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Garlick, Gladys

2002-12-06
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Ronald Kennedy; Flying Scotsman

Kennedy, Ronald

2005-06-22
Oral history recording; Expandind National Archive of Railway Oral History; Michael Reeder; childhood; pubs/drinking; changes in the community; work culture and relationships; changes in the railway industry; Mutual Improvement Classes; signalling school; signalman; management grades; British Rail; shipping; ethnic minorities; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Harwich and Parkeston Quay; Bunwell; Beccles; Norwich; Yarmouth; London; Derby; Luton; Birmingham; Hatfield; Potters Bar; Peterborough; King's Cross; Ilford; Liverpool Street; Dunkirk; Zeebrugge; Felixstowe; Dovercourt; Bathside Bay

Reeder, Michael

2005-01-26
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Nick Alexander; work culture and relationships; memories of individuals; marshalling yards; changes in the railway industry; engineer; management grades; British Rail; Dr Beeching; Sheffield; Temple Mills; Ripple Lane; Whitemoor; Derby; Hull; Goodmayes; Tinsley; Marylebone

Alexander, Nick

2005-03-25
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

2006-08-23
Born October 1929 in Kings Lynn; memories of school in Kings Lynn; works at Patrick and Thompson's sawmill; joins Navy on call up; starts at South Lynn Locomotive Depot week before Christmas 1948; cleaning an engine described; disposal of engine described; South Lynn Shed described; firing and driving steam locomotives; promoted to Fireman in August 1956; description of route Melton Constable to Fakenham;1955 ASLE&F Strike; rates of pay for cleaners, labourers and firemen; coal traffic from Colwick to Norwich; description of line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach; Royal Trains to Sandringham; Massingham Fuel depot; Local Departmental Committee; closure of South Lynn on 28 February 1959; duties as bus conductor; joins Post Office; situation of M&GN after closure; last train; origins of M&GN Circle; election as President 1999-2000; d.o.b. 1929-10-05., Railway work December 1948 to 1959. South Lynn; Peterborough (North); Sutton Bridge; Wisbech; Swaffham; Thetford; Melton Constable; Fakenham; Colwick; Norwich; Yarmouth (Beach); Spalding; March; Whitemoor; Massingham; West Raynham; 1955 rail strike; Disability Link; M & GN closure; B12; "Claud"; M & GN Circle;

Raymond Bullock

2002-10-16;2002-10-30;2002-11-06;2002-11-20;2002-12-11;
Born in 1932 at Wood Green, London; memories of Blitz; interest in Railways; joins Land Registry at Lincolns Inn; joins Works Maintenace Section of Chief Civil Engineer's Office at Kings Cross in 1952; workings of Drawing Office; Special Trains, last Ivatt Atlantic and Henry Oakley; transfer to District Engineer's Office at Kings Cross; Coaling Plants and Water Troughs; Examination of tunnels; services on the Kings Cross District; Resident Engineer for construction of new bridge at Langley; joins Permanent Way section and Electrification team; transfer to Stratford; life at Stratford; supervision of electrification between Stratford and Cheshunt via Tottenham Hale; stabilisation of bank slips; promotion to Kings Cross and the Great Northern Electrification scheme; Resident Engineer for Kings Cross to Wood Green ;rail lubrication; rail grinding and re-profiling; Network South East at Liverpool Street; Railtrack Southern Zone at Waterloo and the Plan Arch; retention of records; establishing structure for monitoring contractors; contribution on Ultra Sonic work and welding; d.o.b 1932.09.22, Railway work 1952 to 1994. Wood Green; Hornsey;East Side Offices, Kings Cross; Kings Cross Motive Power Depot; Langley Water Troughs; Finsbury Park; Gasworks Tunnel; Welwyn Garden City; Moorgate;Pondsbourne Tunnel; District Civil Engineer, Stratford; Liverpool Street; The Grove, Watford; Waterloo;

May, Harvey

2002-12-13; 2003-01-10;2003-02-13;
Carriage & Wagon Works; footplate, knocker-up, cleaner; fireman; guard; traffic, cars; banking locomotives; trade unions; carriage and wagon works, Swindon Shop 21A, building wagons; Second World War; flat wagons; parts supplied from USA; footplate work; cleaning, knocking-up; fireman (Cirencester); Swindon depot; pilot, transfer duties; Swindon depot; pilot transfer duties; relief and control link; Paddington trains; castle class locomotives; incident, safety valve cover; Reading Station; driving; speed; marriage problems; work-related injury (dermatitis); porter-shunter; ballast train working; motor car trains; banking locomotives (Brimscombe); incidents, train breakaways, coupling failures; work-related health problems; retirement; goods wagon incident; royal train working; trade union membership, ASLEF, AEU, NUR; d.o.b. 1927-07-04. railway work 1939-1992. Swindon; Cirencester; Paddington.

Warren, Jack

2000-07-24
BR research, electrical research division; Transport Technology Group; Research Planning Officer; d.o.b. 1932-02-24, railway work 1948-1987, Derby; Woking; Nottingham;

Law, Peter Geoffrey

2001-06-16; 2001-06-24
footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; driver training; locomotives; childhood; gobbler Woodford; Second World War Blitz; crossing, operation; signalman's wife incident; passed cleaner; Buck Jumpers; 24 links; Stratford overhaul locomotives; 1500s; outstation cover; 1000+ footplate; N7 tank locomotives; driver training; braking; Liverpool Street Station; Britannias; express locomotives, 70003, mainline links; qualifying as a driver; 100 spare passed fireman; 1960 Britannia, driver check; East London link; Clacton electrification trials, 309 units, 1100hp, 100mph; Clacton interoad (?) service; convalescent train facilities; experimental trials; 1982 Centenary run, Clacton-Liverpool Street; social life; branch security; d.o.b. 1930-03-18, railway work 1948-1993, Stratford; Liverpool Street; Clacton;

Swettenham, Colin Herbert

2000-08-15
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
permanent way, coal loader, oiler, ganger, railman; manual work; conditions; refugee; d.o.b.1929, railway work 1950-1994, Bletchley; London; Colchester; Essex;

Kampf, John

2001-01-04
signalman; trade union; High Speed Train; early working life; recruitment and training, British Rail; Evesham signal box; late for duty; Northern relief, commuting, Malvern box; Moreton-in-Marsh box; culture, beer drinking; farm crossing, cows, hazards; Ascott-under-Wychwood box, views, commuting; London train, brake problem; HST, fuel breakdown, passenger rearrangement, recovery of HST, back-up limitations, signal box tea service; signalmen's strike, 1994, trade union, loyalty; privatisation, effects; different signalling systems, Worcester, busy; heatwave; barriers; views from signalboxes, wildlife; teamwork; rivalry; safety; changes; communications; goodwill; d.o.b. 1931-08-01; railway work 1990-1996, Malvern; Moreton-in-Marsh; Ascott-under Wychwood; Worcester;

Druce, Brian

2000-10-05
Travelling Post Office supervisor; staffing; sorting methods; work conditions; d.o.b. 1945-11-28, railway work 1964-1997, London; Shap summit;

Mellish, Colin

2001-03-10
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

2001-04-10
apprentice chemist, chemist, LNER, BR Research Dept, brake blocks; d.o.b. 1918, railway work 1937-1980s, Derby

Henley, Eric

2001-06-11; 2001-06-20
Butlins Red Coat, d.o.b. 1929-10-07, railway work 1948- , Filey

Wing, Rosemary Anne (nee Dennis)

2001-03-02
typing pool; incidents; staffing; Divisional Movements Office; reorganisation; family; father, railway clerk; school; visual impairment; free travel; Didcot, Paddington; typing pool, audio recording bank; typing test; boyfriend; oversea work; fashion; recording bank function and breakdown; travel to work; flexitime; Ealing train crash; audio system functions; Paddington office layout; working with sight problems, unsighted people; staff turnover; men typists; interests, partially sighted club; engagement; pressures; effects of train crash; HST trial run; marriage, 1976; community broadcasts; talking newspaper; move to Reading; Paddington work; integration to Divisional Movements Office; building layout; family with railway connections; receptionist; word processors; magnifiers; departmental rules; work load, Paddington; royal trains; Welsh place names; transcribing desk; correcting fluids; supervisors; staffing reductions; move to Swindon or Bristol; field organisation; accident inquiries; redundancy; d.o.b. 1951-10-01; railway work 1970-1983. Didcot; Paddington; Ealing.

McMillan, Christine May (nee Howman)

2000-07-31
lad porter; lad ticket collector; axle box cleaner; electrical apprentice; workshops; royal trains; funeral trains; father's work as a platelayer; Enfield-Cuffley; lad porter; duties; lad ticket collector; 1926 railway strike; mother's job; axle box cleaner; electrical apprentice; training; Finsbury Park, Western Sidings; Pullman coaches; Yorkshire & Queen of Scots Pullman locomotive; diesel cars; workshop visits; Heaters in carriages; Western Sidings; diesel units electrical work; King's Cross; mainline work; complaints; electrical cables; staff relations; IRA; Second World War; Doncaster; air raids; d.o.b. 1904-04-29, railway work 1917-1972, Finsbury Park; King's Cross;

Gough, Arthur Thomas

2000-08-29
research laboratory; vehicle tests; dynamic instability; Advanced Passenger Train; reorganisation, business-led; education, PhD, non-linear vibration theory; recruitment to BR; Engineering Research Division Laboratory; dynamics; vehicle stability; experimental test track; Field Trials Department; track recording trolley; relationship of speed to derailment; Tony Hobbs; Alan Rimmer; development of theories on vehicle stability, dynamic instability; high speed freight vehicle (HSFV); staff relations; Stan Smith; measuring track irregularities; callouts, derailments, conditions (hours); causes of incidents; development of Advanced Passenger Train (APT); David Boocock; reaction of trade unions to APT; freight liners; pantograph; civil engineering research, mechanised track work; safety; liaison with business; sponsorship of research work; restructuring of research division, George Buckley, Malcolm Savage; strategic research programme, BRB; Automatic Train Protection (ATP); retirement; history of BR Research Department; research staffing levels; d.o.b. 1934-07-08; railway work 1964-1993. Derby; Etwall; Network Southeast.

Gilchrist, Alastair Ogilvie

2000-08-22
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;
woman passenger guard; Second World War; training;family; passenger guard training, 1940s; Rule 55, safety on stoppage; condition, shifts; wartime trains, Second World War; railway women; wartime blackout on trains; troop trains; prisoner of war trains; passenger guard duties; conditions, weather, 1947; railway women; National Railway Museum exhibition, "Oh Mrs Porter"; conditions, pay; d.o.b. 1923-10-23; railway work 1940-1947. Gloucester.

Lee, Violet Priscilla (nee Davis)

2000-08-24
footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; started work in 1943, Boston vegetable trains, fish trains, locomotive 61365; Driver Craven 1950-58; Signals Passed At Danger; accidents, near misses; Kings Cross to Boston crossing gates damaged by a car; Langley, incident where guard left behind Aberdeen Express; Boston United, 6 specials to Tottenham; 15 years firing, Boxing day 1963; passed for driving, not allowed to go to Kings Cross; engine failure, repairs on the move; engine failure at Grimsby; NUR driver, 1955; passed red light at Potters Bar; moved to Southend after Beeching cuts; Inspector Punter, electric trains, rail cars, diesel electrics; experiences at Southend; Westinghouse brake; moving house, Ron Lampkin killed; father born at Bethnal Green, mother from Oxford, father had a cycle shop; rail cars at Southend; unit failure, 1958, major incident with locomotive 61190; permanent way notices, Sandy Bridge lowest point, toilet cleaner with 10p cash float; d.o.b. 1927-02-05, railway work 1943-1990

King, Derek Stephen

2001-05-17
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
woman engine cleaner; family; conscription;female engine cleaner, Bournemouth Central Southern; Railway, d.o.b. 1908-08-23, railway work 1941-1945, Bournemouth;

Glassey, Hilda

2000-09-12
permanent way; platelayer; Permanent Way Inspector; childhood; first job; starting on railway; early career as platelayer; sub-ganger; ganger and sub-Inspector; description of relaying by hand; track maintenance; measured shovel packing; other trackwork; unloading long welded rails (LWR); track tamping machines; mobile gangs; messing facilties; follow-up relaying; conditions (shifts), longest shift; weather, snow duties; working under overhead electric wires; duties of a Permanent Way Inspector; proposal of items for renewal; loading rails by hand; derailment training; changes after the Sheffield Area Office closed changes to relaying; maintenance; supplies for day-to-day maintenance; d.o.b. 1928-06-21, railway work 1952-1993, Darfield; Wath North; Roundwood; Wath Road; Swinton; Rotherham;

Arrowsmith, Harry

2000-09-27; 2000-10-28
civil engineer graduate trainee; assistant district engineer; divisional civil engineer; assistant civil engineer (works); assistant civil engineer (permanent way); chief civil engineer, Western Region; d.o.b. 1929-09-08, railway work 1953-1986, London Midland; Euston; Crewe; Manchester; St Pancras; Lancaster; Settle-Carlisle Line; Hest Bank; Derby; Woking; Hither Green; Newhaven harbour; Crystal Palace; Bromley; Selby; York; Paddington; Swindon;

Rowell, Dennis Lancaster

2001-03-27
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
Travelling Post Office; training; staffing; nature of work; lodgings; social impact of job; conditions; d.o.b. 1940-02-22, railway work 1967-1997, London; Newcastle;

Griffths, David

2001-03-12
stationmaster; Royal Engineers; milk train; single line working; chief clerk; father's job, porter-signalman, signalman; school; Second World War; Home Guard; model engines; Pevensey Bay; evacuation; Suffolk; mother's early life; father becoming a signalman 1948; starting work; Pevensey Bay Station; livestock; station work; role, station master; National Service; father; Eggesford North Devon; station house; Royal Engineers, 1950-52; national dock strike; return to railway; Exeter; trains office; milk tank; relief work; Lapford Station; cattle feed traffic; rabbits; single line working; tablet working; relief work, Ilfracombe, Barnstaple; camping coaches; RAF Chivenor; Barnstaple goods; Eggesford pigs; Western Region takeover; transfer to Southern Region; father station master at Ford; relief work on Southern Region Central, conditions; shifts; Lower Regent Street; chief clerk, Gatwick 1958; construction of Gatwick new station; ticket sales; signal lamps; branch line stations; Christ's Hospital station Ford station; Gatwick; Caribbean immigrants; old Gatwick station; training enquiries; Broadstairs; meeting wife; station houses; death of father; railway pensions; work study; bonus schemes; weekend work; transfer to Waterloo; move home; children; early work study; retirement; holiday home; royal visits; work study practice, carriage cleaning, shunting; drivers; work study, station work, clerical staff; headquarters staff office, Waterloo, 1982; area managers; establishment; organisation; conditions discipline; London Bridge; relief wages clerk; Battersea; booking office; cashing-up; ticket sales, Victoria station, Regent's Street, French motorail; hobbies; holiday home; family; d.o.b. 1931-12-06. railway work 1948-1988. Pevensey Bay; Exeter; Gatwick; Waterloo; Barnstable Goods.

Pegler, Tony

2000-07-11; 2000-07-24
canteen attendant; d.o.b. 1925-09-21, railway work 1943-1947, Redhill

Cox, Joan May

2001-08-29
Beeching; management trainee; school trains; BT Police; area manager; electrification; freight marketing, steel, iron ore; reorganisation of coal traffic, industrial action 1984-1985; Speedlink Coal; Light Rail negotiations; BR safety panel; privatisation; track access agreements; freight companies; personal assistant to Bob Reid (1); chief officers; passengers' charter; Peter Parker; costs; revenue; Provincial Railways; effect on family life; d.o.b. 1947-07-29, railway work: 1970-1998, Railtrack; Bridgeton Central; Partickhill; Dumbarton; Glasgow; Bellgrove; Grantham; East Coast Main Line; Cardiff, South Wales; British Rail Headquarters; Manchester Piccadilly; Nottingham; Settle-Carlisle line; USA;

Shrubsole, Martin Richard

2002-04-11
junior clerical posts; clerical posts (staff section); sundries division; National Carriers Limited (NCL); industral relations officer; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); goods inward; train ferry, vegetable traffic; night shift; Vacancy List; horse section Southern Area; cartage and deliveries, horse shunting dities; traffic apprenticeship; Staff Office; Traffic Manager's Office; reorganisation, pay and efficiency; rationalisation and transfer; redundancy; d.o.b. 1921-10-24, railway work: 1938-1981, Broad Street; Bishopsgate goods depot; Spitalfields; Covent Garden; Liverpool Street Station; King's Cross; Peterborough; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Midland Region (LMR); National Carriers Limited (NCL); Railtrack;

Standen, Frank Charles

2002-11-06
probationary clerk; class 3 clerk; clerical officer (CO); head of section (CO4); travel centre manager; telesales manager; passenger & goods; railway studentship scheme, goods depot project; divisional experience; formal training, day release, Institute of Transport; cattle transportation; coal co-ordination section; merry-go-round (MGR); research and planning section; early digitalisation; freight train, passenger train planning, survey; draft timetables; service improvements; group travel section; shift working patterns; travel centres; fraud; staff shotages through dismissals; All Purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); Portable Ticket Issuing System (PORTIS); conflict between staff; despatch of tickets; group travel; telesales office closure, operating problems; National Rail Enquiry Service (NRES); value of business travel; Regional Railways North East (RRNE); complaints procedure; Birmingham-London service, complaints; trade union membership; d.o.b. 1946-09-24, railway work: 1965-2000, York Goods; Foss Island depot; Leeman Road; Knottingley passenger & goods; Castleford; Hunslet goods; Wellington Street; Bradfod Valley; Woodlesford; Holbeck; Healey Mills; York booking, HQ; Skegness branch; Leeds; Sheffield division; Hull; Gilberdyke; British railways (BR); Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB); National Coal Board (NCB); North Sea Ferries; British Telecom (BT);

Scotney, John

2002-09-06
engineer; locomotive manufacture; depot inspector; maintenance engineer; divisional maintenance engineer; works manager; British Rail Engineering Ltd, BREL; diesel locomotives; chief mechanical and electrical engineer; High Speed Train; headquarters; single manning; Advanced Passenger Train-Prototype; sectorisation; Railway Division, Institute of Mechanical Engineers; d.o.b. 1931-05-01, railway work: 1955-1987, Metropolitan Vickers; Cora Iompair Eireann; Beyer Peacock; General Motors; English Electric; Southern Region; London Midland Region; Western Region; Manchester; Dukinfield; Derby; Woking staff college; Manchester Business School; Birmingham; Tyseley; Doncaster; Northern Ireland, Dublin, Belfast; USSR; West Coast Main Line; Old Oak Common; Bristol St Philips Marsh; Swansea; Plymouth; Penzance; Weston-super-Mare; Severn tunnel, Sudbrook pumping station; Barry Docks; Taunton; Paddington; Trans-Pennine summit tunnel; Crewe;

Power, Samuel Robert Douglas MBE

2002-01-25
shorthand typist (war time only); railway housing; headquarters; rail travel and facilities; restaurant cars; flying bomb, carriage and wagon shop damage; dining cars; d.o.b. 1922-02-23, railway work: 1940-1945, Denham; Gerrards Cross; Craighead; Churston; King's Cross; Cheltenham; East African Railways;

Green, Marjorie

2002-10-29
engine cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; driver; racehorse special train; horse boxes; safety; freight locomotives; turntable; rivalry between companies; lodging; water troughs; oil-burning locomotives; fumes, health; diesel railcar; diesel working; d.o.b. 1918-07-21, railway work: 1937-1983, London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS); Midland & Great Northern Railway (M&GN); Wisbech goods yard; New England yard, Peterborough; Spital; Whittlesea; Rugby; Leicester; Yarmouth; Sutton Bridge; Lynn; Northampton; Camden; London Euston-Crewe; Willesden junction; Leighton Buzzard; Loughborough; Wellingborough; Brent; Watford; Derby;

Herbert, David Harold

2002-05-27
shorthand typist; learning railway geography; claims office; Second World War; travel to work; First Aid; holiday relief clerk; Morse code; computers; d.o.b. 1913-01-27, railway work: 1929-1968, London Euston, Broad Street; Southend;

Maley, Doris Isabel

2002-06-07
probationer clerk; junior clerk; shorthand typist; clerical exam; description of station; claims office; Miss Green, tutor, explanation of course; work description; typing emergency instructions; roneo notices; VIPs, royalty, film stars, dictation, standards; outdoor machinery section; d.o.b. 1939, railway work 1957-1963, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne; Alnwick; Hertfordshire; Northumberland; Ware Station; Liverpool Street; Chertsey; Waterloo; London Bridge; Southampton Docks; Sheffield; Derby; Plymouth; Bristol; Shell Mex/BP; Alnwick Gazette;

Shalice, Brenda (nee Pow)

2003-01-21
carriage works apprentice; coach painting; coach testing; signwriting; cleaning; polishing; shopman; work standards; training; safety; wagon works; circus train; Dr Beeching; permanent way, railman, trackman, ganger, chargeman; York Railway Institute; d.o.b. 1930-05-29, railway work: 1947-1993, National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); Hull & Barnsley Railway; Bertram Mills Circus; British Road Services; York carriage works; Clifton carriage sidings; Derby; Egton Bridge; Newcastle; Darlington; Whitby; York Railway Institute;

Pinder, Lionel Barry (known as Barry)

2002-05-15
railway family; messenger lad, goods depot; conditions, hours, uniform; railway horses; Railway Home Guard; royal train; staff mess facilities; relief van/lorry driver; nationalisation; parcels; trade union branch secretary; parcels concentration; redundant; motor driver; National Freight Corporation, NFC; trade union militancy; training; safety; depot merger; decline of parcel business; warehouse manager; d.o.b. 1925-01-19, railway work: 1939-1990, National Freight Corporation, NFC; London Marylebone; London King's Cross; Bowes Park bridge; Bayford tunnel; New Southgate; Hatfield; Finsbury Park; St Pancras; Somers Town; London Paddington; Great Northern warehouse;

Ellis, Reginald Harry (Reg)

2002-05-31
probationer clerk; clerk +2 levels of promotion; MS5; assistant director; duties of clerk conditions of pay; staff section, histories, footplate staff disciplinary procedure; record management; commercial department, broaden experience, goods and passenger stations; control; footplate bous; time sheets, graphs, mechanised systems; train timings, East Coast Main Line (ECML); pegasus computer; progressive computerisation; national traffic data; scientific principles applied to freight operations; movements and development section; implementation of Total Operations Processing System (TOPS), Theodore Strong, David Bowick, James Urquhart; Bob Arnot; transponder system; union problems; view on railways late application of freight system; fleet reduction; data processing merge; rationalisation; d.o.b. 1933-02-12, railway work 1949-1990, Hull; Hessle Road; Dairycoats; Springhead; Doncaster; Scarborough; Dringhouses Yard; Leeds; Great Northern House, London; Darlington; Marylebone; Carlifornia; Cornwall; Premier Oil & Soap & Co; Avery Scales; Needlers; Fenners; British Railways Board; IBM; British Rail (BR);

Green, Ken

2003-01-16
footplate; cleaner; fireman; driver; supervisor, traffic department; work conditions; culture; trade union; women engine cleaners; railway town; lodging; goods links; Local Departmental Committee; clothing; routes; comparison of steam and diesel; pension; nationalisation; d.o.b. 1919-10-14, railway work: 1937-1981, London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS); Midland Railway; North Staffordshire Railway; Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); Cromford and High Peak Railway; Derby; Camden; Blackpool; Buxton; Wellingborough; Nottingham; Melton; Harrow Wealdstone; Chellaston; Crewe; Coventry; Birmingham New Street; Gresty Road barracks; Bristol; Leicester; Trent; Stoke Bank; Manchester; Chester; Llandudno; Warrington; Manchester Victoria; Coalville;

Weston, John Albert

2002-03-06; 2002-03-15; 2002-03-21; 2002-03-28;
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;
labourer, permanent way; sub-ganger; ganger; pre-assembly ganger; work study; civil engineering planning; divisional chief inspector, permanent way; staff suggestion sheme; d.o.b. 1924-07-02, railway work 1957-1984, Germany; Waterloo; Okehampton; Launceston; Yeoford Junction; Tisbury; Yeovil Junction; Three Bridges; Stuttgart, Germany; Lingfield; Crawley; Croydon; Brighton; East Grinstead; Redhill; Tonbridge; Balcombe;

Schrade, Karl Friedrich

2001-10-31
traffic apprentice; supernumerary assistant to district passenger manager, then district goods manager; assistant yard master; assistant head of freight, Eastern Region; traffic manager; works assistant; bulk terminals manager; freight planning manager; chief operating manager's department; rail travel, Second World War; accountancy; training; nationalisation; marshalling yards; managing style; coal traffic; reorganisation; merry-go-round working; steel traffic; Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); trade union impact; privatisation; d.o.b. 1921-12-21, railway work: 1949-1983, London and North Eastern Railway; British Rail; Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB); National Coal Board (NCB); British Rail Eastern Region; British Rail North Eastern Region; Freightliner; Speedlink; Hadley Wood accountancy school; Bishop's Stortford; Sheffield Victoria station; Ipswich; Grimsby; Eastern Region headquarters, London Liverpool Street; York; Gascoigne Wood, Selby; Toton; Aire Valley; Knottingley; London King's Cross;

McCarter, Charles

2002-
lad messenger; goods porter; motor driver; goods clerk; District Claims Inspector; claims investigation; claims prevention; sundries; National Carriers Ltd; Cartage & Terminals Inspector; health and safety; d.o.b. 1920-09-09, railway work c.1935-1979, Taunton;

Bowditch, Alec

2001-09-11; 2001-09-25
clerk, enquiry and reservation office; Regent Street travel office; travel warrants; group travel; tour manager; Golden Rail; special trains; Merrymaker excursions; management training; chief clerk; area manager's office; management staff grade (MS2); customer complaints; electrification; marketing; publications; events; privatisation; d.o.b. 1960-09-27, railway work: 1979-1999, Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC); Institution of Railway Operators; Railway Study Association; London Paddington; Bognor Regis; Brighton; Calais, Boulogne, France; York; Burgess Hill; Southend; Cambridge; Hamilton House; East Anglia; London King's Cross; London Waterloo; Croydon; Friars Bridge Court;

Saunders, Claire Caroline (nee Wickes)

2002-04-19
railway family, stationmaster; Second World War; clerk; stationhouse; goods office; accounts; training for women; mineral office; reorganisation; area management; discipline; pregnancy; d.o.b. 1939-05-15, railway work: 1955-1970, Edinburgh; Smeaton; Glasgow High Street; Maud; Jedburgh; Inverurie; Glasgow Bridgeton; Boness; Wishaw; River Forth; Bridge of Orchy; Abbey Hill; Tynehead; Dunbar; Motherwell; Dundee; Thornton Junction;

Falconer, Kathleen

2002-02-02
clerk; traffic apprentice; stationmaster; area manager; freight depot manager; area manager; divisional operating superintendent; management services manager; divisional manager; regional operations manager; safety programme director; ticket office; daily routine; Lewisham accident; staffing stations; initial training; rules and regulations; signalling inspectors; training, motive power department; freight train investigations; box visits; staff problems; Tom Rixon; total signal failure; railway houses; disciplinary; staff shortages; Lionel Sebright; depot badly managed; change management; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); working management courses; operating discipline; rationalisation; electrification; nuclear flasks; Her Majesty's Railway Inspectors (HMRI); diesel multiple units (DMU); flooding; points failure; career moves; handling disputes; Spa Road incident; revenue protection; commuter associations; management of all aspects of accountability; strike 1988; Automatic Train Protection (ATP); Southall accident; Clapham accident; CLI 55 doors, backside covering; class 47; Signals passed at danger (SPADS); revenue protection; royal trains; safety management group; changing of work practice following accident; theory of structure simplification; haphazard management development; empowerment; d.o.b. 1935-09-21, railway work 1956-1992, Catterick; West country, Exeter; Eden Park; Elmers End; Clock House; Hither Green Booking Office; Collumpton; Newton Abbott; Taunton; Bristol temple Meads; Merthyr Tydfil; Worcester; Torquay Line; Banbury; Kemble; Shrewsbury District; Gloucester Eastgate; Uxbridge; Twyford; Southall; Newbury race; Cheltenham; Carlisle; Perth Depot; Quintinshill; Workington; Sellafield; Nottingham; Headquarters, Paddington; Didcot power station; Westbury; Chippenham; Beckenham; High Halden; Dover; Doncaster; Newton; Dillington House; Swindon; British Steel Corporation; Eastern Region; National Coal Board (NCB); Western Region;

Poynter, Bob

2002-11-19&27