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typing pool, goods manager's office, mineral rates office; special trains; Mallard; d.o.b. 1910-11-28, railway work: 1936-1939, London and North Eastern Railway (LNER); York; Ampleforth College; Barnard Castle;

Newcombe, Christina Margaret (nee Crowther)

2000-04-26
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
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

2006-01-26
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

2005-11-29
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Donald Reasbeck; childhood; family life; sport; religion; pubs/drinking; railway community; changes in the community; changes in the railway industry; charity work; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Doncaster; Hexthorpe; Bridlington; Rhyl; Armthorpe

Reasbeck, Donald

2005-02-01
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Richard Hardy; work culture and relationships; memories of individuals; conditions at work; working on steam; working on diesel; working on electric; change from steam to diesel; depots; works; changes in the railway industry; unions; tension at work; management grades; British Rail; 1950s; 1960s; Stratford

Hardy, Richard

2005-08-10
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Audrey Wright; railway community; memories of individuals; retirement activity; charity work; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Doncaster; Sheffield; Worksop; Derby; Albania; Italy; Poland; Filey

Wright, Audrey

2005-11-10
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

2006-03-30
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Davina Pyke; Flying Scotsman

Pyke, Davina

2005-08-10
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; BRSA; pubs/drinking; railway community; work culture and relationships; conditions at work; open days; working on diesel; depots; changes in the railway industry; wages and overtime; engineer; ethnic minorities; British Rail; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; Stratford; Liverpool Street; Norwich; Colchester; Doncaster; Temple Mills; Barking; Brentwood; York; Harwich and Parkeston Quay; Felixstowe

Johns, Mike

2005-05-09
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Scott Hellewell; childhood; work culture and relationships; memories of individuals; unions; management grades; British Rail; other industries; Second World War; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Bradford; Blandford; Morecambe; Darlington; York; Athens; Hamburg; Bonn; Wakefield; Hull; Settle; Carlisle; Manchester; Sheffield; Toronto

Hellewell, Scott

2005-03-03
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Peter Cookson; childhood; family life; sport; religion; changes in the community; Big Four; ethnic minorities; other industries; retirement activity; pre-war; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Pontefract; Leeds; Bridlington; Ferrybridge; Bradford; Halifax; Castleford; Knottingley; Normanton; Featherstone; Wakefield; Doncaster; Goole; Sheffield; York; South Elmsall; Moorthorpe

Cookson, Peter

2006-03-07
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Lew Adams; childhood; Railway Institute; railway community; work culture and relationships; anecdotes from the workplace; memories of individuals; canteens; working on steam; working on diesel; change from steam to diesel; depots; changes in the railway industry; wages and overtime; seniority; hostels; Mutual Improvement Class; fireman and driver training; firemen and driver examinations; unions; strikes; tension at work; cleaner; fireman; driver; secondman; local government; national politics; British Rail; other industries; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Margaret Thatcher; Dr Beeching; Harold Wilson; Barbara Castle; Shirley Williams; Stratford; Bletchley; Yarmouth; Peterborough; Chelmsford; March; Ispwich; Ely; Dagenham; Wickford; Romford; Bishopsgate; Gidea Park; Ilford; King's Cross; Bexley; Newham; Hertford; Paddington; Moscow; Milton Keynes

Adams, Lew

2004-07-12; 2004-07-13
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Rose Meiners; pubs/ drinking; railway communit; changes in the community; changes in the railway industry; unions; strikes; ethnic minorities; other industries; Second World War; 1960s; 1970s; Stratford; Tilbury; Angel Lane

Meiners, Rose

2004-11-01
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Arthur Heaven; childhood; railway community; changes in the community; unions; local government; Big Four; BRSA; sport; other industries; pre-war; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Doncaster; Sheffield; Hexthorpe; Balby; Hyde Park

Heaven, Arthur

2004-10-28
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

2004-09-17; 2004-09-20
Premium Apprentice at Doncaster Works 1949 to 1953; Doncaster locomotive Drawing Office 1956 to 1957; M&EE BRB HQ, Derby 1067 to 1993; 1970 joined Braking Section as Deputy to Brake Engineer BRB; became Brake Engineer BRB HQ in 1983; d.o.b 1932-12-05. railway work 1949 to 1994. BR; BSI; RIA; ORE; UIC; Class 40; Class 86; Class 25; EP brakes; cab ventilation; air conditioning; composition brake blocks; HST Power cars; EQ Brake; HST braking; Westinghouse; Davies and Metcalfe; Class 508; Private Owner Wagons; Class 313; air brake systems and condensation; blue spotting; pressure vessel design; BR modification procedure; Class 123; Doncaster works; Doncaster Carr Depot; Perth; Inverness; Bottesford; Darlington; Railway Technical Centre, Derby; Vienna Arsenal; Barry; Merseyside; Tyne and Wear; Motherwell; Sheffield; Copyhold Junction; Colwich; Walton on the Naze; Hull Dairycoates; Stourbridge Town; Stafford; Tunstead; Beattock; Paddington;

Nicholas, Brian

2003 and 2004
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
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
booking clerk; cartage; public affairs; passenger commercial; marketing assistant; acting passenger manager; exhibition trains; Merrymaker excursion trains; zonal fares; 1930-04-14, railway work 1944-1985, Brighton; Clapham Junction; Redhill; Tidworth; Woking College; Waterloo; Euston. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Hayler, Michael

2001-08-08
royal train; stationmaster; special trains, circus, football; First Aid; trade unions; training; family; school; Second World War; career; job offer, LNER; booking office, Castleford; RAF; demobilisation; ambitions; clerk; Castleford; duties; relief clerk, Leeds; training; examinations; Chief Inspector Reynolds; royal train; HM Queen Elizabeth II; stationmaster, Earswick, 1947; duties, pick-up working; coal sales; shunting, Earswick; staff; stationmaster, Hunwick; interview; freight, Bishop Auckland; damages; staffing; conditions; hours; rosters; West Auckland; Shildon Yard; control; Darlington; Lance Ibbotson; inspections; station gardens; promotion; station house, moving house; stationmaster duties; collieries; gradient workings; coal freight; school train, Eshwinning; special trains, Durham Miners' Gala; telegraph; freight; control, career; private sidings; stationmaster; Loftus; station house, Crook, 1953; passengers, parcels; customers; brickworks; ASLEF strike 1955; football train; special trains; Yard Master, North Stockton; management style; customers; derailment; coal freight; stationmaster, Ely, 1958; ambition; BBC visit stationmaster, Ipswich; office outing; Ipswich circus train; commuters; Ipswich; staff training; First Aid movement; HST derailment; traffic management; Liverpool St; 1961; Ipswich; ambitions; training; timetables; electrification Shenfield; commuters; attitudes; staffing; Stratford; immigrants; wages; operations; Asst. Movements Ops Off., Frank Hick; Woking Staff College, 1965; District Mgr, Wakefield; freight; Movements Ops Off., steel; congestion; merry go round coal; regional merger; Div. Movements Mgr; Tinsley Yard; Regional Movements Mgr. d.o.b. 1923-03-22 railway work 1939-1982. Woking; Ipswich; Liverpool St; Tinsley Yard; London North Eastern Railway (LNER). 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Graham, Gordon

2000-08-10; 2000-08-21;
porter; d.o.b. 1918-07-22, railway work c.1940-1948, York;

Nelson, Nellie

2001-03-14
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
booking office clerk; motive power depot clerk; traffic apprentice; supervisor; grant aid statistical analysis; coaching and rolling stock assistant; carriage maintenance manager; d.o.b. 1938, railway work 1955-1994, Edinburgh; Newington; Duddingston; East Fortune; Shotts; Morningside Road; Waterloo Place; Craiglockhart; Waverley; Polmont; Dalry Road; Glasgow; Greenock. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

MacLean, A.A. (Sandy)

2001-07-04
signalbox lad; clerk; porter; traffic apprentice; goods depots; assistant yard master; assistant area manager; Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); coding; data; team; training; implementaion; project management; TRUST; d.o.b. 1937, railway work 1954-1994, Stcoport; Manchester; Nuneaton; London Euston; Toton, Derby; Watford; Watford; Willesden; Crewe; Aylesbury; East Anglia; Northeast region; Scottish region;

Spedding, Peter Hamilton

2001-01-22
Travelling Post Office; d.o.b. 1933-06-26, c. 1950s, Birmingham; Newcastle;

Crumpton, John Thomas

2001-04-02
footplate, cleaner, fireman; driving instructor; area inspector (signalling); chief area inspector; station manager; area terminals manager; terminals assistant; traffic manager; train crew manager; operations standards manager; service delivery manager; d.o.b. 1938-04-22, railway work 1954-1996, East Markham; Rampton; Maltby; Dinnington; Doncaster; Scarborough; Bridlington; Cleethorpes; Mablethorpe; Skegness; Ilford; King's Lynn; Retford; Gainsborough; March; Ely; Peterborough; Cambridge; London King's Cross;

Athey, David

2001-03-20; 2001-03-21;
footplate; fireman; driver; train crew inspector; Area Signals Inspector; Acting Operations Manager; West Coast Main Line; 1925-07-23, railway work 1942-1984, Bury; Manchester Lonsight; Watford; Bletchley. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Walker, Joseph

2001-05-15
trade union; local departmental committees; ASLEF General Secretary; reason for being active, Nine Elms Depot, Army King Regulations; 1947 call up, driving by 24th birthday; 1963, LDC Waterloo; 1973, Executive Committee of ASLEF; 1981 President; 1984 District Officer; 1992 Assistant General Secretary; 1994 General Secretary; unofficial acts, Waterloo; LDC duties; rostering, complaints; discipline; work is rule; General Secretary RW Buckton; Assistant General Secretary Don Pullen; Executive Committee sessions; Marsham Street; trade union support; procedure for dealing with cases; 8 hour day dispute; dispute over letter; £10.00 contribution is Signals passed At Danger (SPAD) report; selling railway houses; Assistant General Secretary duties; General Secretary; social life; d.o.b. 1929-01-09, railway work 1944-1994. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Fullick, Derrick Frank

2001-06-02
clerk; military signalling; telegraph operator; d.o.b.1921-07-00, railway work 1943-1947, Kirkcaldy; Thornton. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Forrester, Helen Elizabeth (Betty)

2001-07-13
porter; clerk; controller; train planning; traffic costing; freight planning; BRB HQ; d.o.b. 1936, railway work 1952-1993, Newmacher; Kittybrewster; Fraserburgh; Aberdeen; Burntisland; Glasgow; Inverness; York. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Flett, Douglas

2001-08-21
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

2001-02-15; 2001-03-08;
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
footplate; bar lad; cleaner; firing; railway house; driver; learning; AWS; railway housing; freight; shunting; station supervisor; control of train crews; 1929-1994 Liverpool; Bootle Bank Hall Shed; Dingle; Sandhills; Watford; West Hampstead Edge Hill; Liverpool Lime Street; Birkenhead Central; Kirkdale; d.o.b. 1929-02-17, railway work 1944-1994. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Peacock, Thomas

2001-07-25
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
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
personnel; reorganisations; Beeching closures; privatisation; trade unions; BRB; father's railway career, passenger guard; pincer clerk, Leverton; clerical work; porter, trainside duties, signal lampman; clerical duties, Cottam, Torksey; fraud; goods and passenger work; conditions, hours, shifts; office furniture; village role of station master and clerk; probation period; LNER superannuation fund; relief clerk, Traffic Manager's office, Lincoln; Grimsby, Spalding, Nottingham, Newark; conditions; travel allowance; lodgings; digs with railway families; clerk, 1959, Traffic Manager's office; relief signalmen; signalboxes; personnel work, Lincoln District staff office; redundancies, Beeching closures; merging traffic management offices; amalgamation of regions; Head of Personnel, Sheffield District Manager's Office; staffing of area management schemes; resignalling schemes; Woodhead line closure; staff consultation; Sectional Councils; relationships with trade unions; promotion to Leeds District Manager's Office; 1983, reducing management tiers from three to two; elimination of Divisions; staff consultation; implementation; new regional organisation; services for traffic, civil engineering, signal engineering; divisional level work; close listing jobs; assisting Area Managers; Employment Relations Officer, York, 1986; introduction of driver-only operations; Employment Relations Manager, 1987; industrial tribunal, militant driver at King's Cross; elimination of regions; Paddington, Railway Operations Manager, business organisation; train crew agreement, guards for driving duties; racial discrimination, Paddington, safety; privatisation; Business Personnel Manager, BRB; trade union headquarters; negotiation machinery; joint consultation, Vessey Agreement, Footplate Staff Promotion and Transfer; retirement, recall; new operating companies; national TU meetings. d.o.b. 1940-12-03, railway work 1956-1994, Lincoln; Doncaster; Woodhead; Leeds; York. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Vessey, John

2000-10-04
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
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
clerk; Royal Engineers; BRB Headquarters Operations; preservation railways; Superintendent of the Line, Chairman, President, Bluebell Railway; d.o.b. 1908, railway work 1925-1997, West Grinstead; London Bridge; Redhill; Longmoor; Calcutta; London Liverpool Street; London Paddington; Bluebell Railway; Combe Bridge; Kingscote; Sheffield Park;

Holden, Bernard John (MBE)

2001-01-23
d.o.b. 1926-10-21, railway work 1943-1999, Topics: footplate cleaner, fireman, driver; trade union; local departmental committee; railway welfare; Places: Grimethorpe; Cricklewood Depot, London; Stafford; childhood, Grimsby, Hull, Sheffield; Second World War, evacuation, Sheffield Blitz; family railway background; cleaner, Grimethorpe, LMS; colour vision test; training; NUR; Cricklewood Depot, London, shortage of firemen; Midland Enginemen's Fund; transfer to Stafford, railway barracks; work with Armed Forces personnel, staff shortages; marriage, accommodation; conditions (weather, ice), Dore & Totley Tunnel; steam trains working in tunnels, conditions (illness); promotion to driver, 1960, conditions (pay); contrast between LMS and LNER railways; travel to work; trade union, transfer from NUR to ASLEF, 1955 strike; LDC representative; LDC work; social security tribunal; health and safety at work representative, 1974; suicides on the line; retirement, 1991. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Sharp, Cyril Herbert

2000-08-15; 2000-09-19
signal box lad; train recorder; porter; shunter; yard foreman; yard inspector; goods guard; trains inspector; traffic assistant; Second World War; d.o.b. 1913-04-09, railway work 1927-1978, Motherwell Moss End Yard; Flemington; Milnwood Junction; Braidwood; Carluke; Hamilton; Carstairs; Dalziel; Hamilton West Ross; Glasgow; Ravenscraig; Hunstanton; Beattock; Carlisle Kingmoor; Carlisle Upperby; Perth;

Gilchrist, Samuel John (Sam)

2001-04-04
goods clerk; booking office clerk; iron works traffic; coal trains; staff clerk; controller; Second World War; troop trains; left railway for teaching; RCTS; d.o.b. 1918-08-04, railway work 1934-1947, Nottingham Queen's Walk goods depot; Arkwright Street signalbox; Aslockton; Arkwright Street station; Basford; Kimberley; Stanton Iron Works; Nottingham Victoria;

Henshaw, Alfred

2001-04-18
apprentice moulder; foundry; trade union; foreman; family; machine shop, Swindon Works; apprentice moulder, iron foundry; brass foundry; foundry ventilation, heating; end of steam era, introduction of aluminium; electric furnaces, machine moulding; foundry sands; new techniques; trade union activities; improvements in ventilation; accidents; prehistoric creature found beneath floor; promotion, foreman, supervising fifty men; d.o.b. 1922-07-16, railway work 1937-1984, Swindon Works;

Fleetwood, John Edward

2000-09-19
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
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

2001-04-30
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
waitress, manageress, railway station restaurants, railway hotel restaurant; railway catering train crew, senior stewardess, acting bursar; Miss Rail Catering (ER); uniforms; superannuation; privatisation; GNER; d.o.b. 1939, railway work: -1973, Newcastle; King's Cross; Leeds; York. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Tuddenham, Myra

2001-07-19
clerk; traffic; stationmaster; Second World War; nationalisation; reorganisation; childhood; father's job, signalman; family; railway involvement; other industries; Mirfield, Low Moor; school; Golcar Church; childhood; first job, junior clerk, Golcar, travel to work, Golcar; coal from wagons; parcel traffic; other stations, Slaithwaite, Marsden; goods traffic; charging; tickets; auditors; Second World War call-up; wartime relief clerk; return to LMS; Lockwood, Meltham, Hunts Bank Control; YMO, Huddersfield; courtship; marriage; children; appointment as station master, Ravensthorpe; Darton; Station Master's duties; emergencies nationalisation; station master, Church Fenton; station house; coal sales; train working; Church Fenton, RAF, freight, cattle; freight, pigeons; staffing; modernisation; social life; organist; Pontefract, Batley; comparison of Church Fenton and Batley tunnels; Batley; traffic, parcels; closure of GN line; reorganisation; redundancy; move to Wakefield; move to Healey Mills; trade union activity; incident with cattle; reflections on railway career; d.o.b. 1921-07-26; railway work 1937-1982. Golcar; Huddersfield; Darton; Ravensthorpe; Church Fenton; Pontefract; Batley; Wakefield; Healey Mills, Leeds; London Midland & Scottish (LMS); Great Northern (GN). 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Lamb, Leslie

2000-08-25; 2000-08-28