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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

2001-05-17

junior clerk; booking office; parcels; stationmaster; goods agent; traffic apprentice; traffic department, market research; area manager; planning department; traffic, sugar beet; Transmark; Eurostar; d.o.b. 1925-05-04, railway work 1940-1982, Kettering; Glendon; Rushton; Donnington; Llanbister Road; Peplow; Calvely; Whitchurch; Nottingham; Derby; Birmingham; Spon Lane; Soho; Paddington; Portsmouth; Waterloo; Bricklayers' Arms parcels depot; Victoria; Gatwick; Guildford; Melbourne, Australia; Iraq; Houston, USA; Hong Kong; Botswana; Zimbabwe. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Simmonds, Dennis

2001-07-06

footplate, bar lad, cleaner, fireman; leaving school, aged 14; starting work at a baker's; joining railway, bar lad, Buxton; progression through cleaner, passed cleaner; fireman, Buxton; experience working heavy trains over steep gradients; National Service; severe weather conditions, 1947; involvement in many different incidents; fireman in exhibit in National Railway Museum; member of Midland Railway Preservation Society; father's job, a driver, his railway experiences; d.o.b. 1929-07-21, railway work 1944-1953, Buxton. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Palfreyman, Brian

2000-11-13

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

Jones, Vera

2003-01-30

clerk; invoices, goods; passenger refunds; claims work; travelling ticket bureau; efficiency commissions; d.o.b. 1929-10-15, railway work 1929-1973, Nine Elms Goods Depot; Wimbledon Goods; Kingston Goods; Waterloo; Woking; Marylebone. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Greenfield, Harry Thomas (Tom)

2001-06-26

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

Adam, John

2001-05-02

junior clerk; Royal Engineers; clerk; staff clerk; uniform stores; Revenue protection Section; conductor guards; Chief Ticket Inspector ER; Revenue Protection Officer; ticket machines; Terminals and Standards Manager; railway work 1952-1994, Middleton-in-Teesdale; Hull; Longmoor; Darlington; Middlesbrough; Tees Yard; Stooperdale; York; Leeds; Eastern Region;

Kidd, Dennis

2001-06-21

premium apprentice; drawing office; Motive Power Superintendent's training; signal department; Brakes Engineer; UIC; d.o.b. 1920-07-12, railway career 1936-1983, Swindon Works; London Underground. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Roberts, H. Peter

2001-06-25

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

2001-08-14

traffic apprentice; Royal Engineers; assistant yard master; station master; chief trains clerk; area manager; marketing officer; passenger sales planning; passenger fares; chief passenger manager; retail manager; d.o.b. 1935-07-12, railway work 1958-1990, Barnsley; Wath Marshalling Yard; Darnall; Peterborough; Rotherham Yard; Spalding; Newcastle; Dundee; BRB Headquarters London;

Chamberlain, Alan

2001-04-17

clerk; Control; dieselisation; Area Manager; royal train; reorganisation; incidents; junior clerk, Wadebridge, 1951; clerk; Plymouth, fog operations; controller; Assistant Station Master; Reading; steam/diesel transition; weather; GW/GC joint line; Southall; Reading; staff relations; safety; Reading; fatalities; Westbury; Area Manager; Shenfield; Area Manager, Waterloo; Lord Mountbatten's funeral; royal train; newspaper traffic; Waterloo headquarters; two-tier reorganisation; Clapham accident, inquiry; Hidden Report; consultancy, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Singapore, New Zealand; d.o.b. 1936-07-26 railway work 1951-1999. Wadebridge; Plymouth; Reading; Shenfield; Waterloo; Clapham. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Adams, Trevor G.

2000-08-04

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

MacLean, A.A. (Sandy)

2001-07-04

footplate; 10/-6 wagon lock greaser ambulance train, posted letter for American soldier; drain axles; wheel tapper; oil traffic, 56 road, Ripple Lane; 600,000 staff on railway; d.o.b. 1926-12-25, railway work 1941-1991. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Pattison, George

2001-05-31

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

Walker, Joseph

2001-05-15

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

2001-05-24

apprentice; electrical and mechanical engineering; locomotives; family; school; Cambridge University; English Electric Company; apprenticeship, piecework; apprenticeship, hours; Edge Hill Depot, Liverpool; locomotives; shedmasters; dieselisation; attitude; Sudan; conditions, weather; locomotive maintenance; illness; Kenya 1961-1963, load testing; diesel locomotives; conditions, high altitude; 1963, London, Finsbury Park and Stratford depots; EEC representative; locomotives Class 1-5, Deltic locomotives; manufacturer representatives; Crewe 100 AR6 locomotives; Roy Kelly; commissioning AR6s; Crewe electric traction depot; working practice; Doncaster Works staff; Walter Jarrett, engineer; Mr S.B. Warder, BRB Electrical Engineer; demonstrating electric locomotives; Shugborough Tunnel; attitude; test runs; incident in Sudan; repairs to AR6 locomotives; marriage; nose-suspended traction motors; electrification stock; attitude; marriage; Crewe; West Coast mainline; success of A6 locomotives; EEC-BR locomotive development collaboration; sales; contracts; 1968-1969 GEC, EEC, AEI; voluntary redundancy; SKF, different work practices; producing water jet boats; Westinghouse Co. 1974; Jubilee Line experimental tube train; Luke Marsden-Smedley, move to Hong Kong, 1977; house market, reaction of wife to move abroad; Hong Kong Mass Transit Corporation; rolling stock standards, Electric Multiple Units (EMU); Electrical Engineer; Design manager; GEC Traction, 1983; Singapore Metro, Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer; redundancy; wife's reaction; Stuart Scott, project director; responsibilities; comparison with Hong Kong; platform edge doors; energy conservation; railway architecture; London Underground, 1989; demise of engineering role; innovation; privatisation; retirement; Vintage Engineering Ltd; railway preservation. d.o.b. 1934-08-27, railway work 1950-1990s, Edge Hill; Sudan; Kenya; London; Stratford; Crewe; Hong Kong; Singapore; West Coast Mainline. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Vint, John

2000-06-01

draughtsman; drawing office; surveys; permanent way; Royal Engineers; civil engineering; Arthur Dean; tampers; payment by results; canteen facilities; work study; operating development; staff recruitment; branch line investigations, Barbara Castle; Br Beeching; reorganisations; Woking Staff College; freight; TOPS; planning systems; trade unions; Freightliner; computerisation; financial control; Price Waterhouse investigation; BRB management style; business sector management; Transaid; d.o.b. 1931-11-16, railway work 1948-1987, Bradford; Barnsley; Farnborough; Germany; Wakefield; Harrogate; York; Hull; Newcastle; Carlisle; Alston; Robin Hood's Bay; London; Watford; Stratford; Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa;

Linney, Peter

2001-03-07

management trainee; Assistant Area Manager; Area Terminals Manager; Area Operations Manager; coal & mineral marketing; Area Manager; regional politics, Wales; privatisation; d.o.b. 1953, railway work 1975-2001, Dewsbury; Fort William; Mount Florida; Doncaster; Leicester; Nottingham; Cardiff; Thames & Chiltern; Thames Valley; Sweden;

McDonald, Roger

2001-02-26

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

Fullick, Derrick Frank

2001-06-02

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

McKenna, David CBE

2000-11-09

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

Forrester, Helen Elizabeth (Betty)

2001-07-13

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

2000-10-17

Born in Bristol 1928; started at Swindon Works 1944; Apprentice for 5 Years; Severn Tunnel Pumping Station; steam crane inspections; Laira Depot for training in Motive Power; Shed Master at Cardiff East Dock; Work Study in South Wales 1956; Assistant Running and Maintenance Officer, Newton Abbot 1959; Assistant Divisional Maintenance Engineer, Bristol 1963; Divisional Maintenance Engineer, Newcastle 1965; secondment to Transmark for EgyptianNational Railway; Joined Transmark permanently in 1978; work in Egypt, Malaysia, Canada,USA, Sudan; retired December 1983; retirement activities Ffestiniog Railway, Welsh Highland Railway, Stephenson Locomotive Society, WW2 Railway Study Group. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Clothier, Alan

2001-05-22; 2001-06-18

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

2000-11-20

special traffic; freight; management training; management; industrial relations; legislation; reorganisation; incidents, Clapham; electrification; public relations; general manager (SR); d.o.b. 1934 railway work 1950-1992, Knebworth; King's Cross; Sheffield; Scunthorpe; York; Derby School of Transport; Woking Staff College; Dagenham; Cardiff; Liverpool Street; Southend; Stratford; Hertford; Broad Street; Stansted airport; Anglia; Ipswich; Clapham; Purley; Tonbridge-Hastings; East Grinstead; Farringdon; Blackfriars; Snow Hill; Bournemouth-Weymouth; Gatwick; Victoria; Edinburgh-Glasgow; Heathrow; St Pancras. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Pettitt, Gordon

2000-09-13; 2000-10-02; 2000-10-03; 2001-12-03; 2001-12-04

Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Douglas Harrison; housing; railway community; memories of individuals; management grades; pre-grouping; Big Four; British Rail; National Service; First World War; Second World War; retirement activity; charity work; pre-war; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Dr Beeching; Newcastle; Gosforth; Birtley; Middlesbrough; York; Leeds; Derby; Doncaster; Londonderry; Darlington; Hull; Hornsea; Shildon

Harrison, Douglas

2006-11-16

Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; childhood; changes in the community; anecdotes from the workplace; changes in the railway industry; management grades; British Rail; privatisation; ethnic minorities; retirement activity; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; John Betjeman; the Queen Mother; Stratford; Wellingborough; Woolwich; Orpington; London; Brighton; Waterloo; King's Cross; Redhill; Salford; Streatham Hill; Croyden; Eastleigh; Cheam; Victoria; Liverpool Street; Hackney; Bishopsgate; Manchester

Love, Donald

2006-11-13

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

Vessey, John

2000-04-17

cleaner; steam raiser; messenger; fireman; office boy; trade unions; safety; Second World War; locomotive types; workplace relationships; d.o.b. 1925-08-08, railway work 1946-1946, York. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Dugdale, Vernon

2001-08-28

Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Davina Pyke; Flying Scotsman

Pyke, Davina

2005-08-10

clerk; Royal Engineers; station master; goods agent; d.o.b. 1918-05-06, d. 2002-10-02, railway work 1936-1974, Albrighton; Gobowen; Lechlade; Chirk; Shrewsbury; Longmoor; Horbury; Thornliebank; Barton Stacey; Auchinwraith; Sudbury; Bombay; Calcutta Docks; Jalunda; New Delhi; Corwen; Longbridge; Newquay; Birmingham Snow Hill; Paddington; Bristol Temple Meads. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Windsor, Reginald George Wynn

2001-01-16; 2001-01-24

Oral history interview with Tom Strophair conducted and recorded by Robert Aitchison on 23 March 2004, as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration 1 hour 5 minutes 7 seconds. Born in 1927 in Witton Park; early life; apprenticeship; army; Shildon railway works; reparation steel from Japan; long shed; motive power shed; electric trains; Shildon works closure 1984; pensions; prisoner of war; 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary; wagon repair; traverser; closure of shipbuilding; closure of pits; Shildon station; railway institute; almshouses

Tom Strophair interviewed by Robert Aitchison

2004-03-23

Made during the interview training session. Longmoor Military Railway; work study; marshalling yards; Beeching closures; reorganisations; Divisional Operating Superintendent; 1929-1986, Reading; Newcastle; Exmouth; Whitby;

Taylor, Richard Keebil

2000-04-17

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

2001-08-27

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

Robin Nelson/David Russell

2000-04-17

footplate; cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; passed fireman; driver; d.o.b. 1917-12-25, railway work 1936-1976, Hellifield; Garsdale; Dent; Blackburn; Long Preston; Northampton; Willesden;

William Chaffer

2001-03-12; 2001-03-29;

Served 4 year apprenticeship as a bricklayer with Henry Boot and Son; joined LNER as a bricklayer in 1939 and worked in this trade throughout his career as a tradesman, chargehand andfrom time to time as a supervisor in the Sheffield area; Army service 1942 to 1946;clearing River culverts under Sheffield Station; work on buildings, Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield, Wicker Arch, Neepsend Locomotive Shed; Aerocem pointing in Tunnels; colliery subsidence; reminiscences of Bosses, Albert Johnson, Brian Davis.

Linley, William Henry

2001-05-31

stationmaster's wife. Lumphanan; Dornoch; Brora;

Sim, Jean

2001-03-27

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

Athey, David

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

Mini disc recording of David Ward being interviewed by William Kent during the interview training session. 1931- 1990s. Topics: Royal Engineers; marshalling yards; traffic apprenticeship; Regional Training Committee; Whitemoor Yard; Terminals & Cartage Manager; management culture; Passenger Marketing Manager, LMR; sectorisation; special trains; Places: Barnsley; Norwich; Ipswich;

David Ward

2000-04-17

clerk; station master; traffic apprentice; management training; Goods Agent & Yard Master; sales officer; Beeching; marketing & development; Outdoor Superintendent; Divisional Sales Manager; Assist General Manager (Commercial); Divisional Manager; Deputy General Manager; politics; Chief Freight Manager BRB; General Manager, Eastern Region; d.o.b. 1930-04-05, railway work 1946-1985, Aberdeen; Culter; Edinburgh; Fraserburgh; Abernethy; Port Elphinstone; Johnshaven; Haymarket; Thornton Yard; Millerhill Yard; Stirling; Galashiels; Derby; Boston; Lincoln; Doncaster; Woking; Glasgow; Cardiff; Croydon; Brighton; Gatwick; York; Selby; King's Cross. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Paterson, Francis (Frank)

2001-01-24

signalman; locomotive trials; electrification of Manchester-Sheffield-Wath line; signalling developments; rules; signalbox operation; circuit telephones; d.o.b. 1925-08-19, railway work 1947-1984, Manchester-Sheffield-Wath line; Millhouses and Ecclesall; Oughty Bridge; Dore Junction; Deepcar; Wharncliffe Wood; Parkwood; Wortley; Grimsby; Doncaster; Barnsley; Manchester Piccadilly; Tinsley Yard;

Brackenbury, Austin

2001-02-02; 2001-02-07; 2001-02-21

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

2000-04-17

footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; shift foreman; area depot manager; train crew manager; motive power officer; assistant traction & train crew manager; exhibition trains; d.o.b. 1921-12-07, railway work 1921-1984, Weymouth; Bristol St Philips Marsh; Templecombe; Salisbury; Woking; Reading; Old Oak; Beckenham; Waterloo; Hither Green; London Victoria;

Perry, Ken A.

2001-03-13

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

2000-04-17

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

2001-03-26

permanent way; lengthman; ganger; d.o.b. 1935, railway work 1963-1995, Scotscalder; Altnabreac; Georgemas Junction; Wick;

Sinclair, Lewis

2001-03-28

clerk; stationmaster's wife; Travelling Post Office; d.o.b. 1936, railway work 1955-1963, Helmsdale;

Sinclair, Anne Holmes

2001-03-28

Joined BR 1st Jan 1990 as part time Board Member; Full tiome Chairman of BRB October 1990; Oil Industry UK and Overseas; introduction of recommendations of the Hidden Report following the accident at Clapham; Organisation for Quality; linking of Safety to the Quality Initiative; preparations for the introduction of International rail services via the Channel Tunnel; comments on the plans for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link; Rail Privatisation; meetings with Secretary of State for Transport; concerns about proposals; formation of Railtrack; personal views on time as Chairman; d.o.b Railway work 1990-01-01 to April 1995.

Sir Bob Reid

2003-03-31

shunter; porter-signalman; passenger guard; signalman; leading railman; d.o.b. 1930-11-19, railway work 1948-1992, Helmsdale; Wick; Brora;

Sutherland, John

2001-03-27

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