Born October 1929 in Kings Lynn; memories of school in Kings Lynn; works at Patrick and Thompson's sawmill; joins Navy on call up; starts at South Lynn Locomotive Depot week before Christmas 1948; cleaning an engine described; disposal of engine described; South Lynn Shed described; firing and driving steam locomotives; promoted to Fireman in August 1956; description of route Melton Constable to Fakenham;1955 ASLE&F Strike; rates of pay for cleaners, labourers and firemen; coal traffic from Colwick to Norwich; description of line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach; Royal Trains to Sandringham; Massingham Fuel depot; Local Departmental Committee; closure of South Lynn on 28 February 1959; duties as bus conductor; joins Post Office; situation of M&GN after closure; last train; origins of M&GN Circle; election as President 1999-2000; d.o.b. 1929-10-05., Railway work December 1948 to 1959. South Lynn; Peterborough (North); Sutton Bridge; Wisbech; Swaffham; Thetford; Melton Constable; Fakenham; Colwick; Norwich; Yarmouth (Beach); Spalding; March; Whitemoor; Massingham; West Raynham; 1955 rail strike; Disability Link; M & GN closure; B12; "Claud"; M & GN Circle; Raymond Bullock 2002-10-16;2002-10-30;2002-11-06;2002-11-20;2002-12-11;
Born in 1932 at Wood Green, London; memories of Blitz; interest in Railways; joins Land Registry at Lincolns Inn; joins Works Maintenace Section of Chief Civil Engineer's Office at Kings Cross in 1952; workings of Drawing Office; Special Trains, last Ivatt Atlantic and Henry Oakley; transfer to District Engineer's Office at Kings Cross; Coaling Plants and Water Troughs; Examination of tunnels; services on the Kings Cross District; Resident Engineer for construction of new bridge at Langley; joins Permanent Way section and Electrification team; transfer to Stratford; life at Stratford; supervision of electrification between Stratford and Cheshunt via Tottenham Hale; stabilisation of bank slips; promotion to Kings Cross and the Great Northern Electrification scheme; Resident Engineer for Kings Cross to Wood Green ;rail lubrication; rail grinding and re-profiling; Network South East at Liverpool Street; Railtrack Southern Zone at Waterloo and the Plan Arch; retention of records; establishing structure for monitoring contractors; contribution on Ultra Sonic work and welding; d.o.b 1932.09.22, Railway work 1952 to 1994. Wood Green; Hornsey;East Side Offices, Kings Cross; Kings Cross Motive Power Depot; Langley Water Troughs; Finsbury Park; Gasworks Tunnel; Welwyn Garden City; Moorgate;Pondsbourne Tunnel; District Civil Engineer, Stratford; Liverpool Street; The Grove, Watford; Waterloo; May, Harvey 2002-12-13; 2003-01-10;2003-02-13;
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Ronald Kennedy; Flying Scotsman Kennedy, Ronald 2005-06-22
Oral history recording; Expandind National Archive of Railway Oral History; Michael Reeder; childhood; pubs/drinking; changes in the community; work culture and relationships; changes in the railway industry; Mutual Improvement Classes; signalling school; signalman; management grades; British Rail; shipping; ethnic minorities; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Harwich and Parkeston Quay; Bunwell; Beccles; Norwich; Yarmouth; London; Derby; Luton; Birmingham; Hatfield; Potters Bar; Peterborough; King's Cross; Ilford; Liverpool Street; Dunkirk; Zeebrugge; Felixstowe; Dovercourt; Bathside Bay Reeder, Michael 2005-01-26
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Nick Alexander; work culture and relationships; memories of individuals; marshalling yards; changes in the railway industry; engineer; management grades; British Rail; Dr Beeching; Sheffield; Temple Mills; Ripple Lane; Whitemoor; Derby; Hull; Goodmayes; Tinsley; Marylebone Alexander, Nick 2005-03-25
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Ken Bird; childhood; family life; sport; railway clubs; BRSA; pubs/drinking; work culture and relationships; conditions at work; depots; marshalling yards; changes in the railway industry; unions; signalman; British Rail; privatisation; ethnic minorities; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Stratford; Cudworth; Barnsley; Crofton; Wakefield; York; Healey Mills; Southend; London; Tilbury; Teeside; Yarm; Liverpool Street; West Ham; Fenchurch Street Bird, Ken 2006-08-23
civil engineer graduate trainee; assistant district engineer; divisional civil engineer; assistant civil engineer (works); assistant civil engineer (permanent way); chief civil engineer, Western Region; d.o.b. 1929-09-08, railway work 1953-1986, London Midland; Euston; Crewe; Manchester; St Pancras; Lancaster; Settle-Carlisle Line; Hest Bank; Derby; Woking; Hither Green; Newhaven harbour; Crystal Palace; Bromley; Selby; York; Paddington; Swindon; Rowell, Dennis Lancaster 2001-03-27
engineering apprentice; Derby Carriage & Wagon Works; LMS Research Department; British Rail Research Department; observer (technical assistant); Head of Security; childhood; family; school; apprenticeship; mechanical engineering degree; Derby Technical College, day release training, 1940; LMS Research Department; LMS Research Department during Second World War; Loach; Newberry; Hoskins; Warlow-Davies; Baldwin; origin of jobs; staff relations; stress concentrations; staff structure in Research Department; promotion; effect of nationalisation; working conditions; collaboration between research laboratories of other former railway companies; career progress; hobbies; degree in electrical engineering; promotion, John Littlewood; specialisation in security, from c. 1960; Chief Constable of British Transport Police; Henry Pearce; interlocking doors; Head of Security Section, c.1970; Railway Pension Fund Art Collection; asbestos, reaction to risk; tobacco freight security; tobacco freight; locks on vans; patents; fiddling on the ferry; radiator fire, Birmingham New Street; withdrawl of British Transport finance from Research Department security work; retirement, 1982; interests family; daughters; experiences, visibility tests, Collingham; viaducts; water balance on canal, Ruabon; test locomotives. d.o.b. 1919-07-04, railway work 1935-1982, London; Hastings; Lewisham; Maskery, Cyril 2000-11-15
Travelling Post Office; training; staffing; nature of work; lodgings; social impact of job; conditions; d.o.b. 1940-02-22, railway work 1967-1997, London; Newcastle; Griffths, David 2001-03-12
stationmaster; Royal Engineers; milk train; single line working; chief clerk; father's job, porter-signalman, signalman; school; Second World War; Home Guard; model engines; Pevensey Bay; evacuation; Suffolk; mother's early life; father becoming a signalman 1948; starting work; Pevensey Bay Station; livestock; station work; role, station master; National Service; father; Eggesford North Devon; station house; Royal Engineers, 1950-52; national dock strike; return to railway; Exeter; trains office; milk tank; relief work; Lapford Station; cattle feed traffic; rabbits; single line working; tablet working; relief work, Ilfracombe, Barnstaple; camping coaches; RAF Chivenor; Barnstaple goods; Eggesford pigs; Western Region takeover; transfer to Southern Region; father station master at Ford; relief work on Southern Region Central, conditions; shifts; Lower Regent Street; chief clerk, Gatwick 1958; construction of Gatwick new station; ticket sales; signal lamps; branch line stations; Christ's Hospital station Ford station; Gatwick; Caribbean immigrants; old Gatwick station; training enquiries; Broadstairs; meeting wife; station houses; death of father; railway pensions; work study; bonus schemes; weekend work; transfer to Waterloo; move home; children; early work study; retirement; holiday home; royal visits; work study practice, carriage cleaning, shunting; drivers; work study, station work, clerical staff; headquarters staff office, Waterloo, 1982; area managers; establishment; organisation; conditions discipline; London Bridge; relief wages clerk; Battersea; booking office; cashing-up; ticket sales, Victoria station, Regent's Street, French motorail; hobbies; holiday home; family; d.o.b. 1931-12-06. railway work 1948-1988. Pevensey Bay; Exeter; Gatwick; Waterloo; Barnstable Goods. Pegler, Tony 2000-07-11; 2000-07-24
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
footplate, labourer, cleaner, fireman, driver; trade union; local departmental committee; railway welfare; mayor; school; Warrington; jobs during childhood; father, railwayman in Goods Depot, unemployed from 1926; first job, cotton mill apprentice; fitter with gas stove manufacturer; joining Territorial Army, aged fifteen; call-up to regular Army, 1939; service during Second World War; demobilisation, 1946; first railway job, labourer, Warrington; progression from cleaner, passed cleaner, fireman, passed fireman; joining trade union, ASLEF, active at branch level; joining Labour Party; elected to LDC; appointed ASLEF Branch Secretary and District Council Secretary; founder member of Warrington BRSA; elected member of LMR Sectional Council; experience of line and depot closures; elected local borough councillor and county councillor; service as a JP; election as Mayor; active promotion of Welfare Fund; driver. d.o.b. 1923-01-01, railway work 1946-1988, Warrington; Whitehead, Harry 2000-11-27
fitter, turner, Works training school, erecting shop, machine shop, heavy machine shop; background; school; job choices; Works Training School; family influences; attitudes to teaching and learning; skills; travelling; Crewe, Dead Centre; Crewe Works; conditions, hours; clothing, hobnail boots; signing up as fitter/turner; conditions, pay distribution, hours; apology to father; holidays; Bank Holidays; travel passes; train delays; weather, fog; steam locomotives in operation; other trains in operation; Works transport tricks; experiences at Training School; Christmas activities; gambling; rituals before wedding; pranks played at work; pokers; standards; tools, "foreigners"; "smuggling" from Works; redundancy; demise of steam; skills transfers; The Well; d.o.b. 1941-04-25, railway work 1956-1963, Crewe works; Derby works; Moore, Barry Malcolm 2000-11-22
station clerk; weather conditions; Post Office traffic; goods work; booking office duties; lorry driver; d.o.b. 1921-07-31, railway work 1937-1940, Abbeytown Station; Kirkbride Station; Foster, Donald 2001-02-13
Caledonian Railway; boy messenger; single needle telegraph; telegraph clerk; lineman; chief lineman; inspector; power signalling;1919 Caledonian Railway; boy messenger; signal instruments; single needle telegraph; signal box telegraph clerks; Glasgow telephone exchange; telegrams; telegraph stores; pole work; squads; linemen; signalling; safety; weather; cabling; Gleneagles Hotel and golf course; St Enoch's signalbox; tablet instruments; Aviemore; Chief Lineman; power signalling; conditions (pay); trade union; Second World War; block instruments; promotion; family; Crianlarich-Fort William-Mallaig; Highland Line; inspector; d.o.b.circa 1905; railway work 1919-1950s. Highland Line; Gleneagles; Aviemore. Murray, William
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
engine cleaner; fireman; mutual improvement class; working conditions; Royal Engineers; dieselisation; depot closure; Deltic locomotives; single manning; royal train; freight trains; automatic warning system (AWS); local departmental committee; d.o.b. 1918-06-16, railway work: 1936-1982, London Midland and Scottish Railway; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; Royston; Normanton; Hellifield; Aisgill; Blackburn; Darwen; Sough; Carlisle; Ancoats; Kettering; Longmoor; Derby; Edinburgh; York; Bell Busk; Corby; Ribblehead viaduct; Newcastle; Priestley, Caleb 2002-03-22
signal engineering; apprenticeship; training; telegraph gangs work; Second World War; trade unions; mess arrangements for signal gangs; materials coach; conditions; weekend and night work; qualifications; porter/signalman; points work; weather; third rail; rail expansion; chief lineman; staff discipline; signalling test inspector; resignalling schemes; signalling instructor; signalling school; automatic half barriers; family atmosphere on railway; Thirsk cement train incident; incidents; on-call duty; d.o.b. 1920-06-01, railway work 1936-1982, London Notrth Eastern Railway (LNER); Newcastle; York; Healey Mills yard; Tyne yard; Thirsk; Skelton; Selby; Leeds Dodds, Wes 2000-12-06
station clerk; relief clerk; station master; relief station master; assistant station manager; assistant manager; route controller; check ticket sales; single needle telegraph; goods and passenger duties; clerical pay; levels of passenger traffic; station houses described, general conditions; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), local secretary; Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA); stationmaster's range of duties; staff description; provision of uniform; up-side/down-side inspectors; condition of steam locomotives at Enfield lock; incidents, Prince Philipp, Harold Wilson; platform numbering; Examination, guards, rules and regulations; grading disparity; crane operators; wagon sets, rigid couplers; 20 ton units, "teu" safety procedures; propelling movements; effect of traffic growth; vehicle scheduling; Local Departmental Committee (LDC); six tracks double-ended; locomotive derailment; d.o.b. 1924-09-16, railway work: 1940-1975, Enfield; Hamilton House; Angel Road; London, Liverpool Street, King's Cross; St Margaret's; Buntingford Branch; Hertford East; Haileybury College; Roydon; Ayr; Pin Mill (Ipswich); Parkestone Quay; Bishop's Stortford; Stratford; Cheshunt; Ayot; Wroxham; Wydmondham; Foulsham; Bealings; Six Mile Bottom; Woodbridge; Reepham; Norwich; Enfield Lock; Shenfield/Southend; Waltham Cross; Harlow; Burnt Mill; Willesden; London Underground; Freightliner; British Rail; National Freight Corporation; Perry, Robert 2002-09-23
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
cleaner; passed cleaner; apprentice fitter; fitter; temporary fitter in charge; shedman (examining fitter), alphabetical seniority; desciption of tasks; motive power depot; coal stage working; exams; rules and regulations; firing turn; "Crab" locomotive, 2-6-0 class 5, 1926 Lancashire and Yorkshire, Chief Mechanical Engineer (C.M.E.) Hughes; boiler pressurees, cylinder sizes; last firing turn; opportunities of tradesmen over footplatemen; shift work; frightening experience; class 8, compared to class 5; "soled and heeled"; fire problems, over loaded with twelve coaches; banking engines; fitter background, description of fitter tasks, comparison to footplate work; Caprotti 5 (73125), Raidinger valve gear, Vernier adjustable cams; George Fisher; local shunting; single line tokens; works time keeping rules; steam tests; Arrival of deisels, 350 hp, deisel electric shunters, refuelling problems, speeds; 0-4-0 steam engines, performances; AEC four wheeled rail cars, popularity; deisel multiple iunits (DMUs); drivers and fireman on deisels; frost fires; 4F locomotive; flat lying deisel engines; Locomotive Drivers Council (LDC); route workings; coal train stopping distances; turning engines on triangle; coal stage, water tower; coaling practice; railcars replacing steam locomotives, deisel fuel freezing; closures, vacancy lists; crew skills; broken crank pin; line clearing; passenger complaints, failed train; records burnt in firebox; 350 hp diesel shunter; new 25s, description of preparation and shortcomings; d.o.b. 1936-08-17, railway work: 1951-1965, Dudley; Burton, station, Bromsgrove; Overseal; Sheffield-Torquay; Washford Heath; Gloucester; Birmingham; Derby, Etches Park, Friar Gate; Cockshot; Stoke; Colehill bank; Castle Bromwich; Moira East/South; Drakelow; Donisthorpe; Leicester; Carden; London Midland & Scottish Railway; Derby Research Laboritory; Rolls Royce; London North Eastern Railway; National Coal Board (NCB); Ind. Coope Brewery; Fleming, David 2002-08-28
cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; driver; conditions at depot; location train and traffic working; notable drivers; fatal accident; firing turns; injector problems; locomotive 5151; nationalisation; closures relocation; industrail action; derailment; procession through links; d.o.b. 1930-03-23, railway work: 1946-1970, New Brighton; Lower Ince depot; Gorton; Wigan; Penistone; Woodhead route, tunnel; Liverpool; Sheffield; Hayfield; Springs Bank Depot; Carnforth St helens; Fir Tree bank; Orral; Foster Timber; Bannister, Ken 2002-08-01
junior porter; signal lamp woman; railway family; Second World War; freight traffic; perishable traffic; difficulties doing porter's work as a woman; cycling to work; lampman's duties; marshalling yards; discipline; weather, winter conditions; closure of Somerset & Dorset Railway; d.o.b. 1924-07-10, railway work: 1940-1946, Somerset & Dorset Railway; Spiller, Elizabeth (Betty) (nee Lambert) 2002-05-17
porter; signalman; parcels office; British Transport Police; police constable; training; detective constable; detective sergeant; assistant detective superintendent; theft; suicides; d.o.b. 1926-07-10, railway work: 1948-1983, Morecambe; Embsay; Heysham; Dover; Manchester; Moss sidings; Folkestone; Taylor, Terence V. 2002-01-30
clerical officer, telegraph office, advanced traffic information, dringhouses yard; controller; restday relief controller; assisitant passenger controller; Advanced Train information (ATI); classes of train; conversion to Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); description of duties; types of trains; areas of responsibility; East Coast mainline (ECML); High Speed Train (HST); world speed record for diesel; train class priority; turns of duty; transfers to buses; locomotive examinations A,B,C, &D; Regional Chief Controller; role of the operating companies; route knowledge; punctuality; local management; late running trains; departments co-operation; engineering, ballast, trains; emergency bus service; staff call out; broken rails; closure of signal boxes; bomb scares; daily log; brake vans; collision test; royal train; bullion; deltic; employment conditions; management grade controllers; description, conditions of Regional Control office; early computers; d.o.b. 1942-09-27, railway work: 1969-1997, York Headquarters; Dringhouses; Radyr, South Wales; Doncaster; Northallerton; British rail; IBM; Brooksbank, David 2002-09-17
office girl; shorthand typist; staff office; clerical duties; messenger; conditions; training; staff travel tickets; free passes; accident reports; medical reports; accounts office; welfare; railway housing; typing pool; acting secretary; mechanical and electric typewriters; railway mayors; "the Tunnel" at the Works; d.o.b. 1931-03-23, railway work: 1945-1984, Swindon works; London Paddington; Bristol Temple Meads; Dawes, Lorna 2002-08-09
apprentice; shift, diesel fitter; deputy chargehand; work study practitioner; motive power assistant; engineer for planning and investment; commissioning engineer; area manager; retail manager; project manager; railwaymen, community; apprentice training; running shed, conditions; City and Guilds; restoration, special trains; driving; closures, redundancies; Clayton diesels; class 40, water pick up, steam heating; great train robbery; staff manipulating; freight traffic decline; budgetery; industrial relations; NEBSS certificate; electrification; derailment, German re-railing equipment, explosives train; lamp changing; improvements; quality; Advanced Passenger Train (APT), 1st run; aircraft engineers, relations, railwaymen; tilt failure, prime minister, report, adverse publicity; discipline; redundant signalmen; collision; standards; re-enactment 1894 opening; vocational qualifications; restructuring conditions; negociation; privatisation; pay conditions; trade unions; d.o.b. 1942-09-24, railway work 1958-1996, Ballachulish; Oban; Dawsholm; Haymarket; St. Rollox; Polmadie Motive Power depot (MPD); Yoker depot; Eastfield depot; Shields Electric depot; Darlington; Motherwell; West Coast Main Line (WCML); Carstairs; Barncluith Tunnel; Carnforth; London; Penrith; Glasgow; Abington; Rugby; Preston; Bellgrove; Milgavie branch; British Rail; Derby Research; Jordan hill Teacher Training College; Rutherglen Training School; Glasgow North Suburban and West Highland Lines; West Highland Line; Railway Industry Training Council; Railtrack; Scottish Qualification Authority; Scotrail; Cameron, Ian 2002-12-18
Royal Engineers; train timing; special trains; coaching stock controller; East Coast Joint Stock; derailment; traffic apprentice; marshalling yard; parliamentary trains; traffic management; electrification; freight, coal; parcels; newspapers; electrical multiple unit (EMU); boat train; sales representative; traffic costing; marketing; commercial officer, Freightliner; shipping; divisional sales manager; coal, oil, steel; marketing officer, iron and steel; profit; rail freight manager; business sector management; cost allocation; Transmark; Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); d.o.b. 1931-04-22, railway work: 1955-1988, British Rail Eastern Region; London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Transport Underground; Ford Motor Company; Woolworths; National Carriers Ltd; British Raod Services; Freightliner Ltd; British Steel Corporation; London Liverpool Street; London King's Cross-Edinburgh; Peterborough; Whitemoor yard; Langwith junction; London, Tilbury & Southend line; Fenchurch Street; London St Pancras; High Wycombe; New Lodge, Windsor; Dagenham; Halewood; Harwich-Zeebrugge; Dagenham-Swansea; London Euston; Cardiff; Derby Railway Technical Centre; Llanwern-Park Royal; Port Talbot; York; Corby; Toton; Lackenby; Northallerton; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Tellwright, Basil Moreton 2002-04-26; 2002-05-22; 2002-06-10;
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Andy Morrison; family life; sport; housing; railway clubs; BRSA; pubs/drinking; railway community; changes in the community; work culture and relationships; conditions at work; working on steam; working on diesel; change from steam to diesel; depots; changes in the railway industry; wages and overtime; seniority; hostels; Mutual Improvement Classes; fireman and driver training; unions; strikes; cleaner; fireman; secondman; driver; local government; British Rail; ethnic minorities; shipping; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Harwich and Parkeston Quay; Colchester; Melton Constable; Stratford; Ilford; Carlisle; Temple Mills; Dover; Dovercourt; Bathside Bay Morrison, Andy 2005-03-09
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
refreshment room staff; holidays by train; methods of selling to passengers; wicker baskets; learning on the job; trains without buffet cars; preparation of refreshments; terms of conditions; student workers; d.o.b. 1945-05-05, railway work: 1960-1965, Devon; London; Leadenham; Grantham; Birmingham; Cambridge; Hencher, Linda 2002-12-03
telegraphist; telegraph office environment; shifts; pay; training; safety; staff facilities; work after marriage and when pregnant; telephone switchboard operator; office outings; d.o.b. 1935-06-05, railway work 1948-1960, Glasgow Buchanan Street; Glasgow St Enoch; Ardrossan; Glasgow Central; Sharkey, Ann
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 2; Sundays measuring voids, study of track dynamics; general manager's office; electrification, 25Kv; new approach to project management; overcoming civil engineering dominance; unrealistic signal engineering project, credits for recoveries; copper stolen; influence of colleagues; submissions; professional project managers, 1968; senior posts given to private sector applicants; friction between departments; sponsor driven projects; politics of projects at national level; tunnel design problems; railwaymen socilalising; new railway in Iran; sir Bob Reid; d.o.b. 1939-10, railway work: 1961-1996, Euston; Oxley; New Street; Coventry; Leamington; Loughborough Chord; Manchester, Victoria, Piccadilly; St Peter's Church; British Rail Research; Eastern Region (ER); North Eastern Region (NER); South East Lancashire North East Cheshire (SELNEC); Tyneside PTE; London midland Region; Transmark; Iranian Railways; Heath, Donald 2002-10-08
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 3; 4 years on Iran scheme; no maps available; 25Kv electric; four aspect signalling; culture clash prevented decision making; dubious expense claims; shah of Persia, revolution; staff evacuation; arabian railway, phosphates transportation, market decline, railway not built; 1976 channel tunnel project; single sponsor projects, more than one led to disputes; Heath, Donald 2002-10-08
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; David Lubbock; childhood; family life; sport; daytrips/outings; railway clubs; BRSA; railway community; changes in the community; work culture and relationships; anecdotes from the workplace; memories of individuals; conditions at work; working on steam; working on diesel; change from steam to diesel; depots; seniority; fireman and driver training; unions; strikes; tension at work; cleaner; fireman; driver; local government; Big Four; British Rail; shipping; other industries; National Service; Second World War; retirement activity; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; the Queen; Duke of Edinburgh; Harwich and Parkeston Quay; Briston; Windsor; Melton Constable; Dunkirk; Norwich; Yarmouth; South Lynn; Peterborough; Cromer; Spital; Leicester; Massingham; Rudham; Sandringham; Weybourne; Longmoor; Liss; Liphook; Gibraltar; Malta; Mombassa; Port Said; Tripoli; Waterloo; Liverpool Street; Wrabness; Manningtree; Spitalfields; Colchester; Ilford; Stratford; Ealing; Cowley; Halewood; Bishopsgate; Dovercourt; Whitemoor; Goodmayes; Chelmsford; Mistley; Folkestone; Copenhagen; Falklands; Rotterdam; Brentford; Zeebrugge; Ipswich; Bathside Bay Lubbock, David 2004-10-15; 2004-10-29; 2004-11-04; 2004-11-28; 2004-11-29
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 4; problems with managing projects; Ken Davies; national standards replacing regional ones; point heaters policy, problems; carriage servicing depot; East Coast Main Line (ECML), best returns; replacement of locomotive hauled trains with High Speed Trains (HST); Nicholas Ridley; hostile civil service attitudes; planning possessions for electrification, clearance over bridges; other novel solution; unidentifies cables; business sectors unwilling to share costs; Clapham accident; signal installers, retraining; Ian Campbell; class 89; mark 3 carriage; new trains project manager; mark 4 carriages; West Coast Main Line (WCML); Driving Van Trailer (DVT); Union Internationale des Chemin de Fer (UIC); remote control; class 91, based on Advanced Passenger Train (APT); problems with carriage door controls, invertors, air conditioning toilets, John Prescott; locomotive problems; software problems; d.o.b. 1939-10, railway work: 1961-1996, Clifton service depot; St Margarets Edinburgh; Gerlderd Road bridge; York; Newcastle; Clapham; Inverness; Exeter; British Railways Board (BRB); Midland Main Line; Abbots Ripton; InterCity; Heath, Donald 2002-10-08
clerical officer; international groupage; freight officer; public relations officer; depot work; work transfer; parcels; d.o.b. 1922-09-11, railway work 1950s-1985, Laira depot; London; Paddington; British Railways Board (BRB); Stallard, Dennis 2003-01-30
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 5; class 90, changing equipment on locomotive in service; first class 91 run in 1988 hauling a failed High Speed Train (HST), adapted sets to form test train sets, late delivery of mark 4 carriages, 6000hp traction; signalled to unelectrified lines, pantograph and awning damage; thefts throughout the region; cost of electrification, number of train sets; signal interferance, overcoming running and installation problems; royal train; 3hrs 29mins London-Edinburgh; North london lines; Chris Green; solving operating problems; investment committee; tilt detection failure system, problems; R. Campbell; Heath, Donald 2002-10-08
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 7; more on Parliamentary Bill; disbanding team; objections, possible retrospective solutions; team dispersal; career ending; problems with contractors; view on railwaymen; avilability of skilled personnel; recruitment difficulties; CCTV monitoring on stations; tunnel design; London's secret tunnels; crowd, fire control; ventilation; Heath, Donald 2002-10-08
Oral history interview with Trevor Davies recorded and conducted by Robert Aitchison on 28 April 2004 as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration 24 minutes 34 seconds. Leaving school, joining drawing office at Shildon railway works, start apprenticeship in pattern shop, making own patterns; conscription to parachute regiments for 2 years [00:05:00]; meeting new apprentice John Dowson; introduction of epoxy resins; repair to Timothy Hackworth statue; repair of mahogany base of cup won by West Auckland in footballs first World Cup [00:10:00]; closure of Shildon railway works, parade; nationalisation of railways; impact of Shildon works closure on town, mood, good working condition [00:15:00]; good machinery, merry-go-round wagons, moved to brick works [00:20:00:00]; Shildon works good management; social life in Shildon, football club, successful children [00:24:34] [end of interview] Trevor Davies interviewed by Robert Aitchison 2004-04-28
Oral history interview with Oliver Lockwood recorded and conducted by Robert Aitchison on 27 May 2004 as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 23 minutes 44 seconds. Cinema’s in Shildon; films shown; poverty; bike for £3-17-6; film stars of the time; [00:05:00] Musicals seen in Newcastle; father had job at Shildon railway works; no paper but school used slates; suit for 8 guineas; father went to war, Second World War; [00:10:00] first TV in 1954 for £100; mortgage on house; first car Hillman Minx [00:15:00 ] still driving aged 80; radio shows listened to; black and white minstrels [00:20:00] 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary, cavalcade, engines [00:23:44] [end of interview] Oliver Lockwood interviewed by Robert Aitchison 2004-05-27
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Reg Batten; Flying Scotsman Batten, Reg 2005-06-22
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; George Hinchcliffe; Flying Scotsman Hinchcliffe, George 2005-07-27
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Jeff Potter; family life; religion; changes in the community; British Rail; privatisation; London City Mission; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Stratford; Liverpool Street; Cambridge; London; Bishopsgate; Aldgate Potter, Jeff 2006-02-07
Oral history interview with Bill Raine (session 3 of 4) conducted by Robert Aitchison on on 28 May 2004, as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds. Fitter at Shildon Railway Works; 1960s, Shildon Railway Works, high capacity, merry go round wagons [00:07:00]; assembly at Shildon works; living in Shildon, leisure and entertainment, Shildon cinemas [00:15:00]; Shildon pubs and club [00:26:34] [end of interview] Bill Raine interviewed by Robert Aitchison (session 3 of 4) 2004-05-28
Oral history interview with Harry March conducted and recorded by Robert Aitchison on 31 March 2004, as part of the Time Track oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds. Born in 1946 in Shildon; early life; Shildon drift mine; Shildon railway works; wagon repair; overhead cranes; high-capacity wagon building; ballast wagons; Shildon works decline and closure; politics of closure; Beeching Plan; Darlington North Road closure; removal of railway lines; working conditions and injuries; draw bar production; buck eye production; 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary; Locomotion Museum; Timothy Hackworth; sports teams; coal from pits to Shildon railway works; health and safety; injuries; railway family. Harry March interviewed by Robert Aitchison 2004-03-31
Oral history interview with Frank Wilson conducted and recorded by Robert Aitchison on 6 April 2004, as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 32 minutes 32 seconds. Born in Shildon 1919; Shildon railway works; machine shop; apprentice electrician; chargehand; work at Faverdale Darlington, closure of Faverdale works; return to Shildon works, allocation of jobs, organisational changes; free passes criterion; North Road closure; use of coal in furnaces, coal dust issues, change to gas power; other family mebers worked at Shildon works; Shildon works post First World War, Italian prisoners of war; childhood, Timothy Hackworth school from 1924; General Strike; Second World War impact on work at Shildon, Faverdale bombing; overtime; health; income tax change with PAYE 1946; Easington Hospital Frank Wilson interviewed by Robert Aitchison (first interview) 2004-04-06
Oral history interview with Gary Cook conducted and recorded by Robert Aitchison on 22 April 2004, as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 30 minutes 30 seconds. Apprenticeship (last apprentice at Shildon railway works); apprentices pecking order; end of apprenticeship, pneumatic braking, testing brakes, new construction, voluntary work in Kenya, soda ash wagons [00:05:00]; work conversion, social sciences Master course at Sunderland college; move to [Nutgen]; unemployment, work as machinist at forge, work at Milton Keynes; travel permits, destinations to anywhere [00:10:00]; Margaret Thatcher on railways; freight on motorways; gaffer brought in to shut down Shildon works [00:15:00]; apprentices were craftsmen; saddle makers; made injury worse; social network at works; Shildon railway works, most efficient works in Europe [00:20:00]; Michael Foot visited; friends at works; good wage for 16 year old; trained at Newton Aycliffe; basic training then decide trade; family influence in getting job at Shildon works; measure a square piece of metal [00:25:00]; comparison with Derby railway works; social service qualification at Sunderland college, teachers, socialist learning at college [00:30:31] [end of interview] Gary Cook interviewed by Robert Aitchison 2004-04-22
