Premium Apprentice at Doncaster Works 1949 to 1953; Doncaster locomotive Drawing Office 1956 to 1957; M&EE BRB HQ, Derby 1067 to 1993; 1970 joined Braking Section as Deputy to Brake Engineer BRB; became Brake Engineer BRB HQ in 1983; d.o.b 1932-12-05. railway work 1949 to 1994. BR; BSI; RIA; ORE; UIC; Class 40; Class 86; Class 25; EP brakes; cab ventilation; air conditioning; composition brake blocks; HST Power cars; EQ Brake; HST braking; Westinghouse; Davies and Metcalfe; Class 508; Private Owner Wagons; Class 313; air brake systems and condensation; blue spotting; pressure vessel design; BR modification procedure; Class 123; Doncaster works; Doncaster Carr Depot; Perth; Inverness; Bottesford; Darlington; Railway Technical Centre, Derby; Vienna Arsenal; Barry; Merseyside; Tyne and Wear; Motherwell; Sheffield; Copyhold Junction; Colwich; Walton on the Naze; Hull Dairycoates; Stourbridge Town; Stafford; Tunstead; Beattock; Paddington; Nicholas, Brian 2003 and 2004
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;
Served 4 year apprenticeship as a bricklayer with Henry Boot and Son; joined LNER as a bricklayer in 1939 and worked in this trade throughout his career as a tradesman, chargehand andfrom time to time as a supervisor in the Sheffield area; Army service 1942 to 1946;clearing River culverts under Sheffield Station; work on buildings, Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield, Wicker Arch, Neepsend Locomotive Shed; Aerocem pointing in Tunnels; colliery subsidence; reminiscences of Bosses, Albert Johnson, Brian Davis. Linley, William Henry 2001-05-31
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;
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Nick Alexander; religion; changes in the community; changes in the railway industry; marshalling yards; engineer; British Rail; retirement activity; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Cambridge; Tinsley; Leeds; Liberia; Mozambique; Swaziland; Greece; Potters Bar Alexander, Nick 2006-01-26
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Ronald Kennedy; Flying Scotsman Kennedy, Ronald 2005-06-22
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; George Saville; childhood; sport; railway community; memories of individuals; anecdotes from the workplace; changes in the railway industry; unions; strikes; Ernest Marples; Dr Beeching; Stratford; Devons Road; Tilbury; Rotterdam; West Ham; Moscow; Felixstowe; Billingsgate; Thurrock Saville, George 2005-11-29
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Donald Reasbeck; childhood; family life; sport; religion; pubs/drinking; railway community; changes in the community; changes in the railway industry; charity work; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Doncaster; Hexthorpe; Bridlington; Rhyl; Armthorpe Reasbeck, Donald 2005-02-01
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Richard Hardy; work culture and relationships; memories of individuals; conditions at work; working on steam; working on diesel; working on electric; change from steam to diesel; depots; works; changes in the railway industry; unions; tension at work; management grades; British Rail; 1950s; 1960s; Stratford Hardy, Richard 2005-08-10
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Audrey Wright; railway community; memories of individuals; retirement activity; charity work; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Doncaster; Sheffield; Worksop; Derby; Albania; Italy; Poland; Filey Wright, Audrey 2005-11-10
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Gordon Hull; childhood; family life; sport; Railway Institute; railway community; changes in the community; work culture and relationships; memories of individuals; conditions ar work; depots; marshalling yards; changes in the railway industry; wages and overtime; signalman; management grades; British Rail; other industries; retirement activity; charity work; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Leeds; Sunderland; Durham; Dunston; Staithes; Derwenthaugh; York; Newcastle; Pickburn; Brodsworth; Nottingham; Cudworth; Guiseley; Ripley; Otley; Ilkley; Bradford; Healey Mills; Selby; Drax; Hull Hull, Gordon 2006-03-30
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; BRSA; pubs/drinking; railway community; work culture and relationships; conditions at work; open days; working on diesel; depots; changes in the railway industry; wages and overtime; engineer; ethnic minorities; British Rail; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; Stratford; Liverpool Street; Norwich; Colchester; Doncaster; Temple Mills; Barking; Brentwood; York; Harwich and Parkeston Quay; Felixstowe Johns, Mike 2005-05-09
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Scott Hellewell; childhood; work culture and relationships; memories of individuals; unions; management grades; British Rail; other industries; Second World War; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Bradford; Blandford; Morecambe; Darlington; York; Athens; Hamburg; Bonn; Wakefield; Hull; Settle; Carlisle; Manchester; Sheffield; Toronto Hellewell, Scott 2005-03-03
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Peter Cookson; childhood; family life; sport; religion; changes in the community; Big Four; ethnic minorities; other industries; retirement activity; pre-war; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Pontefract; Leeds; Bridlington; Ferrybridge; Bradford; Halifax; Castleford; Knottingley; Normanton; Featherstone; Wakefield; Doncaster; Goole; Sheffield; York; South Elmsall; Moorthorpe Cookson, Peter 2006-03-07
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Lew Adams; childhood; Railway Institute; railway community; work culture and relationships; anecdotes from the workplace; memories of individuals; canteens; working on steam; working on diesel; change from steam to diesel; depots; changes in the railway industry; wages and overtime; seniority; hostels; Mutual Improvement Class; fireman and driver training; firemen and driver examinations; unions; strikes; tension at work; cleaner; fireman; driver; secondman; local government; national politics; British Rail; other industries; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Margaret Thatcher; Dr Beeching; Harold Wilson; Barbara Castle; Shirley Williams; Stratford; Bletchley; Yarmouth; Peterborough; Chelmsford; March; Ispwich; Ely; Dagenham; Wickford; Romford; Bishopsgate; Gidea Park; Ilford; King's Cross; Bexley; Newham; Hertford; Paddington; Moscow; Milton Keynes Adams, Lew 2004-07-12; 2004-07-13
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
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Arthur Heaven; childhood; railway community; changes in the community; unions; local government; Big Four; BRSA; sport; other industries; pre-war; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Doncaster; Sheffield; Hexthorpe; Balby; Hyde Park Heaven, Arthur 2004-10-28
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; George Saville; childhood; world war one; world war two; sport; railway community; changes in the community; work culture and relationships; anecdotes from the workplace; memories of individuals; working on steam; working on diesel; change from steam to diesel; depots; wages and overtime; seniority; hostels; Mutual Improvement Class; fireman and driver training; unions; strikes; cleaner; fireman; secondman; driver; national politics; British Rail; ethnic minorities; retirement activity; pre-war; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Margaret Thatcher; Joan Littlewood; Dr Beeching; Stratford; Leyton; Malden; Witham; Chelmsford; Brentwood; Liverpool Street; Epping; Ongar; Temple Mills; Victoria; Silverton; Woolwich; Billingsgate; Romford; Dagenham; Angel Lane; Harlow; Basildon; Loughton; Ilford; Devons Road; Ripple Lane; Barking; London; Tilbury; Southend; Bishopsgate Saville, George 2004-09-17; 2004-09-20
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
footplate; cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; passed fireman; driver; d.o.b. 1917-12-25, railway work 1936-1976, Hellifield; Garsdale; Dent; Blackburn; Long Preston; Northampton; Willesden; William Chaffer 2001-03-12; 2001-03-29;
clerk; Royal Engineers; station master; goods agent; d.o.b. 1918-05-06, d. 2002-10-02, railway work 1936-1974, Albrighton; Gobowen; Lechlade; Chirk; Shrewsbury; Longmoor; Horbury; Thornliebank; Barton Stacey; Auchinwraith; Sudbury; Bombay; Calcutta Docks; Jalunda; New Delhi; Corwen; Longbridge; Newquay; Birmingham Snow Hill; Paddington; Bristol Temple Meads. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Windsor, Reginald George Wynn 2001-01-16; 2001-01-24
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
clerk; stationmaster's wife; Travelling Post Office; d.o.b. 1936, railway work 1955-1963, Helmsdale; Sinclair, Anne Holmes 2001-03-28
footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; shift foreman; area depot manager; train crew manager; motive power officer; assistant traction & train crew manager; exhibition trains; d.o.b. 1921-12-07, railway work 1921-1984, Weymouth; Bristol St Philips Marsh; Templecombe; Salisbury; Woking; Reading; Old Oak; Beckenham; Waterloo; Hither Green; London Victoria; Perry, Ken A. 2001-03-13
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
permanent way; lengthman; ganger; d.o.b. 1935, railway work 1963-1995, Scotscalder; Altnabreac; Georgemas Junction; Wick; Sinclair, Lewis 2001-03-28
traffic apprentice; Royal Engineers; assistant yard master; station master; chief trains clerk; area manager; marketing officer; passenger sales planning; passenger fares; chief passenger manager; retail manager; d.o.b. 1935-07-12, railway work 1958-1990, Barnsley; Wath Marshalling Yard; Darnall; Peterborough; Rotherham Yard; Spalding; Newcastle; Dundee; BRB Headquarters London; Chamberlain, Alan 2001-04-17
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
clerk; invoices, goods; passenger refunds; claims work; travelling ticket bureau; efficiency commissions; d.o.b. 1929-10-15, railway work 1929-1973, Nine Elms Goods Depot; Wimbledon Goods; Kingston Goods; Waterloo; Woking; Marylebone. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Greenfield, Harry Thomas (Tom) 2001-06-26
apprentice; electrical and mechanical engineering; locomotives; family; school; Cambridge University; English Electric Company; apprenticeship, piecework; apprenticeship, hours; Edge Hill Depot, Liverpool; locomotives; shedmasters; dieselisation; attitude; Sudan; conditions, weather; locomotive maintenance; illness; Kenya 1961-1963, load testing; diesel locomotives; conditions, high altitude; 1963, London, Finsbury Park and Stratford depots; EEC representative; locomotives Class 1-5, Deltic locomotives; manufacturer representatives; Crewe 100 AR6 locomotives; Roy Kelly; commissioning AR6s; Crewe electric traction depot; working practice; Doncaster Works staff; Walter Jarrett, engineer; Mr S.B. Warder, BRB Electrical Engineer; demonstrating electric locomotives; Shugborough Tunnel; attitude; test runs; incident in Sudan; repairs to AR6 locomotives; marriage; nose-suspended traction motors; electrification stock; attitude; marriage; Crewe; West Coast mainline; success of A6 locomotives; EEC-BR locomotive development collaboration; sales; contracts; 1968-1969 GEC, EEC, AEI; voluntary redundancy; SKF, different work practices; producing water jet boats; Westinghouse Co. 1974; Jubilee Line experimental tube train; Luke Marsden-Smedley, move to Hong Kong, 1977; house market, reaction of wife to move abroad; Hong Kong Mass Transit Corporation; rolling stock standards, Electric Multiple Units (EMU); Electrical Engineer; Design manager; GEC Traction, 1983; Singapore Metro, Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer; redundancy; wife's reaction; Stuart Scott, project director; responsibilities; comparison with Hong Kong; platform edge doors; energy conservation; railway architecture; London Underground, 1989; demise of engineering role; innovation; privatisation; retirement; Vintage Engineering Ltd; railway preservation. d.o.b. 1934-08-27, railway work 1950-1990s, Edge Hill; Sudan; Kenya; London; Stratford; Crewe; Hong Kong; Singapore; West Coast Mainline. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Vint, John 2000-06-01
Footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; sectional council; women engine cleaners; third man on engine; army service; weather, pea souper fog; reductions in depot; nationalisation; d.o.b. 1928-10-30, railway work 1944-1993, Nine Elms; Clapham Junction; Southern Region. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Lifford, Ronald Albert 2000-05-30
Journal, Great Northern Suburban Electrification, Progress Report No 1, including an article by Gordon Graham, with photograph, relating to the electrification of the East Coast Main Line. Livewire - Progress Report No 1 1974
A mixed collection of black and white and colour photographs of railway activities and railway staff, taken by Austin Brackenbury from 1948 to 1983 during his railway career as a signalman. Each photograph is captioned with details of date, place and subject. In addition the file contains photocopied articles of information relating to the photographs. A second file containing only copies of the photograph captions was also donated. Photographs of railway activities and railway staff, taken by Austin Brackenbury from 1948 to 1983 1948-1983
Black and white photographic print of the Centralised Accounts Office, Queen's Walk, Nottingham, taken by a colleague with Vera Pickett's camera. An informal portrait of Vera Pickett sat on a high office chair by the accounts machinery and in front of banks of filing cabinets. Black and white photographic print of the Centralised Accounts Office c. 1960s
Black and white photographic print of a group of eight women teachers being shown the latest machinery used in the Divisional Manager's Office Centralised Accounts at Queen's Walk in Nottingham. The machine is being demonstrated by Vera Foulger (later Pickett). Black and white photographic print of a group of eight women teachers being shown the latest machinery used in the Divisional Manager's Office Centralised Accounts at Queen's Walk in Nottingham 1959
Black and white photographic print of the Centralised Accounts Office, Queen's Walk, Nottingham, taken with Vera Pickett's camera. lack and white photographic print of the Centralised Accounts Office, Queen's Walk, Nottingham circa 1960s
Black and white photographic print showing a group of nine staff from the London Midland & Scottish Railway Research Department standing on a locomotive footplate. Dorothy Smith (who later married Peter Dunn) is second from right. From left to right the group are: W. George; F. Mawby; F. Saunders; R. Atkinson; H. Reader; H. Smith; J. Fearn; D. Smith (Dorothy); M. Stevens. photograph circa 1940-1949
Black and white photographic print. Portrait of Dorothy Smith seated in front of her typewriter. Dorothy was secretary to Dr F.C. Johansen, Deputy Scientific Research Manager and Chief Engineering Research Officer, at BR (London Midland Region) Research Laboratories, Derby. She later married Peter Dunn, who was also a member of staff at the Research Laboratories. Black and white photographic print. Portrait of Dorothy Smith seated in front of her typewriter circa 1940-1949
Black and white photographic print. Informal group portrait of three staff members from the Research Laboratories, from left to right Dorothy Smith, secretary to Dr F.C. Johansen (Deputy Scientific Research Manager and Chief Engineering Research Officer); Fred West (Metallurgy section); Dorothy Howard, secretary to Dr O'Neill (Head of Metallurgy). Black and white photographic print circa 1940-1949
Internal correspondence letter of the London Midland & Scottish Railway from A.W. F. Rogerson, Kentish Town, Motive Power Department for the District Locomotive Superintendent, to Mr R.A. Morgan asking him to attend for a medical examination on 1936-10-14, as part of his application for employment with the Company. Internal correspondence letter of the London Midland & Scottish Railway from A.W. F. Rogerson 1936-10-13
Rail Magazine colour supplement promoting Regional Railways,fifty-four pages, includes information on the Regional Railways business, rolling stock, electrification, the profit centre regions of Regional Railways. Magazine suuplement 'The Renaissance of Regional Railways', c 1992 1986-1996
5 black & white photographs of a derailment of a sleeping car train at Lincoln. Photographs of derailment of sleeping car train at Lincoln (supplied title)
goods, junior clerk, class 4; inspecting officer; public relations; releif booking clerk; commercial department; travel centre; interview; entrance exam; medical centre; horse drawn traffic; number taking; outward truck section; cartage; British Transport Police; self-improvement; railway culture; incident; conditions; uniforms; APTIS; TRIBUTE machine, introduction; disciplinary procedures; staff recalled; murder; demotivation; d.o.b. 1946-02-26, railway work 1961-1996, Ipswich goods station; Norwich general offices; Liverpool Street; Bishopsgate offices; Harold Wood; Southend Line; York; North Eastern Region; Eastern Region; Anglia Railways. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Feakes, David Mervyn 2000-08-11; 2000-08-18
signalling; box lad; telegraph lad; signalman; area inspector; royal train inspector; Transmark; father's work on railways; learning single needle telegraph as a schoolboy; starting work with a shipbuilding firm; first job on railway, box lad, Boothferry Road; transfer to Doncaster, telegraph lad; different systems between GNR and GCR; National Service, two years in RAF; first job as a signalman; relief signalman; conditions (shifts, weekends); marriage; working conditions; travelling between jobs; Acting Temporary Divisional Inspector; Area Inspector; involvement in derailments and incidents; Signalbox Supervisor; experience of handling fatalities; Chief Divisional Signalling Inspector; involvement in resignalling schemes; Area Relief Manager; experience of Miners' Strike; Chief Regional Signalling Inspector; signalling schemes, OCS, NX, IECC; Royal Train Inspector; Great Storm, 1987; secondment to Malaysia with Transmark; d.o.b. 1933-01-21, railway work 1948-1994, Doncaster; Malaysia. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Briggs, Geoffrey 2000-11-16; 2000-11-30
apprentice; carriage and wagon works; foreman; wagon shops, apprentice; Hush Hush locomotive; first aid; leisure; Annesley; wagon repairer, Second World War; private owner wagons; pay; promotion; evening classes, examinations; Assist District C&W Foreman; District C&W Foreman, 1958, training; cripple wagons; diesel railcars; regional policy differences; brake and heater problems; derailments; redundancy; special wagons; d.o.b. 1922-02-09, railway work 1937-1984, Lincoln; Doncaster; Gorton Works; Grimsby; Immingham; Attenborough, George 2001-01-31
apprentice; assistant to chief of motive power; shedmaster; divisional mechanical inspector; assistant motive power superintendent; district motive power assistant; assistant to motive power officer; maintenance assistant; assistant line maintenance engineer; line maintenance engineer; carriage and wagon engineer; rolling stock maintenance engineer, British Rail Headquarters; chief mechanical and electrical engineer, Scottish Region; London Midland Region; chairman, Railway Division, Institute of Mechanical Engineers; d.o.b. 1920-03-17, railway work 1936-1981, Horwich; Newton Heath; Watford; Macclesfield; Lower Darwen, Blackburn; Holyhead; Manchester; Neasden; Carnforth; Paddington; Derby; Woking; King's Cross; Scottish Region; Birmingham; Liverpool; West Coast Main Line; Clements, Frederick George (Fred) M.B.E. 2001-01-29
