Model railway carriage, 1/8 scale, North Eastern Railway 6-wheeled 3rd class carriage no 179, part of a set built at York Carriageworks in 1872 to mark the introduction of the 9-hour working day, repainted at York Works, June 1975. Model NER railway carriage, 1872 Railway Models 1872
engineer; BR research department; advanced projects group; Advanced Passenger Train-Experimental; Advanced Passenger Train-Prototype; tilting train systems; industrial action over single seat in APT-E; design; funding; High Speed Freight Vehicle; portable ticket issuing machines; General Electric Company; Class 91 locomotive; Docklands Light Railway; Maglev; test track; d.o.b. 1935-01-22, railway work: 1966-1992, BR Western Region; Derby railway technical centre; Derby carriage and wagon works; St Pancras; Leicester; Dover; National Railway Museum, York; Woodhead tunnel; Trafford Park; Birmingham airport; Newman, Michael Oral Histories 2002-01-21
Scrapbook entitled 'British Railways Visit to the USA April 26th - May 25th 1957'. Includes photographs of American locomotives, works, motive power depot (MPD), carriage & wagon, and 'en route' photographs of their journey including Connecticut, Chicago, Washington, New York, Niagra. 14 pages Scrapbook entitled 'British Railways Visit to the USA April 26th - May 25th 1957' Documents 1957
telegraph operator; Second World War; railway family; grandfather, Darlington carriage works; father, clerk, joining LNER 1937; York telegraph office; single needle and paddle telegraphs; men and women operators; teleprinters; telegraph office; shifts, rosters; processes; knowledge requirements, railway, geography; public telegrams; teleprinters; Second World War; conditions, shifts; telephone switchboard; Betty Barrett MBE, supervisor; work allocation; signal boxes; air raid; York Station; station closure; telegraph office in bunker; conditions; Control; toilets; Intelligence Office; troop trains; security; propaganda; meeting future husband; Royal Engineers; Intelligence Office; switchboard move; conditions, nightshifts; Leeman Road canteen; rations; nepotism; reserved occupations; free passes; wartime travel to Scotland; husband's job; courting; OCTU T9 Longmoor construction unit; meeting husband's family; marriage (1944); Cambridge goods office; demobilisation; York drawing office; buying a house; children; railway career opportunities; Newcastle; Darlington; impact of moving around on family; impact of railway on social life; attitudes of wives of railwaymen; family connections in railways; railway social activities; charity work; Second World War; switchboard operation; T.F. Cameron; Katie Henderson, secretary to general manager; Jenkin Jones; passenger managers; attitudes to bosses; conditions control, use of external Post Office lines; economy; teleprinter paper; work standards; code words; machine repairs; teleprinters; time signals, ten o'clock system; messenger arrangements; wives - rivalry; 1926 General Strike, father; conditions, dress code, behaviour; Second World War; air raid; York Station; d.o.b. 1921-05-01. railway work 1921-1990s. York; Darlington; London North Eastern Railway (LNER). 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in. Chalmers, Betty Oral Histories 2000-08-08
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
office boy; carriage works apprentice; training, carriage construction; drawing office; work study; Winston Churchill's funeral; carriage repairs; general manager's saloon; derailments, continuous welded rail; exhibition trains; weather; wagons, claims, maintenance; privatisation; nuclear industry; Transmark; consultancy; TOPS; d.o.b. 1935-10-06, railway work: 1950-c.1990s, BR Southern Region; London Brighton & South Coast Railway; London Transport; South Eastern & Chatham Railway; Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais (SNCF); Transfera; Rank Xerox; Post Office; New Zealand Railways; English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS); Lancing carriage works; Brighton; Micheldever; London; Eastleigh works; Portsmouth; Southampton; Eastleigh locomotive shed; Slade Green electric sheds; London Victoria station; Stewarts Lane; Waterloo & City line; Isle of Wight; Acton London Transport Executive works; Wimbledon depot; Clapham junction; Bournemouth; Hastings; Ashford works; London Waterloo station; Croydon; Poole; Weymouth; New Crossgate works; Dunkirk; Salisbury; Eastern Europe; Ulster; Belfast; Selhurst; Swindon; London King's Cross; York; Sellafield; Australia; Derby; Meaby, Arthur James Oral Histories 2002-04-29
