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Garlick, Gladys

2002-12-06

footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; training; work conditions; freight, coal; lodgings Second World War; freight, ammunition; air raids; electric locomotives; passenger trains; accidents; Beyer Garratt; d.o.b. 1901-11-21, railway work: 1918-1966, London and North Eastern Railway; Doncaster; Manchester-Sheffield-Wath line; Woodhead tunnel;

Sheridan, George Mosby

2000-05-24

Made during the interview training session. The Interview was between a career Signalling and Telegraph Engineer and a career Traction and Rolling Stock Engineer, whose careers were both with British Rail. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Robin Nelson/David Russell

2000-04-17

messenger; porter; guard; relief stationmaster; controller; Royal Engineers; First Aid movement; "wages" grade posts; wartime experiences; Royal Engineers; railways in France and India; railway First Aid movement. d.o.b. 1916-11-23. railway work 1931-1979. Barnsley. 2.8346 x 3.1496 x .315 in.

Harper, Hollin

2000-06-22

footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; special trains, Grand National; control; train crew supervisor; incidents, derailment; childhood, Bury, cellar boy in cotton mill, bar lad; passed cleaner, fireman, Second World War, driver, qualifying examination; banking procedures, gradients; transfer to clerical grade, control; Woodhall Tunnel; 200 engines; Aintree Depot, Grand National; Grand National; footplate strike, Carlisle Canal Depot; road training (Glasgow); Carlisle Kingmoor; new marshalling yard; freightliner; weather 1962 (snow); detraining incident; Settle-Carlisle line (London-Edinburgh train); Carlisle Kingmoor; Christmas; Carlisle Kingmoor; d.o.b. 1939-07-12 . railway work 1939-1984. Woodhall Tunnel; Aintree depot; Carlisle Kingmoor; Derby Training School; Stratford

Berry, James John (Jim)

2000-07-18

junior clerk, sundries division; guard; relief supervisor; traffic manager; line manager; pannier tank; entrance exam; invoicing; move from rail to road; Advanced Traffic Information (ATI) shunting; treatment of staff; Total Operation Processing System (TOPS); militancy; resistance to change; management training; shunting, "off the road"; steel strike; depot closed; redundancy; fatality; booking office; coal marshalling; mail; newspapers; train crew; reorganisation; staff rapport; privatisation; reorganisation; timber by rail; reductions in level crossings; improvements of infrastructure; political and financial issues; local management; d.o.b. 1952-09-16, railway work 1968-active staff at date of Interview. Birmingham New Street; Aston Goods; Winson Green; Moor Street; Saltley; Washwood Heath; Great Bridge Steel terminal; Cashmore Sidings; Coventry; Rugby Leamington; Isle of Wight; Three Spires Marshalling Yard; Llwyngwril; Freightliner; National Carriers; Cambrian Coast Express;

Bridges, L.W.A. (Larry)

2003-01-31

engineering apprentice; improver; draughtsman trainee; first day experience of works; personalities; turning section; washing facilities; work practice, rotation; Second World War; women on the railways; reduced demensions, metal saving; attitudes in wartime; motive power; methods and experience; steam locmotive experience; class 'H' freight; Firing and driving, London Midland & Scottish 3Fs; fitted freights; compound; Jubilee 5656, lost cylinder cover; divisional motive power office; locomotive testing section; highest steaming rates; British Rail (BR) '5', Austerities 2-8-0; 2-10-0 tests; performance; fitted coach train test; Westinghouse; d.o.b. 1929-01-03, railway work 1943-1956, Derby Works, No 9 Shop; Derby Motive Power Depot, station; Chaddesden Sidings; Brunswick, Liverpool; Stratford motive Power Depot; Westerleigh; London St Pancras; Trafford Park; Annan; Dumfries; Stratford Motive Power Depot; Holyhead; Euston; London Midland & Scottish (LMS);

Webb, Pat

2003-01-29

footplate, knocker-up, cleaner, fireman, driver; d.o.b. 1922-06- 19; railway work 1937-1985. Birmingham. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Alcock, Gwilyn Tudor

2000-06-06

Made during the interview training session. 1940s-1990s. relief station clerk; personnel; traffic management scheme; reorganisation; local departmental committees; sectional councils; trade unions; business-led organisation; privatisation; Lincoln; Doncaster; Retford; York; Sheffield; Leeds. : 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Vessey, John

2000-04-17

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

Jones, Vera

2003-01-30

footplate, cleaner, fireman; clerk, accounts, supplies. d.o.b. 1921-09-15; railway work 1945-1985. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Rice, Walter

2000-06-08

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

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

Payne, Philip

2003-01-24

apprenticeship; technical assistant; assistant works manager; premium apprentice; post war shortage of materials; installation of oil facilities; dieselisation programme; training courses; high capacity of coal wagons, merry-go-round trains; information for new equipment; new materials used for wagon sheets; containers; Second World War, experiences; wartime work; nationalisation; first run of Silver Fox; first mainline diesel run end of 1940s; d.o.b. 1921-09-15, railway career 1939-1983, York Goods Station; York Carriage and Wagon Works; Darlington Locomotive Works; Banktop Shed; Cowlairs Carriage and Wagon Works; Wolverhampton; Railway Technical Centre, Derby; Shildon; Horwich foundry; North Eastern Railway (NER); BREL; Freightliner;

Cooper, Richard Lister

2003-04-23

call lad; lad porter; signal lamp man; guard; ticket inspector; railway horses; special trains; freight shunting; weaseling; circus trains; royal train; football trains; breakdown crane; Second World War; conditions, hours; braking incidents; reporting incidents; carriage arrangements; George Unwin, Cyril Rose; station toilets; signals; training; travelling porter; signing the road; royal train; staff acommodation; conductor guard; ticket inspector; fare dodgers; coal train; 1953 floods; accident van; derailments; Ray Constable (crane driver), Jim Rayner (crane driver); father's work on railway; brothers' work on railway; family working on same train; reshaping of the railways; Beeching closures; Mr Marples; trade union, closed shop working; branchline closures; Channel Tunnel; Guards and Shunters Conference; electrification; staff discipline; d.o.b. 1917-02-24; railway work 1941-1991. Cambridge; Newmarket; Ely; Ipswich; Hunstanton; Wolvinton. 2.9528 x 3.3465 x .315 in.

Sheldrick, Sidney Harry

2000-06-14

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

Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Ronald Kennedy; Flying Scotsman

Kennedy, Ronald

2005-06-22

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

Adam, John

2001-05-02

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

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

McKenna, David CBE

2000-11-09

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

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

stationmaster's wife. Lumphanan; Dornoch; Brora;

Sim, Jean

2001-03-27

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

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

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;

booking clerk; cartage; public affairs; passenger commercial; marketing assistant; acting passenger manager; exhibition trains; Merrymaker excursion trains; zonal fares; 1930-04-14, railway work 1944-1985, Brighton; Clapham Junction; Redhill; Tidworth; Woking College; Waterloo; Euston. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Hayler, Michael

2001-08-08

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

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

MacLean, A.A. (Sandy)

2001-07-04

signalbox lad; clerk; porter; traffic apprentice; goods depots; assistant yard master; assistant area manager; Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); coding; data; team; training; implementaion; project management; TRUST; d.o.b. 1937, railway work 1954-1994, Stcoport; Manchester; Nuneaton; London Euston; Toton, Derby; Watford; Watford; Willesden; Crewe; Aylesbury; East Anglia; Northeast region; Scottish region;

Spedding, Peter Hamilton

2001-01-22

Travelling Post Office; d.o.b. 1933-06-26, c. 1950s, Birmingham; Newcastle;

Crumpton, John Thomas

2001-04-02

footplate, cleaner, fireman; driving instructor; area inspector (signalling); chief area inspector; station manager; area terminals manager; terminals assistant; traffic manager; train crew manager; operations standards manager; service delivery manager; d.o.b. 1938-04-22, railway work 1954-1996, East Markham; Rampton; Maltby; Dinnington; Doncaster; Scarborough; Bridlington; Cleethorpes; Mablethorpe; Skegness; Ilford; King's Lynn; Retford; Gainsborough; March; Ely; Peterborough; Cambridge; London King's Cross;

Athey, David

2001-03-20; 2001-03-21;

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

Walker, Joseph

2001-05-15

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

Fullick, Derrick Frank

2001-06-02

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

Forrester, Helen Elizabeth (Betty)

2001-07-13

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