Made during interview training session. stationmaster; traffic apprenticeship; Beeching closures; reorganisations; East Coast Trains Inspector; Glasgow, Stranraer Town; Burnt Island; British Rail Headquarters; Wales; H Gould: childhood; train spotting; graduate management training; vacation work, porter, guard; staff relations; traffic apprenticeship interview; passenger guard; training; perks; effect on home life; stationmaster, staff management; promotion, general assistant, operating department, British Rail headquarters; Gerry Fiennes; continental department; passenger assistant; regrading; planning department; assistant sales manager, outlets; continental sales manager; reorganisation; passenger manager; I Lockie childhood; music; management training scheme; army; decision to join railway; stationmaster; Beeching closure proposals; train planning department; market research; Bert Gemmell; Secretary to Train Users Consultative Committee (TUCC); staff relations; management style; interest groups; pressure groups; closure proposals, Settle-Carlisle line, misuse of proposal procedures; train planning and research; workplace atmosphere; closures assistant; redundancy; East Coast Trains Inspector; Hugh Gould/Ian Lockie Oral Histories 2000-04-17
architect; Modernisation Plan; Beeching; British Rail Board (BRB) HQ Architect (Maintenance and General); royal funeral train; d.o.b. 1924-10-28, railway work 1951-1986, West Hampstead; Fenchurch Street; Ipswich MPD; Bury St Edmunds Goods Depot; Stratford Carriage Works; Leyton Permanent Way Depot; Peterborough Station; Maze Hill Station; Finsbury Park; Helpston, Midland Railway Goods Shed; Ravensthorpe; Digswell viaduct; St Pancras; Marylebone Station; Melbury House; Metroland; Potters Bar; Hadley Wood; Blackfriars; Cannon Street; London Bridge; Charing Cross Station; Victoria Station; Cemetery Station. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Middleton, Derek George Oral Histories 2001-02-07
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Bernard Knipe; railway clubs; BRSA; memories of individuals; first aid movement; changes in the railway industry; signalman; British Rail; retirement activity; charity work; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Grantham; Biggleswade; Retford; Sheffield; Poland Knipe, Bernard Oral Histories 2006-01-18
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Nick Alexander; religion; changes in the community; changes in the railway industry; marshalling yards; engineer; British Rail; retirement activity; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Cambridge; Tinsley; Leeds; Liberia; Mozambique; Swaziland; Greece; Potters Bar Alexander, Nick Oral Histories 2006-01-26
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Geoffrey Myers; railway community; memories of individuals; retirement activity; charity work; 1990s; 2000s; Sheffield; Bradford; London; Woking; Poland; Doncaster; Sheffield; Sri Lanka; Filey; Bristol; Chesterfield; Ethiopia; Mozambique; South Africa; Ghana Myers, Geoffrey Oral Histories 2006-05-09
footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; Beeching closures; locomotives; diesels; Flying Scotsman; Childhood family experiences, moving around; father, a miner; interest in Arts & Crafts; first job, book-binding apprentice, printing firm at Wombwell; interest in train spotting; applied for cleaner's job because of higher pay; cleaner at Mexborough; made redundant, 1959, transfer to Shoeburyness as fireman, Dr Beeching; lived in lodgings; fired Stanier tank engines on LT&S route; worked "on loan" at Plaistow; transferred to Doncaster as fireman; fired over all routes, on all classes of steam locomotive; lodging at Kentish Town; transferred as driver to Sheffield; worked diesel multiple units and HSTs on Midland mainline; disillusioned with diesel engines; request for redundancy declined; retired on ill health; last firing turn, Doncaster-King's Cross on Flying Scotsman, when owned by Alan Pegler. d.o.b. 1940-10-01, railway work 1956-1990, Mexborough; Shoeburyness; Plaistow; Doncaster; Kentish Town; Sheffield; Midland mainline. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Lane, Barry Oral Histories 2000-10-10
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; George Saville; childhood; sport; railway community; memories of individuals; anecdotes from the workplace; changes in the railway industry; unions; strikes; Ernest Marples; Dr Beeching; Stratford; Devons Road; Tilbury; Rotterdam; West Ham; Moscow; Felixstowe; Billingsgate; Thurrock Saville, George Oral Histories 2005-11-29
lad porter; footplate, engine cleaner, fireman; motorman; relief supervisor; training inspector; chief inspector; assistant motive power officer; d.o.b. 1924-02-14, railway work 1937-1982, East Dulwich; Tulsehill; Nine Elms; Porton Down; Clapham; Wallers Ash; Salisbury; Peckham Rye; London Victoria; Stewart Lane; Gosforth; Wimbledon; London Waterloo; Neal, William Frederick Oral Histories 2001-03-30
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Phil Williams; work culture and relationships; conditions at work; canteens; works; changes in the railway industry; engineer; 1960s; Stratford Page, Phil Oral Histories 2005-03-07
porter, signalling; childhood, home life; Christmas; chores; school; railway interest; religion; starting work; joining railway, porter, Barrow-on-Soar; Goods Shed; signalling, rules and regulations; cartage; traffic; signals; signalman; coal freight; signalman, Second World War; coal freight; Wigston central Square, signalling; Bagworth; special class relief signalman; training; central line differences; 1965 move to private sector; rail concessions, family holidays, Scotland;railway moves; bikes; Scotland; Swannington, district outing; excursions, Blackpool Illuminations; trip to London; Morecambe Illuminations; Lake District; licensing authority; Methodist preaching; blank; role in local government, welfare, railway giving time off; d.o.b. 1914-02-19, railway work 1937-1965. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Jarvis, Eric Oral Histories 2001-04-28
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 Oral Histories 2000-06-08
footplate; relief running foreman; train crew supervisor; father, a village blacksmith and farrier; childhood; school; travel; early interest in railways; cinema car on express trains; leaving school aged 14; worked for father for 3 years, as could not join railway until 18 years old; railway entrance exam; medical; experiences as an engine cleaner; December 1940, became a passed cleaner; seniority; Second World War experiences; trade union membership; transport to work, housing, lodgings; 1944 became a regular fireman; memories as a fireman; fireman on Kings Cross route; first driving turns; Pullman cars, "blanked" off brakes; diesel training; practical training; steam, diesels, Deltics, HSTs; single manning; domestic life during footplate career; relief running foreman, relief panel; relief train crew supervisor; training at Crewe; reminiscences; 1922-11-24, railway work 1940-1985. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Day, Charles Reginald Oral Histories 2001-05-24
traffic apprenticeship; stationmaster; A1 Pacific locomotive; London main line; training, goods, large station; firing; diesel multiple units (DMU); Associated Soceity of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF), strike; milk train; pigeon trains; royal train; electrification; Channel Tunnel; major incidents; station master, role; hazards; Willie Whitelaw; Gerald Aston; signalling; electrification; air brakes; Frank Worsdale; Gerry Somerfield; channel tunnel, terminals; Alain Bertrand; John Bonham-Carter; accident; last British Rail (BR) slip coach; impact of privatisation; expenditure and revenue; d.o.b. 1927; railway 1949-1986. Bletchley line; Stratford; Marylebone - Nottingham; st. Pancras; Manchester Huntsbank; Birmingham New Street; Penrith; Cartmel station; Cockermouth station; Kilmarnock; Glasgow South; Liverpool St; Woking; Paddington; Glasgow; West Ruislip; Bluebell railway; Oxford University Railway Society; Transmark; London Metropolitan Line; British Rail (BR); SCNF. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Oakley, Raymond G. Oral Histories 2000-05-06
footplate, cleaner-driver; trade union official; Beeching closures; electrification;family, father, a cavalry officer, First World War; three sisters and a brother; death of brother, aged five; father, rejoined Army, Second World War; mother's job, a medical glass blower; leaving school, 1940; first job, a cleaner, King's Cross; Second World War, London Blitz; trade union, joining NUR; transfer to Neesden; active union member at branch level, NUR; one year's leave from British Rail, NUR studies; declined position with London School of Economics; interest in industrial trade unionism; LDC representative, depot level; joined Labour League of Youth Politics; National Executive member, NUR, 1962-64; involvement in Beeching rationalisation; fireman and driver, Neesden, London Marylebone; experience of steam electric traction; leaving railway to be full-time NUR official; involvement in Miners' Strike; Chairman, TUC Regional Committee; member of Economic Planning Council; preparing paper on railway electrification (MML); member of industrial tribunals; attending inquests on railway deaths; attending Ministry of Transport Inquiries; d.o.b. 1925-01-11, railway work 1941-1988, Kings Cross; Neesden. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Trench, Roy Henry Oral Histories 2000-11-20
junior clerk; clerk; goods office; stationmaster; accounts; supervisor; d.o.b. 1932, railway work 1948-1993, Watten; Wick; Helmsdale; Brora; Achnashellach; Kingussie; Aviemore; Inverness; Thurso; Blackstock, Angus Oral Histories 2001-03-26
footplate, number taker, cleaner, driver; dieselisation; locomotives; father's railway work; LNER, Blaydon Goods Station, shed; show trains, 1939; numbertaking; Second World War; engine cleaner; fireman; wartime conditions, tender sheets; goods, passenger trains; rosters; Riccarton Junction, Alston; colliery workings; types of locomotive J21 (0-6-0), G5 (0-4-4 tank), V1/V3 (2-6-2 tank), J39 0-6-0, Q6 0-8-0, Austerity 2-8-0; coal trains, Darlington; Blaydon Shed, conditions; fire watching; marriage; wife's work on railway; coal shortage, Riding Mill; bombing of New Bridge Street Goods Depot; living conditions; exploding shells at Hexham Yard; Heaton Shed, 1945; goods trains, Green Arrow; conditions after 1945; firing techniques; progression to larger engines; routes, learning signals; staff relations, shedmaster; supervision duties; trade union; express passenger link; diverting Edinburgh train; Dalkeith banker; pilot; passed fireman, 1947; qualifying as a driver; route learning; spare link; royal train, Princess Margaret; royal train night stop; Cock of the North, P2 2-8-2, coal consumption; driving skills, techniques; routes to Leeds, Edinburgh; diesel electric locomotives, types of engine, Sulzer, Brush, Deltic, Type 2; training for diesels; Newcastle to Berwick training; faults; difficulties with Deltics; knowledge of diesel multiple units (DMU); spare link men, South Gosforth Depot; conditions (hours), Deltic; Tyne Yard, 1963; new marshalling yard; construction of Tyne Yard; routes covered; goods trains, speed limit, effect on routes worked; Teeside, Tees Yard, shipment traffic; types of diesel locomotive; seed potato trains, Scotland; local working in Tyneside area; Clayton Type 1 locomotive, features for driver; management relations, death of father; fatality at Brampton; incidents; preference for steam; retirement; death of wife, 1988. d.o.b.1921-01-15, railway work 1939-1984, Newcastle; London North Eastern Railway (LNER). 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Hall, Albert Oral Histories 2000-07-10
LNER Main Workshops, Doncaster; Doncaster Carr Running Shed; Stratford Motive Power Depot; shedmaster; Acting District Motive Power Superintendent; management course; Divisional Manager; BRB HQ Management Development Advisor, Engineering Departments; dieselisation; single manning; air brakes; AWS; Railway Inspectorate; d.o.b. 1923-08-09, railway work 1941-1982, Doncaster; Stratford; King's Lynn; Woodford; Ipswich; Stewarts Lane; Lincoln; King's Cross; Liverpool; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); British Railways Board (BRB). 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Hardy, Richard Harry Norman (Dick) Oral Histories 2001-01-22
civil engineer; Transmark; UIC; investment and planning; Channel Tunnel, sectorisation; consultancy; d.o.b. 1935-03-09, railway work 1957-1990. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Alexander, Nicholas John Bennett Oral Histories 2001-08-14
daughter of a fish merchant; Second World War railway recollections; traffic, loaded fish orders onto trains; school special trains to Lake District; elderly fishermen travelling to Dunkirk by train to assist in evacuation; d.o.b. 1928-04-01, railway work 1939-1945, Durham; Berwick; Leeds; Lake District; Evans, Maree Oral Histories 2001-01-23
train recorder; shunter; booking clerk; traffic clerk; office services manager; Provident Mutual; modernisation; trade union; childhood; Edge Hill; Knotty Ash; St Johns Ambulance; father, family; school; first job; Second World War; first railway work, Broad Green; fatal accident; train recorder, Edge Hill; railway women workers; promotion to shunter; home life, Liverpool, 1943-1944; Edge Hill gridiron, work practice, staffing; damage, accidents; park sidings; troop trains from Liverpool Riverside; freight, livestock; gridiron staff; Garston, 1945; social life; pilfering; marriage; Edge Hill, 1945-1946, home life; courtship, wedding, honeymoon; wife's illness; working towards promotion; booking clerk, Hunts Cross, 1956; home, West Derby; promotion to Edge Hill; Provident Mutual representative, 1963; first child; buying a car; reorganisation at Edge Hill; appointment as traffic clerk; booking office duties; paybills; NUR raid on Edge Hill; house in St Helens; family caravan; school; move to Birkenhead Central; appointment as office services manager, 1985; duties of office services manager; office services manager, Liverpool Rail House; regarding; retirement; daughter; grandchildren; change of trade union; hospital fund; work as Provident Mutual agent; professional exam; impact of Provident Mutual on work; happiest time; career; impact of nationalisation; modernisation plan; decline of Liverpool; closure of gridiron; d.o.b. 1927-05-01; railway work 1942-1990. Edge Hill; Liverpool. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Horne, Edward Oral Histories 2000-08-18
typist, typing pool; Divisional Traffic Department; (husband) clerk; traffic control; special trains; d.o.b. 1926-10-30, railway work 1942-1948, Woking; Waterloo. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Adgie, Irene Oral Histories 2001-08-27
Carriage & Wagon Works; premium apprentice; footplate, fireman, driver; works management; Deputy Divisional Mechanical Engineer; Traction Maintenance Engineer; derailments; Tyneside Metro; Transmark; Shildon 150; works closures; d.o.b 1922-05-04, railway work 1939-1984, Darlington; Inverurie; Shildon; Newcastle; York; London North Eastern Railway (LNER). 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Reeves, Derek Oral Histories 2000-10-17
cleaner; fireman; driver; electric traction; trade union; driving Winston Churchill; d.o.b. 1927-12-30, railway work 1943-1989, Eastbourne; Polegate; Bishop's Stortford; Luton; Glynde Station; Tunbridge Wells; Bricklayers Arms; London Bridge; London Victoria Station. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Dove, Peter John Oral Histories 2001-08-20
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Carolyn Griffiths; work culture and relationships; conditions at work; canteens; open days; depots; management grades; British Rail; 1970s; 1980s; Strafford; Birmingham; Watford; York; Doncaster; Derby; Cardiff; Paddington; Walthamstowe; Leytonstone Griffiths, Carolyn Oral Histories 2005-05-25
clerical work, small station, personnel, management; childhood memories; school days; father, a lorry driver; mother also worked; left school early, aged 17.5 years to support his family; first job as a junior clerk at Ramsbottom; experiences at a small station; requirement for shorthand skills; "persuaded" to transfer to Manchester DOS (Personnel); 1953 National Service with RAF; returned to former office on demobilisation; joined trade union, but not active; Manchester Civil Engineers, personnel work; CCE London; married in 1957; reorganisation, transferred to Preston; joint personnel services; management training courses; Divisional Personnel Officer, Manchester; 1990 voluntary retirement; local business trust, working to place disadvantaged people; reminiscing over railway career; business plan, East Lancashire Railway; d.o.b. 1934-06-11, railway work 1950-1990. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Hill, Raymond Cunliffe Oral Histories 2001-05-03
ticket clerk; audit office; Royal Navy; District Auditor; Regional Auditor; d.o.b. 1920-08-18, railway work 1936-1979, Beckenham; Aldermaston; Dorking; East London; Hastings; Blackfriars International Freight Terminal; Salisbury; Victoria Continental; Exeter; Swansea; Ireland; Leeds; York. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Rawlings, Ron W. Oral Histories 2001-07-23
train spotting; railway press, railway journalism; Great Western Railway 150th anniversary; childhood; train spotting; Second World War; Castle Class locomotives; engine names; Bath Road Engine Shed; St Philip's Marsh Shed; Weston, Clevedon, Portishead locomotives; Midland trains and locomotives; Barrow Road Shed; St Philip's Station; train journeys, compartments; train spotting rules; collecting fever; engine names; footplate rides; career choice; early work; National Service; last day of steam at Barrow Road; Pullman to London; HST Press trip; Rainhill Trials; Frank Markham; train failure on Lickey Incline; cavalcade of locomotives; Dick Titball; Alan Harrison; radio broadcast from an HST; footplate ride with EWS; Stephen Dent; mail train; British Rail; communication; Charfield accident; Taunton railway fire; Ladbroke Grove; Great Western railway 150th anniversary celebrations; Orient Express to Venice; privatisation; Bob Wall; Great Western Railway, World Heritage Site; Festiniog Railway; East Somerset Railway; Bitton Railway; West Somerset Railway; driving courses; Bodmin & Wenford railway; Flying Scotsman; King George V; National Railway Museum; Didcot; Swindon End. d.o.b. 1935-10-17, Bristol. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Bennett, Roger Oral Histories 2000-11-06
passenger guard, LNER, Musselburgh, railway work 1940-1944. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Buist, Mary Oral Histories 2001-06-12
operating department; traffic apprentice; training; station relief work; footplate experience; freight, coal traffic; assistant yard master, goods stations; Royal Engineers, movement control; assistant stationmaster; electrification; rolling stock assistant, British Rail Board Headquarters; d.o.b. 1931-09-28, railway work: 1952-1982, London Paddington; Gerrards Cross; South Wales; West Midlands; Farnborough; Longmoor Military Railway; Dettmold; Trieste; London Liverpool Street station; Enfield; British Rail Board headquarters; Robinson, John Frederick Oral Histories 2002-06-14
footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; mutual improvement classes; royal train; first driving turn of duty; Second World War; royal train; breakdown, engine failure, cylinder blow out; gate crossing crash; d.o.b. 1925-07-01; railway work 1941-1988: Norwich. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Rayner, Peter John Oral Histories 2000-06-10
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; George Saville; childhood; world war one; world war two; sport; railway community; changes in the community; work culture and relationships; anecdotes from the workplace; memories of individuals; working on steam; working on diesel; change from steam to diesel; depots; wages and overtime; seniority; hostels; Mutual Improvement Class; fireman and driver training; unions; strikes; cleaner; fireman; secondman; driver; national politics; British Rail; ethnic minorities; retirement activity; pre-war; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Margaret Thatcher; Joan Littlewood; Dr Beeching; Stratford; Leyton; Malden; Witham; Chelmsford; Brentwood; Liverpool Street; Epping; Ongar; Temple Mills; Victoria; Silverton; Woolwich; Billingsgate; Romford; Dagenham; Angel Lane; Harlow; Basildon; Loughton; Ilford; Devons Road; Ripple Lane; Barking; London; Tilbury; Southend; Bishopsgate Saville, George Oral Histories 2004-09-17; 2004-09-20
engineering design; locomotive development and manufacture; rolling stock and special vehicles for main line, mine and factory railways worldwide; childhood; apprentice draughtsman, Hunslet Engine Company; design draughtsman; track machines; Tyne & Wear Metro; locomotive testing; review of UK rolling stock; Docklands Light Railway; rebuilding ex-BR locomotives; Royal Mail electric multiple units; Rosco; Tesco; LUL "slim line" ticket gate; new train fleet, LTS rail franchise; BR workshops; d.o.b. 1933-04-22, railway work 1943-1990s, Leeds; British Rail; Brush Traction; Townsley, Donald Holford Oral Histories 2000-12-18
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Gordon Hull; childhood; family life; sport; Railway Institute; railway community; changes in the community; work culture and relationships; memories of individuals; conditions ar work; depots; marshalling yards; changes in the railway industry; wages and overtime; signalman; management grades; British Rail; other industries; retirement activity; charity work; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Leeds; Sunderland; Durham; Dunston; Staithes; Derwenthaugh; York; Newcastle; Pickburn; Brodsworth; Nottingham; Cudworth; Guiseley; Ripley; Otley; Ilkley; Bradford; Healey Mills; Selby; Drax; Hull Hull, Gordon Oral Histories 2006-03-30
train timing; junior clerk; traffic apprentice; deputy head of section; timetable manager; passenger movements; terminal time measurement; timetables; childhood, background, school; starting work, train timing; special trains; traffic apprentice; Beeching; Norwich; Sheffield; resignalling at Leeds; passenger operating; Broomhouse Tunnel; football; modernisation; resignalling; punctuality; HSTs; Leeds; domestic circumstances; computing; closure of Leeds division, reorganisation; timetable manager; business involvement; reorganisation; freight timetabling; privatisation; d.o.b. 1940-05-09, railway work 1958-1998, Norwich; Sheffield; Leeds; York. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Wrottesley, David Oral Histories 2001-05-17
footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; First World War; Second World War; General Strike; diesel training; LNW Provident & Pension Fund; trade union; running shift foreman; d.o.b. 1899-08-14, railway work 1914-1964, Tebay; Wigan Springs Branch; Carlisle; Perth; Crewe; Ingleton; Garston Dock; Salop; Penrith; London; Ince Moss; Windermere. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Wilson, Percy Oral Histories 2001-02-14
Lord Marsh succeeded Sir Henry Johnson as Chairman of the British Railways Board towards the end of 1971; The Railways Act 1974; the Public Service Obligation; cancellation of the Channel Tunnel Project in 1975; succeeded by Sir Peter Parker in 1976; Lord Richard Marsh Oral Histories 2002-
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Davina Pyke; Flying Scotsman Pyke, Davina Oral Histories 2005-08-10
railway passenger, travelling to school from Darlington-York; Mallard; d.o.b. 1946-09-27, railway work 1950s-1960s, York; Darlington; Chambers, John Thomas William Oral Histories 2001-03-21
footplate, cleaner, fireman; Mutual Improvement Classes; Father's job, a railway guard, secretary of National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), Lincoln Branch; starting work, first job as a cinema operator; joining Great Northern Railway (GNR), Lincoln, as a cleaner; joining NUR; supporter of Mutual Improvement Classes; becoming a passed cleaner and fireman; recollections of various incidents; leaving railway to read History at Oxford University; continuing interest in railways; work on documenting Joint Line; work with County Archive; d.o.b. 1922-01-06, railway work 1938-1950. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Cossey, Frank Oral Histories 2000-11-23
apprentice; fitter; instrument maker; locomotive restoration, Mallard, Green Arrow; apprentice; LNER steam locomotives, Mallard, Flying Scotsman, Green Arrow, GN Atlantic 251; restoration of steam locomotives destined for National Railway Museum; local trade union branch official, AEU, d.o.b. 1920-09-04, railway work 1934-1982, Doncaster Plant Works. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Wakefield, Teddy Oral Histories 2000-09-15
messenger boy; apprentice electrical fitter; electrical fitter, technical assistant, outdoor machinery; training; docks and quays; mechanical handling; maintenance; mechanised marshalling yards; diesel depots; switch heating; passenger movement; d.o.b. 1931-12-19, railway work 1945-1992, Parkston Quay; Doncaster; York; Neville Hill. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Cooper-Keeble, Derek Oral Histories 2001-09-05
Doncaster Wagon Shops and Plant Works, labourer, wood carrier, bogie underframe cleaner; childhood in Doncaster; school; father, a miner and council worker; Second World War memories; family of six people; mother died at an early age, housekeepers; 1944 volunteered for Army; first job as an apprentice signwriter; Army training, posted to India, 1944; demobilised in Derby, old job; worked in bakery; surface work at colliery; marriage; job with British Rail for more money; labourer at Doncaster wagon Shops; wood carrier at Doncaster wagon Shops; Beeching period, breaking up of wagons; cleaning fish wagons for other use; transfer to Doncaster for Plant Works; working conditions; promoted to chargehand; bogie cleaner; underframe cleaning in the DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) shop; protective clothing; working with asbestos; 1987 made redundant; general comments on working conditions; d.o.b. 1926-12-01, railway work 1959-1987. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Barker, Roy Oral Histories 2001-04-30
opics: Britsh Rail Hovercaft Ltd; education; early career; joining British Rail Hovercraft Ltd (BRHL); early hovercraft development; British Rail (BR) involvement with hovercraft; choice of Solent for first BRHL service; SRN and SRN6 hovercraft; recruitment for marine and engineering expertise; extension of first service on Solent, new routes;new craft; first Hover Marine sidewall craft HM2; effect on other Solent services; incidents relating to introduction of hovercraft on the Solent; choice of Dover harbour and Boulogne Le Portel as terminals for cross-Channel Service; inaugural crossing of SRN4, 1968; operating problems with SRN4; involvement with French; hovercraft safety record 1962-1969; views on hovercraft concept; d.o.b. 1927-02-06, railway work 1962-1969, Southampton; Isle of Wight; Dover; Boulogne. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Brindle, Charles Anthony Oral Histories 2000-08-30
porter; signalman; single line working; royal trains; family; railway involvement; station porter; Great Western Railway; Weymouth Station; Maiden Newton Station (1932-1937); station porter; station porter; Cheddar valley line; single line working; tokens; staff; Cheddar Valley line; Second World War; VIP trains; Winston Churchill; top grade relief signalman; Southern Region, Weymouth; Sparkford line; royal train, visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II; Maiden Newton; d.o.b. 1912-10-26. railway work 1932-1977. Cheddar Valley; Weymouth; Yeovil. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Squibb, A.W. (Bill) Oral Histories 2000-07-11
civil engineer; Royal Engineers; civil engineering maintenance; d.o.b 1908-07-18, railway work 1924-1971, London; France; Far East, Burma; Longmoor Military Railway; Plymouth; Taunton; Derby; Purley, London; Great Western Railway (GWR); Prior, Frank Joseph James Oral Histories 2001-02-15; 2001-03-08;
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 Oral Histories 2001-01-22
Made during the interview training session. 1950-90s. Topics: management training; BRB Community Unit Places: Bletchley; Norwich;Watford, P. Pay, T1 childhood, Second World War; T2 joining railway, 1950, junior porter/signal lad; junior booking & parcels clerk, Hendon; NationalService; T3 national Service; training, 1957; railway mayors; T4 ambition, Relief Stationmaster; T5 training, Rules & Regulations; traffic apprenticeship exam; Accounts Office; management, staff; Area Manager, Bletchley, 1965; T6 National Sundries Scheme, 1968; containerisation, Freightliners; Planning Manager; Channel Tunnel, 1971-75; T7 Safety Invigilator, Channel Tunnel, 1994; 1970s, National Parcels Plan; Divisional Operations Manager, Norwich, 1980; T8 night work; J. Crowe T9 family; T10 education; choice of career; T11 BR graduate recruitment; management training scheme; T12 training, staff relations; T13 atmosphere on railway, attitude to trainees; T14 management experiences in different posts; European courses; MBA; T15 closure of Locomotive Depot; Planning Assistant; T16 lecturer at Watford Management Training College; BRB HQ; Cliff Rose; T17 BRB Community Unit, 1988; Peter Parker, Bob Reid; business in community; privatisation; T18 privatisation; redundancy; community enterprise scheme; T19 Bill Parker; family; T20 NAROH; End. Peter Pay/James Crowe Oral Histories 2000-04-17
Made during the interview training session. c. 1943-1980s Topics: accounts; stores control; Places: Crewe; York; Derby; T1 blank; T2 childhood; family; education; choice of railway career; starting work; Accounts Office; Locomotive Works, Derby, 1943; T3 railway entrance exam; National Service, 1946; T4 National Service, Quartermaster's Stores, Chief Clerk District HQ, Palestine, 1948; return to railway, marriage; T5 1955, accoutancy apprentices scheme; Works Accountant, Crewe; HQ, Marylebone; Lost Property, Goods and Claims Organisation; T6 uniform; Assistant Source Controller, London Midland Region; family; T7 Source Controller, Western Region, 1967; Stores Controller, 1978, York and Derby; redundancy; T8 family; Transmark; Mozambique; yachting; End. Peter Hornsby Oral Histories 2000-04-17
tracer, District Civil Engineer's Office; trainspotting; permanent way training course "A"; draughtsman; permanent way work; continuous welded rail; permanent way renewal; concrete sleepers; senior technical assistant; computerisation renewal of ways (CROWS) ; area civil engineer; saloon inspection; track possession; North Eastern Railway; London Midland Region; Eastern Region; York; Tollerton; Scarborough; York Technical College; East Coast Main Line; Doncaster; London King's Cross; Ferrybridge; Darlington; Peterborough; Crewe; Leeds; Woodcock, George William Oral Histories 2001-12-03
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 Oral Histories 2001-01-16; 2001-01-24