footplate, cleaner, fireman, driver; special trains, Grand National; control; train crew supervisor; incidents, derailment; childhood, Bury, cellar boy in cotton mill, bar lad; passed cleaner, fireman, Second World War, driver, qualifying examination; banking procedures, gradients; transfer to clerical grade, control; Woodhall Tunnel; 200 engines; Aintree Depot, Grand National; Grand National; footplate strike, Carlisle Canal Depot; road training (Glasgow); Carlisle Kingmoor; new marshalling yard; freightliner; weather 1962 (snow); detraining incident; Settle-Carlisle line (London-Edinburgh train); Carlisle Kingmoor; Christmas; Carlisle Kingmoor; d.o.b. 1939-07-12 . railway work 1939-1984. Woodhall Tunnel; Aintree depot; Carlisle Kingmoor; Derby Training School; Stratford Berry, James John (Jim) 2000-07-18
Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; childhood; sport; railway community; changes in the community; work culture and relationships; working on steam; working on diesel; depots; wages and overtime; hostels; Mutual Improvement Classes; fireman and driver training; fireman and driver examinations; unions; strikes; tension at work; cleaner; fireman; secondman; driver; British Rail; ethnic minorities; National Service; pre-war; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Arthur Scargill; Stratford; Arbroath; Elliot Junction; Dundee; Egypt; Miller Hill; Edinburgh; King's Cross; Walthamstowe; Southend; Wembley Ramsay, Andrew 2004-10-18
