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Garlick, Gladys

2002-12-06
apprentice boilersmith; trade union; working practice and environment; methods; boilersmith; Royal Engineers; boiler shop work, workplace; boiler inspector; breakdown work; work standards; conditions; redundancy; relayer; welder; relief supervisor, quality control; welding inspector; Morgate tunnel welding; Stansted Airport line; ECML Selby diversion; faulty welds; management; NUR; TSSA; Permanent Way Institute; NRM volunteer, Green Arrow, replica Rocket; preservation railways; d.o.b.1933-04-05, railway work 1948-1994, Darlington North Road Works; Stooperdale; Marchwood Military port; Longmoor; Eastleigh; West Hartlepool; Dinsdale; Leeds; Morgate; Stansted; Selby; Ulleskelf; Keighley and Worth Valley Railway; Great Central Railway, Loughborough;

Reed, Gordon

2001-09-17
apprentice woodworker; carriage body builder; windows; woods; classes of travel; working conditions; method of construction; tools; medical fund; sleeper coaches; dining saloons; Second World War, blackout preparation; staff excursions; Mechanics Institute; Royal Engineers; asbestosis; social activities; quality of coaches; d.o.b. 1911-04-01, railway work: 1927-1968, Great Western Railway; Swindon; Cornwall; Luton; Cheltenham; Gloucester; Manchester; Derby;

Gee, Charles

2002-01-16
management trainee; traffic assistant; assistant station manager; area operations manager; area manager; director; chief operations manager; managing director; John Pollard; training philosophy; effluent; derailmant of bo-plate wagon; abstraction of paraffin; black panther murders; parochial attitude of staff; royal family; politicians; thefts; hands on management; suicide; missed stop; flexible hours rostering; Lew Adams; staff reductions; blacklegs; immigrant workers, staff relations; industrial relations; Peter Rayner; Alec Bath; George Andrews; lighting strikes; spending rates; Bob Reid; D2 T1-12 influencing the future of railways; cost/benefit rationalisation; East Coast Mainline Line (ECML) electrification; members of parliament; sponsored airshow; Teddy Taylor; Theresa Gorman; senior officers mess, description; Gordon Pettitt; Colin McKeever; royal trains, sealed instructions; funerals, Queen Mother, Duke of Norfolk; president of India; Lady Susan Hussey; David Walker; Sussex Police, impressions; Paddy Ashdown, lobby for new trains; privatisation; plotting; Chris Green; training workshops; failed management buy out; d.o.b. 1951-03-25, railway work 1973-1996, Leeds; King's cross; Euston; Birmingham; Great Bridge; Dudley; Liverpool Street; Broxbourne; RTye House; Clacton; Southend; Pitsea; Stratford; Temple Mills; London Bridge; Charing Cross; Waterloo; Stanstead; London Midland Region; Freighliner; Anglia Region; Budweiser; South West Division; Gemini Consulting; Stagecoach; Network Southeast;

Field, Peter James

2002-11-08
child - resident of railway orphanage Woking (Southern Region); background to need for admittance; impressions of the home; house mothers; dormitories, numbers; morning bell, tasks, dining room, food; passtimes; social attitudes; character building activities; railway societies; funding by railway workers; George Evershed, secretary superintendent, Christmas activites; college; training for work sponsored by railway; home reunions; decline of railway sponsored institutions; d.o.b. 1954-12-13, Greenwich, London; Woking; Germany; Weymouth; Bournemouth; Waterloo; Southern Region; Rank Xerox; Airfix; St Christophers;

Cooper, David

2002-11-14
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
engineering apprentice; motive power improvers' course; firing experience; improver assistant motive power trainees; running foreman; running shed work practices; freight working; chief civil engineer's office, heating and lighting section, draughtsman; d.o.b. 1927-11-27, railway work 1945-1984, Glasgow St Rollox; Moffat; Corkerhill shed; Strathbungo College; Stow College of Engineering; Willesden; Crewe Divisional Office; Rowsley; London Euston;

Miles, Keith

2001-10-17
Black and white copy photograph of a formal studio portrait of Tom King, a footplateman who started as a premium engine cleaner and progressed to become an engine driver

Black and white copy photograph of a formal studio portrait of Tom King

circa 1920
Black and white copy photograph of locomotive No. 5265 at Barrow Shed, showing driver Tom King and fireman Stan Bush on the footplate and, on the ground at the side of the footplate, on the right, office clerk Jack Davis and, on the left, the assistant foreman and timekeeper

Black and white copy photograph of locomotive No. 5265 at Barrow Shed

circa 1936
locomotive sounds; starting work; appointment as premium engine cleaner; transfer to Derby; Bourneville Depot; spare fireman; shunting; cleaning engines; conditions; first day as a fireman; fog; colleagues; permanent way work; railway horses; First World War ambulance trains; nature of traffic; incidents; engine drivers; chocolate freight; work of a spare fireman; nationalisation; cleaning tanks; wooden brake blocks; flat wheels; lodgings; firing; d.o.b. 1898-06-25; railway work 1927-1963. Derby; Bath; Saltleigh; Bourneville; Selly Oak; Birmingham; Cadbury's sidings; Camden shed; Kentish Town; Sand sidings; Walsall; Ryecroft shed; Holbeck; Lickey incline; Bristol; London Midland & Scottish (LMS); Great Western Railway; Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.

King, Tom

circa 1991-1992
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;
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
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
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
messenger; accounts clerk; office outings; office social activities; trade union; Railway Women's Guild; d.o.b. 1936-04-06, railway work 1951-1969, Colwick Yard; Nottingham;

Pickett, Vera (nee Foulger)

2001-09-19
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
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
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
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
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
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
tracer; head of laboratory; assistant director (engineering); chief of research; general manager; project manager; director; joining the railway; training; civil engineering laboratory; soil mechanics; research department; T.M. Herbert; new laboratory opened by Duke of Edinburgh; Dr Beeching; John Ratter; dieselisation; Stanley Raymond; Sydney Jones; Tony Brindle; hovercraft difficulties, profitability; Board Headquarters; David Bowick, Lance Ibbotson, K.V. Smith; Arthur Butland, Chief Civil Engineer; study tour; various chairmen at Transmark; long term projects; d.o.b. 1927-01-12, railway work 1949-1986, London; Hong Kong/Malta; Paddington; Derby; Marylebone; Isleof Wight6; Waterloo; North America; Iran; Queensland; Egypt; Chicargo-Detroit; Brisbane; Botswana; Kenya; Zambia; Zimbabwe; British Rail Board, Headquarters; Office of Research and Experiments (ORE); Union Internationale des Chemin De Fers; Hoverspeed Ltd; Transmark; Soferail; Betchel;

Bartlett, Don

2002-12-05
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
guard; d.o.b. 1957-03-17, period c.1957-1994, Tonbridge Wells

Philip John Baldock

2001-09-17
graduate management trainee; assistant area manager; personal assistant to chief executive; marketing manager; graduate recruitment manager; communications officer, UIC; business development director, parcels; head of international policy; Advanced Passenger Train (APT) project; freight; shipping; traffic forecasts; international links; containers; management training centre; women employees; customer service; UIC; parcels; Post Office traffic; international policy; d.o.b. 1948-05-03, railway work: 1970-1999, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer; British Leyland; Red Star; Cadbury; Windsor; Birmingham; Longbridge; Coventry; Redditch; Liverpool; The Grove, Watford; Paris; Willesden; Brussels;

Halvorsen, Trevor

2002-03-05
goods clerk; divisional manager's office; car sleepers; freight; passenger movements; train timing; performance; relief control; parcels; area passenger manager; area manager's office; retail; business manager; redundancy; d.o.b. 1946-01-4, railway work 1962-1997, Shoeburyness; King's Cross; Thorneside; Great Northern; North Thameside; West Anglia Great Northern (WAGN);

Ashton, Peter

2001-12-07
footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; Second World War; motive power shed; routes; lodgings; weather, snow; troop trains; dieselisation; single manning; diesel railcar; incident; injury; test trains; Advanced Passenger Train (APT); Maglev; Channel Tunnel; d.o.b. 1922-06-11, railway work: 1939-1987, London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), Derby; Bristol; Wellingborough; Peterborough; Crewe; Leeds; Carlisle; Gloucester; Stranraer; Birmingham; Wichnor; High Peak; Rowsley;

Dyer, Joseph Ronald

2002-02-02
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;
messenger; porter/signalman; relief clerk; d.o.b. 1917-06-18, period c.1933-1976, Brighton Locomotive Depot; Pepworth; Sheffield Park; Shoreham; Brighton;

Burnett, Ronald (Ron)

2001-09-19
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Ronald Kennedy; Flying Scotsman

Kennedy, Ronald

2005-06-22
clerk; Continental & Shipping Department; traffic apprentice; East Coast Inspector; special duties; assistant traffic costing officer; d.o.b. 1926-02-06, railway work 1943-1963, Hitchin; Wheathampstead; Liverpool Street; Lincoln; King's Cross;

Baker, James (Jim)

2001-02-07; 2001-08-23
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Reg Batten; Flying Scotsman

Batten, Reg

2005-06-22
probationer; training instructor; signal and telegraph department; marshalling yard; work conditions; pay; track renewal; railway canteen; installation gang; safety; electrical lineman; railmotor; mess van; signal engineering; maintenance; training; royal train; d.o.b. 1934-07-19, railway work: 1949- ,Darlington North Road station; Northallerton; Ferryhill; Durham; Whitby; Saltburn; Redcar; Middlesbrough; Bishop Auckland; Barnard Castle; Richmond; Hawes; Tees Yard, Thornaby; Darlington Bank Top station; Green Street railway canteen; Sedgefield; Stillington; Hartlepool; Ayclife; Bowesfield; West Cornforth; Kelloe Bank Foot; Trimdon Grange; Wynyard; Charlton; Castle Eden; Tittybottle sidings; Thornaby Newport yard;

Hickman, David Brian

2002-04-03
clerk; canal trans-shipment; warehouses; freight rolling stock; passenger department; National Carriers Ltd, customer services and accounts; redundant; Golden Rail courier; engineer's office; filing clerk; d.o.b. 1932-04-14, railway work: 1960-1993, British Waterways; Ireland; Japan; Hong Kong; Canada; Brentford Dock, Grand Union Canal; London Paddington; Aberdeen; Kittybrewster; Letchworth; Cambridge; London King's Cross; Peterborough;

Ward, Lionel Ruthven

2002-03-26
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; George Hinchcliffe; Flying Scotsman

Hinchcliffe, George

2005-07-27
temporary junior clerk; goods clerk, office supervisor, class 4; second world war; dock goods; delivery traffic; no training; conditions; effect of war; blitz; work in passenger coaches, office damaged; salary; hours of work; efficiency exam; D2 T1-11 shorthand and typing; shipping office; invoices, rating and charging; american servicemen; problems; facilites for women, docks offices; goods agent; confusion of wagon numbers; grading structure, equal pay; national insurance stamp; trade union; strike action, views; suspension; civil service exam; d.o.b. 1923-12-15, railway work 1940-1961, West Kirby; Isle of MAn; Douglas; Hunt's Bank; Waterloo Dock Goods; Canada Dock; Southport; Liverpool; Edge Hill; Aintree station; Austria, Italy; London Midland & Scottish (LMS); British Railways (BR);

Dickinson, Doreen

2003-01-21
clerk, reservations and enquiries; special traffic; diagramming staff; shipping and international services division (S&ISD); pricing; tours; brochures; Sealink; production manager; group sales; customer relations; privatisation; InterCity; British Rail Community Unit; community affairs manager; d.o.b. 1942-10-04, railway work: 1959-1988, railway work: 1988-1996, Fred Olsen/Bergen Line; Anglia Railways; West Anglia Great Northern; British Rail Community Unit; Kentish Town; London Liverpool Street station; Holland; London Victoria; Lourdes; Eversholt House; Ireland; Ashford; London Euston;

Sowman, John

2002-07-15
training; TOPS, Total Operations Processing System; passengers, mail trains; public relations; workplace culture; single manning; Morpeth derailment; reduced traffic; industrial relations; personal assistant to BR Chairman, Bob Reid 1; resources manager, European Passenger Services; Channel Tunnel; Waterloo International station; Eurostar; funding disagreements; redundancy; consultant; Office of the Rail Regulator; d.o.b. 1951-10-15, railway work: 1973-1996, Western Hydraulic Locomotives; Royal Mail; Western Region; Derby Railway Technical Centre; European Passenger Services; Channel Tunnel Rail Link; Bristol; Newton Abbot; Bristol Temple Meads; Taunton; Birmingham; Newcastle; Blyth; Morpeth; Bedlington; Dartford; Tyne marshalling yard; Slade Green; London Bridge; Waterloo International; Channel Tunnel; Kensington Olympia; North Pole Eurostar depot; Waterloo and City line; Willesden Junction; Ladbroke Grove; Ashford International station;

Woods, Michael Dennis

2002-04-24
Articled Accountant: Accountant in the Private Sector; Chief Accountant, Western Region of BR; AGM Sundries Division; GM National Carriers; Group Co-ordinator, National Freight Corporation (NFC); Director, Corporate Planning, NFC; MD British Transport Hotels; Chairman Venture Capital Consortium; Chairman District Health Authority;

Land, Peter

2002-08-13
railman; training; pension; guard; staff award; Super Sprinter; deputy relief supervisor; platform supervisor; ethnic minority staff; youth training scheme; recruitment; privatisation; trains leader; Clapham accident, safety; Railtrack, crossing keeper; work atmosphere; uniform; fatal incident; safety training; d.o.b. 1957-03-27, railway work: 1979-1997, railway work: 2001-present, Newcastle Central station; Tyne yard; Northampton; Birmingham New Street station; Carlisle; Clapham junction; Milton crossing box;

Brown, David

2002-07-08
licensing; traffic apprentice; training; marshalling yards; steelworks; coking plant; coal mines; depot merger; freight; Beeching, reshaping plan; sectorisation; Provincial Railways; rolling stock replacement; costs; Sprinter, diesel multiple unit (DMU); consultancy; d.o.b. 1933, railway work: 1957-1989, Sheffield; Nottingham District; Toton yard; Great Central; Corby; Hasland; Westhouses; Tibshelf; Erewash valley;

Pattison, Ray

2002-05-22
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