office boy; carriage works apprentice; training, carriage construction; drawing office; work study; Winston Churchill's funeral; carriage repairs; general manager's saloon; derailments, continuous welded rail; exhibition trains; weather; wagons, claims, maintenance; privatisation; nuclear industry; Transmark; consultancy; TOPS; d.o.b. 1935-10-06, railway work: 1950-c.1990s, BR Southern Region; London Brighton & South Coast Railway; London Transport; South Eastern & Chatham Railway; Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais (SNCF); Transfera; Rank Xerox; Post Office; New Zealand Railways; English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS); Lancing carriage works; Brighton; Micheldever; London; Eastleigh works; Portsmouth; Southampton; Eastleigh locomotive shed; Slade Green electric sheds; London Victoria station; Stewarts Lane; Waterloo & City line; Isle of Wight; Acton London Transport Executive works; Wimbledon depot; Clapham junction; Bournemouth; Hastings; Ashford works; London Waterloo station; Croydon; Poole; Weymouth; New Crossgate works; Dunkirk; Salisbury; Eastern Europe; Ulster; Belfast; Selhurst; Swindon; London King's Cross; York; Sellafield; Australia; Derby; Meaby, Arthur James Oral Histories 2002-04-29
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 Oral Histories 2006-08-23
machine operator; riveter; technical college, lathe operation and tool making; wheel shop, war work on shells; machining bands to correct gauge; shift patterns; meal breaks; first experience of mixed work force; transfer form machine shop, frame shop; lack of protective clothing; problems with blackout; description of riviting work; bench work; privitisation of works, change in standards; method of payment; intensity of job; d.o.b. 1925-05-19, railway work: 1942-1948, Wolverton; Stony Stratford; Coventry; Blackpool; Wolverton Works; Pateman, Marjorie Oral Histories 2002-08-28
premium apprentice; A.J. Cook; training; drawing office; conditions; progressman; locomotive repair; acting shed master; supervisory shed foreman; relief mechanical foreman; derailment; steam locomotive speed tests; diesel railcar; locomotive shed master; L.P. Parker; O.S. Nock; mutual improvement class; weather, snow; LNER Pacific locomotives; locomotive inspections; mileage; overhauls; Clean Air Act; Local Departmental Committee (LDC); managing footplate staff; discipline, exceeding speed restrictions; Deltic locomotives; technical and rolling stock assistant; maintenance schedule; Class 31 locomotives; end of Divisional maintenance organisation; voluntary redundancy; d.o.b. 1925-08-13, railway work: 1941- , London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS); Midland Railway; Great Central Railway; Great Northern Railway; Hull & Barnsley Railway; Midland & Great Northern Railway; British Rail Eastern Region; Great Western Railway; British Rail Western Region; London Midland Region; Ffestiniog Railway; Gresley Society; A1 Steam Locomotive Trust; Flying Scotsman Association; A4 Society; Doncaster works; Roundwood; Rossington; Doncaster Carr yard; Hornsea; Scarborough; Colwyn Bay; Crewe; Wigan Mining and Technical College; Crimpsall works; Barkeston junction; Ipswich; Norwich; Melton Constable; Cromer Beach shed; Stratford works; Yarmouth; Lowestoft; Leicester; Cambridge; Bury St Edmunds; March; Ely; Mildenhall; London Liverpool Street; Peterborough; London King's Cross; Claypole; London Marylebone; Sheffield; Manchester; Woodhead tunnel; Stoke Bank; Skegness; Hemerdon Bank; Plymouth; Hatfield; Dunstable; Luton; Hitchin; Boston; Grantham; Edinburgh; Newcastle; Edinburgh Haymarket shed; Kentish Town shed; Letchworth; Connington; Melbourne, Australia; Salt River locomotive works, Bloemfontein, Bethlehem, Cape Town, Natal, South Africa; Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); Vancouver, Ontario, Quebec, Canada; Townend, Peter Norman Oral Histories 2002-05-31
clerk; signal and telecommunications department; signal maintenance office; telecommunications; Provincial Railways; investment; InterCity; Product Implementation Assistant; Trading Manager, privatisation; d.o.b. 1962-01-27, railway work 1979-1994, York; Keedby Swing Bridge; Immingham; Lincoln; Peterbrough; Doncaster; Newcastle; Morpeth curve; Settle-Carlisle Line; King's Cross; Knowles, Pamela Oral Histories 2001-10-10
locomotive works apprentice; draughtsman; drawing office; locomotive building, maintenance, repair; conditions, hours, discipline, uniform, tools, shifts, working conditions, washing, heating; women workers; Second World War; tracings; design office; d.o.b. 1924-03-28, railway work: 1939-1946, Southern Railway; Eastleigh locomotive works; Goble, Peter Eric Oral Histories 2002-04-11
clerical posts; O.V.S. Bullied, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME); records centre, rolling stock; double deck rolling stock; delays to trains; wagon unloading; Freight sundries; General Manager's office Waterloo; trolleys and tractors; electrification Isle of Wight; collection and delivery traffic; National Parcels plan; automated baggage; working conditons in railway offices; d.o.b. 1928-04-12, railway work: 1949-1984, Somerset; Easleigh Works, Southampton; Cario; London; Borough Markey Junction; Woking; Salisbury and Isle of Wight; Waterloo; Harrogate; York; Southern Railway; British Rail; London Midland Region (LMR); Southern Region (SR); Compton, Hugh John Oral Histories 2002-10-24
footplate, cleaner-driver;driver training; depot supervisor; incidents; housing; childhood, London, Swansea; Swansea Eastern depot; cleaning; first firing turn; Second World War; Mumbles railway; lodging; derailment; military special trains; routes, Banbury; meeting wife; grandfather's job, tram driver; move to Chester; home turn; Birmingham; lodgings; phlumonia cabin 1946-47; Old Oak Common; nationalisation, standard locomotive classes; weather, fog; gas turbine locomotives; diesel hydraulic locomotives; tutor drivers, problems, fault guides; tutor drivers; brake tenders; "Long Tom"; "top eight link"; passed fireman; diesel training inspector; radar gun; annual rides; Class 1000 diesel; speed, location in minutes; Class 1000 diesel; auto car turns; VJ Day troop train firing at Old Oak Common; Lambeth link; link vacuum freights; GWR 47XX heavy freight locomotives; condensing tanks; weir pump; Smithfield meat market; London Underground length limit; fireman; driver; lodging; double home turn; landladies; Bert Potter, royal train driver; No. 4 link, Swansea passenger; inaugural Pullman; Britannia Class locomotives, Severn Tunnel; Paddington-Shrewsbury mileage turn; Blue Pullmans; Bristolian; mileage turn payments; conditions, shifts, wife's reactions; accident, West Ealing, 1973, inquiry, inquest; Southall depot supervisor; Southall drivers' duties; preparing train sets, crew diagrams; Ealing; guards' duties, Greenford; ticket machines; Slough, Southall, management alterations; AAM, Train Crews; Slough, platform supervisor; "bridgebashes"; incident, level crossing; retirement; railway housing; d.o.b. 1926-11-20; railway work 1942-1991. Swansea; Banbury; Slough; London. Holder, Albert Edward (Bert) Oral Histories 2000-07-21; 2000-07-28
apprentice steam fitter; fitter; d.o.b. 1939-02-26,railway work c. 1954-1970, Ilford; interviewed Steeple View, Basildon Fynn, Peter Henry Oral Histories 2001-06-16
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. Oral Histories 2001-04-19; 2001-04-26;
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 Oral Histories 2002-02-13
cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; passed fireman; driver; train crew supervisor, manager; relief manager; description of work; export coal; import fruit and vegetables; engineers trains; sleeper depots; "pick-up" freight trains; theatre specials; excursions; Beeching cuts; loan experience; night freight; link to link promotion; lodgings; Yorkshire, Tyne Tees Pullman; "Elizabethan"; oiling central motions, Gresley Pacifics; socialising; marriage; Deltics; shunting; piloting; promotion, relief link; rail car; signalling exam; driver only operation; platform security; relief manager; signalbox fire; station cleaning; delayed passengers; track cleaning; suicides; redundancy; d.o.b. 1932-01-01, railway work 1947-1989, Boston; Mablethorpe; Peterborough; Skegness; Neasden; Old Oak Common; King's Cross; Hull; Edinburgh; Hitchin; Broxholme; Darlington; Brighton; Aldrington; Watford; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); Clarke, Peter Brinkley Oral Histories 2003-04-14
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 Oral Histories 2001-05-08
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 Oral Histories 2002-12-05
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 Oral Histories 2001-04-10
junior goods clerk; signalling and telegraph probationer; lineman; installer; traffic apprentice; power lineman; mobile maintenance team; freight clerk; timetable planning; Beeching proposals; consultation; manipulated costings; freight depot manager; National Carriers Limited; assistant area manager docks and commercial; TOPS, Total Operations Processing System; assistant area manager terminals; parcels; BR management; d.o.b. 1935-03-10, railway work: 1950-1985, MR, Midland Railway; LNWR, London & North Western Railway; GNR, Great Northern Railway; LMS, London Midland & Scottish Railway; NLR, North London Railway; NSR, North Staffordshire Railway; S&DJR, Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway; National Carriers Limited; GWR, Great Western Railway; Railway Inspectorate; Kettering motive power depot; Kettering goods; Market Harborough; Seaton; Uppingham; Winston Magna; Rugby; Wigston South; Bedford; Kentish Town; Gospel Oak Bank; Dalston; Bow Junction; Uttoxeter; Camden; London St Pancras; Perth; Edinburgh Lothian Road Goods; Falkland yard, Ayr; Hawick; Whitrope; Perth; Coatbridge; Aberdeen; Glasgow; Waverley; Newport Alexandra docks; Pontypridd; Radyr; Cardiff; Swindon; Buckie; Keith; Edinburgh; Wilkinson, Brian Oral Histories 2002-05-06;
junior clerk, permanent way inspector's office; relief clerk; continental department; continental claims department; freight; claims; Sealink; d.o.b. 1923-04-02, period c. 1937-1982, Bournemouth; Southampton; London; Chilton, Bob Oral Histories 2001-10-23
entrance exam; junior clerk; coal sales, newspaper sales; parcels clerk; working conditions; ethnic minority workers; staff investigator; staff suggestions; management training; personnel; infrastructure services; privatisation; Railtrack; d.o.b. 1948-05-29, railway work 1965-2001, Hebbon; Benton; Gateshead; Newcastle; Liverpool Street; Birmingham Curzon Street; The Grove, Watford; Severn Valley Railway; Denholm, Michael John Oral Histories 2001-09-12
apprentice; mechanical engineer; various technical positions; Bullied pacifics, redesign; improver, production planning office; assessing locomotive running costs, 1930s; intensive use second world war; lack of compensation for railway war work; main drawing office; Ted Fox, Frank Carrier, 2-8-0, 2-10-0 WD locomotives; R.A. Riddles; mobile testing units; dynamometer car; first mainline diesel electric locomotive; 1947; nationalisation; Roland Bond; Sir Nigel Gresley; details of testing equipment, locomotives; Dr Andrews; vehicle vibration studied in USA; coal hauling; gas turbines; Pullman car works; Stewart Cox; modernisation plan; diesel and electric motive power; comparison of different methods of traction; differntial between size of railway and the number of HQ staff; d.o.b. 1922-02-13, railway work 1939-1981, Harpenden; Tilbury; Capetown; Derby; London Road; Rugby; USA; San Francisco; New York; London; Jarvis & Co; London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMSR); University of IIlinois; Brtish Rail; Norfolk & North Western Railway; Virginia and Norfolk Railroad; Baldwin locomotive Works; General Electric Plant; Milwaulkee Railroad; British Rail Board (BRB). Jarvis, James Michael Oral Histories 2002-11-15
junior messenger; junior accounts clerk; ticketing; engineers accounts; pay; personnel; decimalisation; West Coast Main Line; computerisation; d.o.b. 1920-06-25, railway work 1935-1982, Willesden; Camden; The Grove, Watford; Birmingham; Brooks, Ted Oral Histories 2001-08-29
porter; shunter; chargeman, parcels concentration depot; rest day relief supervisor; platform supervisor; work conditions; marshalling; promotion of ethnic minority staff; father, an Indian immigrant; passenger relations; d.o.b. 1937-07-08, railway work: 1958-1996, Leeds Central station; Neville Hill; Leeds parcels concentration depot; Leeds City station; Ali, Muhammed Rashid Ronald Oral Histories 2002-01-30
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Ronald Kennedy; Flying Scotsman Kennedy, Ronald Oral Histories 2005-06-22
trainspotting; shunter; guard/conductor; rail cars; Beeching; industrial action; travelling ticket collector; ticket fraud; football traffic; enquiry office clerk; freightliner; ticket inspector; commercial instructor; assistant chief ticket inspector; chief ticket inspector; chief station supervisor; assistant station manager; royal train; privatisation; d.o.b. 1932-06-29, railway work: 1960-1993, Eastern Region; London Midland Region; Freightliner; English Electric Company; Brush; Witham goods yard; Stratford; Witham-Maldon; Colchester; London Liverpool Street; Fenchurch Street; London Euston; Wembley; Southend; Smith, Michael John Oral Histories 2002-02-15
civil engineering; LNER; Royal Engineers; East Coast Main Line; weather, flooding; signalling and telegraph department; work study; training; productivity; material handling officer; BRB Headquarters; parcels; BRUTES, freight pallets; London Airport Rail Link; d.o.b. 1920-10-09, railway work 1940-1975, Edinburgh; Fort William; Western Region; Reading; Glasgow Technical College; Woking Staff College; Cosgrove, John Travers Oral Histories 2001-10-24
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 Oral Histories 2001-11-29
engine cleaner; conditions; redundant; porter; senior porter; return to footplate; Second World War; Royal Engineers, 191 Railway Operating Company; fireman; driver; posted to India; Indian Railway Company; ambulance trains; demobilisation; passed fireman; floods; driver; running foreman; Deltics; royal train; d.o.b. 1919-06-09, railway work: 1937-1982, LNER, London & North Eastern Railway; SNCF, Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais; Bengal and Assam Railway; Tweedmouth shed; Eyemouth; Burnmouth; Gateshead; Longmoor; France, Liege, Boulogne; Belgium, Ath; Dover; Tidworth; London; Watford; Dorking; Derby; Bushey; Neasden shed; Liverpool; Clyde; Sierra Leone, Freetown; South Africa, Cape Town; India, Bombay, Calcutta, Nagpur, Kidderpore, Darjeeling; Burma; Egypt, Port Said; Berwick; Kelso; St Boswells; Newcastle; Edinburgh; York; East Coast Main Line; Goswick; North Wylam; Newcastle Heaton shed; Newcastle Central station; Miller, David Walker Oral Histories 2002-03-27
booking and wages clerk; small station work, traffic, duties; d.ob. 1930-4-20, railway work c.1947-1950, Faringdon; Marlow; Jones, Monica Eileen Oral Histories 2001-09-26
clerical officer (CO5), (CO2), (CO3), (CO1), Special B Class; contracts manager; motive power depot; Chief Operating Manager's Office; civil defence work; special A class; General manager's Office, budgets; finance section; traffic economies; sundries division; parcels; staff relation problems; d.o.b. 1925-11-08, railway work: 1952-1990, France; Plymouth; Bristol; Bath Road; London Paddington; Reading; Park Royal; British Rail; Southern Region; National Freight Corporation; National Carriers; Rolph, Eric Arthur Oral Histories 2002-10-15
traffic management trainee; area freight assistant; station master; yard manager; customer services manager; suburban services manager; operations development manager; project management; changing practices in freight; air brakes; closure; view of management; London Transport links; reorganization; managing change; rail simulation; business management; d.o.b. 1954, railway work: 1976 - present (see record created date), Liverpool Street; Garforth, Leeds; Whitemoor Yard; Ely; Svern Tunnel Junction; Newport; Gloucester; Watford; Southern Region; South East Division; Network SouthEast (NSE); VST Comreco Rail Ltd. York; Barter, William Oral Histories 2002-12-03
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Chris Phillips; family life; sport; religion; railway community; changes in the community; working on diesel; change from steam to diesel; depots; changes in the railway industry; unions; instructor; management grades; Big Four; British Rail; privatisation; other industries; National Service; Second World War; retirement activity; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Dr Beeching; the Queen; Sheffield; Tinsley; Hull; Darnall; London; Doncaster; Conisbrough; Scarborough; Filey; Rotherham; Dunkirk; Woodhead; Paignton; Dronfield; Dronfield Woodhouse Phillips, Chris Oral Histories 2006-02-13
lamp lad; train register boy; goods porter; porter/shunter; footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; diesel training; lodgings; dieselisation; electric locomotives; weather, snow, fog; Local Departmental Committee; industrial action, 1955, 1982; flexible rostering; trade union; pension; d.o.b. 1925-07-15, railway work: 1941-1990, London and North Eastern Railway (LNER); Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); Staddlethorpe; Pocklington; Bridlington; Holbeck; London; Glasgow; Birmingham; Carlisle; Settle-Carlisle; Pudsey; Morris, William (Bill) Oral Histories 2002-03-06
railway station catering; Selby station tea room, waitress, cleaner; duties; children's holiday trains; conditions, working hours; travel to work; Selby station, living in; Second Word War; d.o.b. 1910-11-01, railway work: c. 1930-1945 (?), Selby; Cawthray, Marjorie (nee Stead) Oral Histories 2002-05-24
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 Oral Histories 2002-07-08
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) Oral Histories 2000-08-24
junior clerk; goods clerk; work study practitioner, organisation methods; assistant goods agents; goods agent; four years probation; working conditions; horse drawn vehicles; examinations; 1948 nationalisation; mechanisation; management training; national carriers; conditions of service; d.o.b. 1930-06-18, railway work 1944-1988, Wolverhampton; West Bromwich; Birmingham; Stoke; Shrewsbury; British Rail; National Freight Corporation; Hubbard, Peter Gilbert Oral Histories 2003-01-23
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) Oral Histories 2002-04-19
clerk, staff section; secretary to sectional council; Assistant Industrial Relations Officer; Industrial Relations Officer; Principal Industrial Relations Officer, BRB; superannuation; employment conditions; sectional council; Railway Staff Conference joint sub-committee; pay; negotiating; footplate staff; Railway Staff National Tribunal; local departmental committees (LDC); industrial relations courses; conductor guards; trade unions; Railway Study Association; d.o.b. 1921-03-13, railway work: 1939-1981, Great Western Railway; MI5; Royal Air Force (RAF); London Midland Region; British Rail headquarters; Southern Region; National Union of Railwaymen; Industrial Relations Tribunal; Aldermaston; London Paddington; London Euston; New Lodge, Windsor training college; London Waterloo; Darlington; Dillington House, Ilminster; Brighton; Wickes, John William Oral Histories 2002-04-11
Recording not to be made available until 01.01.2009. management trainee; assistant manager; deputy manager; manager; description of kitchen life; rigourous training, food handling, early starts; supplies; guests arrived and departed by train; station refreshment rooms; comparison of differing rail company methods; training exchange with Swiss; on train snack meals, special trains, festival of Britain; food rationing; nationalisation; competition from local restaurants; regular moves around the group; tricks of the trade; celebrities, other guests; royal train; football connections; food supply; standards of various countris; emergencies with staffing; union arguements; Kosher licence; TV and sporting awards; advantages of modern design; butchery department experiment; new staffing levels; comments on layout and function of different hotels in chain; live-in life, effect on children; d.o.b. 1920-06-26, railway work 1937-1942, Linerick; Manchester; Sale; Gleneagles; Manchester Central station; Switzerland; Basle and Montreux; Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool; Queens Hotel Birmingham; Charing Cross Hotel; Caledonian Hotel, Liverpool; St Pancras; St Enoch Hotel, Glasgow; Switzerland; Queens Hotel, Leeds; North British Hotel, Edinburgh; London Midland & Scottish (LMS); Southern Region (SR); British Transport Hotels (BTH); Turnberry; Newcastle United; Glasgow Rangers; McGuire, Jack Oral Histories 2003-02-04
junior clerk; duties; accounts; ocean liners; station control clerk; First Aid; weather, Tamar Valley Railway; Beeching Report; traffic, fruit, flowers, sugar beet; camping coaches; Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA); freight; conditions, hours, pay; cartage; dieselisation; d.o.b. 1933-05-08, railway work: 1949-1994, Bere Alston; Somerset & Dorset Railway; Templecombe; Bath; Plymouth; Tamar Valley Railway; Penzance; Newton Abbott; London Paddington; Bruges; Boulogne; Newport; Calstock; Gunnislake; Devizes; London Waterloo; Snell, John Oral Histories 2001-10-10; 2002-07-17;
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 Oral Histories 2002-05-22
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 Oral Histories 2003-01-16
locomotive manufacturer drawing office; tracer; chief tracer; draughtswoman; tracing and drawing tasks; rolling stock; wagons; use of photography in drawing office; relationships between men and women in workplace; decline of railway work at locomotive manufacturers; diversification; railway modelling magazine "Model Railway News"; railway travel; d.o.b. 1934-01-25, railway work: 1950-1961, Richard Sutcliffe & Co.; Charles Roberts & Co.; East African Railways; Horbury, Wakefield; Kelso, Brenda Nancy (nee Hemingway) Oral Histories 2002-04-23
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 Oral Histories 2002-02-02
railway family; shorthand typist, welfare department, first aid section; St John's Ambulance, first aid competitions; canteen and dining room section; office environment; collecting dogs for Southern Railway Servants' Orphanage / Woking Children's Home; nationalisation; conditions, pay, perks, free travel; welfare provision; Hospital Savings Association; railway prisoners of war, Second World War; Railway Clerks' Association (RCA); d.o.b. 1930-03-13, railway work: 1946-1952, Southern Railway headquarters, Waterloo; Southern Railway Servants' Orphanage; Woking Children's Home; Cannon Street station; Deepdene House, Dorking; Gillingham station; Rainham station; Wanstall, Pamela Ann Oral Histories 2002-07-08
lamp-boy/lamp man; signal box lad; signalman class 5, 3, 2; relief signalman; interview; depot recalled; engine and brakevan, collecting coal; duties, shifts described; destribution of lamps and cleaning with pumice; coaches described; Second World War, blackout of boxes, duties, telephones, ground discs; relationships with signalmen, shift arrangements; description of locomotive depot, turntable, triangles; cleaning of signal levers; box described; sidings; traffics described; Tyers 2-way Absolute Block; promotion; bomb trains, tank engines, spark-arresters; Staff & Ticket System; shunting, sugar beet trains; sugar transportation; further promotion; Permissive Block and Wrong Direction working; horsebox wagons; horse shunting; "Footballer Class" locomotives; incidents; circus trains; collision, enquiry; emergency bell codes; closures "Clauds" (D16); 1500s (B12); Beeching years; traffic decline; electrification; remains of stations and earthworks; releif signalman duties and conditins; single line working; closure of intermediate boxes; panel working, incremental change; pilotman; barrier duties; last turn of duty; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), branch secretary; d.o.b. 1929-06-25, railway work 1944-1994, Bury St Edmunds, locomotive depot, Eastgate, Junction Box, Goods Yard; Ipswich-Cambridge; Warren Hill Sidings (Newmarket); Thetford Branch line (Ingham, Seven Hills Halt, Barnham & Thetford Bridge; Long Melford; Saxham; Highham); Kennett, signal box; Chippenham Junction; Thurston; Colchester Power Box; Cippenham Junction (east); Warren Hill Juction (west); Snailwell Junction (north); Whelnetham; Cockfield; Lavenham; StowmarketWhitemoor; Elmswell; Thurston; Manningtree; Cambridge; Ely; March; Norwich; Mellis box; Diss Flordon; Haughley Junction; Needham Market; Claydon; Ardleigh Box; Finnigham; Flordon; Chippenham Junction; Dullingham; Six Mile Bottom; Fulbourn; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); Bumpstead, Arthur Oral Histories 2002-10-07
apprentice fitter; fitter; steam locomotives; diesel locomotives; shed layout; training; High Speed Train (HST); works closure; work demarcation; conditions, pay, poor environment, shifts, bonus scheme, culture; inspection; diesel multiple unit (DMU); safety; Deltic locomotives; repairs; maintenance; electrical work; Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) staff representative; d.o.b. 1944-08-31, railway work: 1959-2002 (on-going), London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS); English Electric Company; Great Western Railway (GWR); Keighley & Worth Valley Railway; Sulzer; Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU); InterCity; National Express-Maintrain Ltd; Virgin; Great North Eastern Railway (GNER); Leeds Holbeck motive power depot; Queens Hotel, Leeds; Settle & Carlisle Railway; Batley Technical College; Darlington North Road works; Leeds City station; Leeds Neville Hill depot; Winterthur, Switzerland; Tyseley shed; York; Darlington; Newcastle Heaton; London King's Cross; Stephenson, Ivan Oral Histories 2002-07-01
footplate, fitter apprentice, boiler maintenance; cleaner, fireman, driver; royal trains; Beeching closures; nationalisation; father's work, traction engineer; school; fitter apprentice; locomotive repairs; safety valves; Westinghouse brakes; cleaning the inside of boilers; other duties; cleaner, royal engines; fireman, 1938 on mainline; Second World War, Soham Bomb; jam girls train; royal train engine 8783; footplate inspectors; nationalisation, 1947; students' luggage; d.o.b. 1918-04-27. railway work 1932-1982. Kings Lynn; Kings Cross; Chiver Jam. Last, William Edward John (Bill) Oral Histories 2000-06-21
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 Oral Histories 2003-04-23
parcels office clerk; railway horses; parcels traffic; staff clerk; Second World War; railway clearing house; school; junior clerk (1937); Southern Railway; Hastings, parcels office, left luggage; gas lighting; Hastings Station, telephones, tickets, St. Leonards-Edmundson; goods depot; Bexhill, horses, cartage, railway clearing house; Second World War, zeppelins; parcel office; Charing Cross Station (1938); traffic, fruit, vegetables, Second World War, London Blitz; hop pickers, Kent; timetables; alterations; timetables; weather, fog; double-decker trains; information and travel centre; staff clerk; Area Manager's office; d.o.b. 1920-06-19. railway work 1937-1984. Hastings; St Leonards; Bexhill; Charing Cross; London Bridge Bartlett, Kenneth Oral Histories 2000-07-04
