West Coast Main Line; Melton Mowbray; Nottingham; Old Dalby; Duffield; Derby locomotive works; London St Pancras; Leicester; Glasgow; Manchester; Liverpool; Erith; Scotland; East Anglia;

Wickens, Alan Herbert

2002-03-22
Oral history interview with Colin Howson conducted and recorded by Robert Aitchison on 21 April 2004, as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration 15 minutes 30 seconds. Born in Bishop Auckland in 1948; PE teacher training Leeds college; childhood in Bishop Auckland; school and college; starting work Sunderland; sports in Shildon, British Rail Football club, boxing; 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary, cavalcade, memories of smell and noise; railway walks in Shildon area; closure of Shildon railway works; mining; politics in Shildon area.

Colin Howson interviewed by Robert Aitchison

2004-04-21
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
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
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

2002-04-29
chart designer; press desk assistant; feature writer; BRB Headquarters; sub-editor, Railnews; editorial executive, Business in the Community; public relations officer, Business in the Community; editor, Bylines, BR Community Unit; BT Film Unit; GW operatic society; BR Chairmen; d.o.b. (Information withheld), railway work 1960-1983, BRB Headquarters; Watford; Paddington; Bristol; GW Royal Hotel; Sealink;

Heckler, Frances Edith

2001-10-24
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-
soil analyst; projects officer; soil mechanics laboritory; (seven disks - see related items section for synopsis). d.o.b. 1939-10, railway work: 1961-1996

Heath, Donald

2002-10-08
Oral history interview with John Tomlin recorded and conducted by Robert Aitchison on 23 April 2004 as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration 50 minutes 37 seconds. Early life; Shildon railway works; messenger boy; fitter; York carriage works; Tomlin Street; father's drawing of a locomotive; visit to India; Railway Institute; Shildon works band; Italian prisoners of war; World jamboreee of scouts; practical jokes; accidents and fatality; brake assembly; 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary, cavalcade

John Tomlin interviewed by Robert Aitchison

2004-04-23
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
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
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

2002-05-31
goods depot; traffic; traffic apprenticeship scheme; divisional office clerk; marketing; budgeting; freight; reorganisation; freight marketing, aggregates; business customers; TOPS; computerisation; trade unions, TSSA; management staff joint council; privatisation; d.o.b. 1932-08-14, railway work 1948-1988, Paddington; Reading; BRB headquarters;

Cartwright, Patrick Francis

2001-11-03
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
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
research department; freight vehicle suspension; vehicle steering; Advanced passenger Train (Experimental) (APT-E); group standards; privatisation; InterCity engineer; pantograph work; d.o.b. 1947-09, railway work 1947-c.1990, Derby;

Boocock, David

2001-12-13
Associated with Public Transport from appointment as Principal Finance Officer for Lothian Regional Council in 1975; appointed as Director of Finance at South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in 1979; retired as Director General of South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in 1998; detailed description of the involvement of the PTEs in the funding of the local rail networks; the role of the Passenger Transport Executive Group and the restructuring of the Rail Industry; Service Quality Regimes; the Franchising Process;

Ritchie, Alex

2002-05-19
porter; head shunter; passenger guard; stationmaster; parcels clerk; station inspector; assistant station master; assistant manager; learned English from railway people; Beeching closures; perks; area management; train incident; discrimination; Queen Mother; interview experience; multi-racial; accommodation; training; working conditions; d.o.b. 1910-01-01, railway work 1957-1989, Kashmir; Kircaldy; Thornton Junction; Kinbrace; Glasgow, Central; Herne Hill; Woolwich; Liverpool; Broadstairs;

Ayub, Mohammed

2003-01-16
footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; firing instructor; traction inspector; senior traction inspector; train crew manager; conditions, shifts, mess; mutual improvement class; trade union; Local Departmental Committee; rivalry; single manning; driver training, Deltic, HST; steam-diesel comparison; d.o.b. 1924-01-13, railway work: 1940-1980s, Asociated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Fireman (ASLEF; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); Trades Union Congress; Gateshead; London King's Cross; Newcastle; York; Stoke Tunnel Barnford; Kentish Town hostel; Edinburgh; Skelton; Bensham; Haydon Bridge; Gascoigne Wood; Bardon Mill; Blyth coal staithes; Tyneside Metro; Sheffield;

Charlton, James Reginald (Reg)

2002-06-27
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
fitters work; loco shed master; technical assistant; assistant district power superintendent; traction running officer; subjects, locomotive workshops and drawing office; military railway operating training; 192 Railway Operating Company;banking engines; Italian locomotives; railway build up, d-day, 168 railway workshop company, repair of steam locomotives; conversion of captured German locomotive from coal to oil burning; wheel lathes; 'Medloc' troop train; locomotive casualties; preparing gradient profiles, eastern region; releif of Acting shed manager; break down of old regions, promotions between regions; differing workshop conditions; Mr Frampton; Dick Hardy; L.P. Parker's shed masters' meetings; cleaning up depots; railway estate department; burst boiler tubes, hard water, treatment systems, freight workings, Barrington-Ward scheme; B1 class; hand coaling; 12 coach trains; briquette treatment tubes, increased performance; K3 locomotives; Type 2 diesels, effectiveness, closure of steam sheds; Norman Porter; new Diesel Multiple Units (DMU); Class 37, 40, reliability, responsibility foir footplate staff; High Speed trains (HST); ASLEF; museum and steam preservation activity; d.o.b. 1919-10-06, railway work: 1938-1990s, Midland Min Line; Derby; Doncaster, Carr running shed; Gerrards Cross; Brancepeth; Newark; Longmoor; Italy; Dover; Liverpool Street; King's Cross; Leeds; Leicester central; Hatfield; Hitchen; Woodford Halse; Annesley; Immingham; Banbury; Neasden; Gorton; Lincoln; Middlesborough; Wakefield; Hammerton Street; York; Alnwick; Shildon; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); War Office; London Midland Scottish; Great central; National Coal Board (NCB); Central Electricity Generating Board (GEGB); Urwick Orr management consultants; National Railway Museum (NRM); Clapham Museum; Science Museum; Institute of Mechanical Engineers; Railtrack; Friends of the National Railway Museum (FNRM); First North Western;

Peck, John William

2002-08-28
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, staff section, (CO4) stock control; accounts section head; admin & finance assistant to Deputy Chief Executive; entrance examinations; District Engineers Office running powers, company trains; workshops, type of work; addressographs; nationalisation; types of materials in storage, system of charging; stock records; supervisor relations; Direct Labour Organisation (DLO) backlog following Second World War; clerk's duties; modernisation & electrification; salaries; reorganisation of civil engineer department; reconciliation of practice; joint divisional Divisional staff sections; computerisation; Daily Work Returns; time sheets; Chief Permanent Way Inspector; railway traditions; British Rail Board Community Unit; budgets, priorities, amounts available during 1980s; decline of traditional outside staff trades; advances in engineering technology; jointed, continously welded rail (CWR); increase of administration; battery powered lights in trackside warning boards; disadvantages of gas; d.o.b. 1930-09-01, railway work: 1945-1990, Walsall; Crewe; Birmingham; Wolverhampton; London Midland Region; Walsall Enterprise Agency;

Canning, Philip

2002-08-29
station master/goods agent; rationalisation assistant; station manager; environment officer; Transmark project; marketing services manager; operational research; accident prevention; passenger officer/manager; projects; advertising project member; graduate traffic apprentice; Blue Streak; speeds; staff numbers; railway operation, recruitment; wagon usage; route knowledge; Continuous Progress Control (CPC); Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); British Rail HQ; Beeching report; service withdrawals; Passenger Transport Authority (PTA); Passenger Transport Executive PTE); industrial relations; Accident Prevention Service; safety issues; 1968 Hixon disaster; high visibilty vest introduction; motive power depots; collision; 1974 Transport Act; Peter Parker; buildings; All purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); fare reeductions; loyalty card; British Transport Advertising (BTA); Bob Reid; David Aston; John Nunneley (BTA chairman); marketing activity; advertising; privatisation; d.o.b. 1932-02-16, railway work: 1956-1987, Cumberland; Glossop; Derbyshire; Belmont; Cockermouth; Chinley junction; London St Pancras-Manchester; Marylebone; Liverpool; Stoke-on-Trent; Carnaevon; Crewe; Glasgow; Euston; Staffordshire; Birmingham-Walsall; Flint; Berkhampstead; Bedfordshire; Forth Bridge; British Rail; London Midland Region; English Electric; Transmark; World Bank; British Transport Advertising; National Bus company; Docks board; Waterways Board; London Transport; TUPE; recording made at home of interviewee

Aston, David

2002-10-09
shorthand typist; personal typist; secretary; general clerk; administrator; finance assisitant (MS1) (MS2) (MS4); finance manager; ambulance section; difficulties, ambitions, contactrs; Dr Spindall, bridge engineer; background to appointment; first day at work; Mr A. Paterson, Chief Civil Engineer, structure of department, duties, computerisation of equations; night school; ultra sonic rail testing train, german connection and visit, commissioning off the train; Carole's responsibilities and team; lack of facilities for women; procedures, dealing with and identifying faults; spot checks; professional and technical grades; research and development division, Dr K.H. Spring; overseas staff liaison; dispersal of London staff, closure; mundane duties; channel tunnel scection; John Mackie, Geraldine Euell; finance work; regrouping; dedicated finance system; Ross Furby appointment, irony; lack of qualifications; separate finance section; upgrade; Alan Gardiner first chief accountant; bill payments; duties and responsibilities; down-sizing; systems change; harrassment; forcibly removed; career uncertainty; modernization; drug screening; D3 T1-7 transfer from paper to computer, passwords; privatisation; promotion MS4; d.o.b. Not made available. Railway work 1960 to 1995. Newton Heath; Euston; Manchester; St Pancras; Derby; Old Dalby Test Track; Utrecht; Muswell Hill; Paddington; Brighton; Victoria; Euston House; Nottingham Computer Centre; London Midland Region (LMR); Kraut Kramer; British Rail (BR); Thames Water; British Rail International (BRI); European Rail Traffic Accounts (ERTAC); Occupational Health Service (OHS); Railtrack;

Brown, Carol

2003-01-11
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

2002-05-06
manager's clerk; interview; description of hotel; clientel; new manager; office activity; the chef; visits to railway works; general strike; working conditions; accomodation, staff house; ordering stock, making up wages, checking bills; Second World War, attitude; interview by police; alien with enemy connections; local peace society; tribunals; relationship with manager; method of instant dismissal; result of career change; d.o.b. 1904-04-09, railway work 1926-1940, Germany; Liverpool; New York; London; Crewe Works; Rugby Refreshment Rooms; Crewe Arms Hotel; London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMSR), police;

Huber, Georgina (Miss)

2003-01-28
booking office clerk; interview; female worker experiment; shift times; conditions of work; influx of weekly tickets; description of office; war work call up; working in a mans world; clipping tickets; railwaymen always gentlemen; d.o.b.1920-06-26, railway work 1937-1942, Hanley; Derby; Fenton; Swinerton; London Midland & Scottish; Securicor;

Stretch, Edith

2003-01-31
driver instruction on HST125; mutual improvement classes; work standards; driving qualification; Baby Deltics; High Speed Train; East Coast Mainline; driver instructors; steam plough; death of mother; Second World War, 2148 Thunderleigh; shunting; top gang; driver test; passing signals at danger; driver test; work standards; AWS; Black Friday; ATC; water; boat trains, Tilbury; Plaistow, Joe Brown; cooking eggs on shovel; MIC class; 8C King's Cross. d.o.b. 1928-04-11. railway work 1943-1980s. Fenchurch Street; Kings Cross; Cambridge.

D'Ath, Kenneth Malcolm

2000-08-01
clerk, booking, goods, reservation; travel centre shift manager; medical and written exams; starting work at 15; Edmonson ticket system; banking cash; discipline; blank cards; paybills; drawing cash, making up & issue of pay packets; pigeon traffic; signalling exam; sleeper reservations; D2 T1-7 seat reservation; demolition; AEG Multiprinter; IATA licence; car ferry; Golden Rail, Motorail, tickets; takings; credit cards, virtues/drawbacks; All Purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); reorganisation; merging of reservations and booking; interchangeable staff; security alerts; d.o.b. 1939-05-03, railway career 1954-1995, Barford North; Kimberley; Euston Old Station, New Station;

Bratton, William, (Bill)

2003-02-19
nationalisation; engine cleaner; passed fireman; relief running foreman; firing instructor; training school instructor; mutual improvement class; driver conversion; inspector; hostel; High Speed Trains (HST); stone traffic; training inspectors; Advanced Train Protection (ATP); Royal Train; track testing; investigations; d.o.b. 1934-05-10, railway work: 1950-1994, Southern Region; Western Region; General Motors; Swindon; Dover; Nine Elms; Darlington; Woking; Waterloo; London Paddington; Westbury training centre; Derby school of transport; Brussels, Belgium; Severn Valley Railway;

Barrett, John

2002-02-27
goods office clerk; examinations; superannuation; savings bank; Provident Mutual insurance; relief clerk; lodging; pigeon traffic; miners' gala; pay; docks; farmers; training; staff relations; Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA); d.o.b. 1929-03-03, railway work: 1945-1958, London & North Eastern Railway; Eaglescliffe; York; Middlesbrough; Thirsk; Durham; Hawes; Whitby; Richmond; Darlington; Saltburn; Brotton; Northallerton; Guisborough; Stockton-Durham line; Bishop Auckland; Stokesley;

Crosby, Sheila

2002-02-12
draughtsman; technical assistant; engineering assistant; assistant district engineer; permanent way assistant; assisitant divisional civil engineer; divisional civil engineer; terratorial engineer; prefabricated track; curved track calculations; mileposts; relationships within department; electrification; permanent way inspectorate; track marking exercise; prize lengths; track profiles, bridge raising, reconstruction; Ordnance Survey Benchmarks; transition from steam to electric traction; ballast train working; explosives; conditions, duties; derailment; high speed junction; various projects described; commuter traffic; promotion; East Coast Main Line (ECML); improved standards, level crossings; routes described; 100 ton bogie wagons; team described; industrial relations, comparison between regions; bomb incident; challenges of new job; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); high-speed, electrification surveys; Selby diversion, difficulties, project finance and responsibilities; first train over the diversion; value of electrification project; theft of overhead equipment; resignalling; 140 mph running; class 91; electrification; First Aid Committee, York; d.o.b. 1928-08-27, railway work 1954-1989, Northhampton Castle Station; Northampton Marshalling Yard; Peterborough; Blisworth; West Coast Mainline; Bedford; Glenford Junction; Long Buckby; Watford; Ribblehead; Preston; Settle & Carlisle; Lake Windemere; Low Gill; Clapham, Yorkshire; Lancaster & Morecambe; Doncaster; York; Shaftholme Junction; Gainsborough; Newark; Marshgate Works Depot; Bawtry; Newcastle; Monkseaton; King Edward Bridge; Leeds; British Rail (BR); London Midland Region; Crewe Alexandra Football Club; Derby School of Transport; National Coal Board (NCB); British Railways Board (BRB); Swiss Federal Railways; Eastern Region;

Payne, Philip

2003-01-24
engineer; BR research department; advanced projects group; Advanced Passenger Train-Experimental; Advanced Passenger Train-Prototype; tilting train systems; industrial action over single seat in APT-E; design; funding; High Speed Freight Vehicle; portable ticket issuing machines; General Electric Company; Class 91 locomotive; Docklands Light Railway; Maglev; test track; d.o.b. 1935-01-22, railway work: 1966-1992, BR Western Region; Derby railway technical centre; Derby carriage and wagon works; St Pancras; Leicester; Dover; National Railway Museum, York; Woodhead tunnel; Trafford Park; Birmingham airport;

Newman, Michael

2002-01-21
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

2002-03-27
civil engineering apprentice; junior technical officer; assistant area civil engineer; area assistant permanent way engineer; assistant divisional engineer; divisional civil engineer; assistant chief civil engineer; chief civil engineer; deputy general manager; general manager; director of civil engineering, BRB: director of technical standards; director, Regional Railways; managing director, infrastructure services; Railway Heritage Trust; d.o.b. 1939-08-03, railway work: 1959-1996, Bradford Institute of Technology; Newcastle; Hull; Grantham; East Coast Main Line; Peterborough; London King's Cross; York; Scotland;

Cornell, Jim Scott

2002-06-12
traffic management trainee; traffic assistant; speedlink salesman; contract manager; marketing development manager; resource and contract manager; railfreight manager; national business manager; director; managing director; general manager; marketing director; base training; withdrawal of shunting; MOD; increased air braked services; practical experience; Laurie Spooner; new wagon types; emergence of national freight organisations; Total Operations Processing Systems; Official Secrets Act; reductions of wagons and locomotives; heavy construction, M25; over loading stone wagons; 1990, steel in depression; new relationships with managers and area maintenance engineers; tail traffic opinion; improvements of revenues; revenue; market analysis; privatisation; investment options from abroad; new traffic flows; matching resources to requirements; private siding traffic; most satisfaction, restructuring metals business; d.o.b. 1957-09-15, railway work: 1979-2000, Cardiff docks; Neath; Oxford; Andover; Cardiff; Severn Trent Junction; London; Leicester; Ardingly; Loughborough; Scotland; Tees-Tyne; West Midlands; Wales; Crewe; Lands End; john O' Groats; Carnforth depot; Speedlink; British Railways Board (BRB); Mercer Management Consultants; Transrail Freight (West); Enterprise Network; Transrail; Wisconsin; Rail Express Systems; Railfreight Distribution; Freightliner; English Welsh & Scottish Railways (EWR);

Worth, Julian Kendrick

2002-11-13
junior clerk; goods clerk; work study practitioner, organisation methods; assistant goods agents; goods agent; four years probation; working conditions; horse drawn vehicles; examinations; 1948 nationalisation; mechanisation; management training; national carriers; conditions of service; d.o.b. 1930-06-18, railway work 1944-1988, Wolverhampton; West Bromwich; Birmingham; Stoke; Shrewsbury; British Rail; National Freight Corporation;

Hubbard, Peter Gilbert

2003-01-23
British Rail research department; continuous communication with trains; line obstacle detection; advanced train control projects; Signal Repeating Automatic Warning System (SRAWS); Solid State Interlocking system (SSI); signalling and telegraph liaison; linking token instruments with a radio network; Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB); Integrated Electronic Control Centre (IECC); leaves on the line; safety; d.o.b. 1942-11-01, railway work: 1970-1997, University College London; General Electrical Company; General Signal Ltd; Westinghouse Signal Companies; Belgian Railways; Inverness-Wick; Leamington Spa; Dorchester; York; London Liverpool Street; West Highland line, Oban-Glasgow; Wales; Matlock;

Cribbens, Alan Hugh

2002-06-18
railway family; probationary clerk; booking and parcels work; permanent work; passimeter; staff pay bills; relief clerk; pigeon traffic; office environment; finance; pensions office; revenue accounts; auditors; cash section; statistics office; iron ore traffic; central banking unit; temporary special investigator; lodgings; organisation & methods team; BR Savings Bank; local departmental committee; costing for civil engineering work; Golden Rail; Family Railcard; computerisation of accountancy; privatisation; d.o.b. 1936-03-06, railway work 1952-1989, Beamish; West Pelton; Chester-le-Street; Durham; Gateshead; Manors; Heaton; Sunderland; Fencehouses; Horden; Newcastle; Healey Mills Yard; Tyne Dock; Consett; Ilford railway hostel; Leeds; Bradford; Huddersfield; Darlington; York; London King's Cross; Scunthorpe; Stratford;

Robinson, Thomas Watson

2001-10-18
signalbox boy; Second World War; signalman; working methods; district inspectors; relief work; signals passed at danger; leading railman; volunteer signalman; d.o.b. 1928-03-27, railway work 1942-1990, Langport; Taunton West; Chard; Whiteball; Dawlish; Cogload Junction; Norton Fitzwarren; Exeter; Bristol; Taunton; Somerton; West Somerset Railway;

Bowker, Patrick

2001-09-18
South African Railways; depot engineer; freight; rolling stock engineer; move to UK; development engineer; project engineer; rolling stock contracts manager; Eurostar, project management, production; d.o.b. 1946-09-01, railway work 1968-1997, South Africa; UK; Channel Tunnel;

Abrey, Peter

2001-10-10
clerk; accounts clerk; accounting apprenticeship; head of statistics management, accounts; traffic accountant; Philip Shirley; civil and signal engineer's accountant; accountant (development); accountant (revenue and statistics); standardisation; senior finance officer; financial accountant; information technology; All Purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); staff reduction; sectorisation; privatisation; d.o.b. 1931-12-17, railway work: 1947-1989, British Rail Southern Region; British Rail London Midland Region; Sheffield; Waterloo;

Elliott, Lewis

2002-07-19
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
time clerk; FRS clerk; stock clerk; clerical officer; motive power depot; rosters; signing on; office conditions; accidents; weighbridge; reorganisations; train announcer; power signal box; modernisation; lack of training; signing on point; union involvement; telephone enquiry bureau; complexities of fares systems; little modern equipment; computerised systems; conditions of position; attitude of supervisors; disability issues; d.o.b. 1935-08-18, railway work 1960-1996, Tondu Motive Power Depot; Port Talbot; Swansea Goods; Preston Docks; Preston Area Manager's Office; Preston Telephone Enquiry Bureau; Great Western Railway (GWR);

Pearce, David, (Gordon)

2002-06-28