Prototype wristwatch movement, component parts in perspex frame, by Charles Frodsham & Co. Limited, East Sussex, England, 2015 Prototype Wristwatch Movement, component parts in perspex frame 2015
Oral history interview with Christopher Jago, conducted and recorded by Mike Hodson at the interviewee's home in East Sussex on 19 June 2018. Duration: 56 min. 13 sec. Early career; Network SouthEast (NSE); Railtrack; Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL); privatisation briefing; proposed structure seen as overly complex; Director of Restructuring; new structure placed excessive demands on engineer staffing; Hatfield accident; Network SouthEast restructuring process; post-privatisation issues; re-branding during privatisation; performance regimes; no incentive for train operating companies (TOCs) to mitigate delay; setting up Railtrack South; benefits of privatisation; NSE budget constraints; Railtrack transition into private ownership; effects of privatisation; Railtrack in Administration; shareholders; CTRL; summary of privatisation Christopher Jago interviewed by Mike Hodson 2018-06-19
Oral history interview with Peter Trewin, conducted and recorded by Dick Fearn at Sheffield Park, East Sussex on 1 June 2018. Duration: 59 min. 24 sec. Overview of railway career; initial thoughts in privatisation; Policy Unit; influencing and steering privatisation; EC Directive 91/440; formation of Railtrack; meeting with John MacGregor (Secretary of State for Transport); Bob Reid 2’s tenure; Select Committee Report; appointment of Bob Horton; British Railways Board (BRB) and Railtrack Board relationship; role at BRB Residuary; Railfreight Distribution (RFD); formation of Strategic Rail Authority (SRA); responsibility for Channel Tunnel contract; role of Board Secretary Peter Trewin interviewed by Dick Fearn 2018-06-01
Representative sample of the equipment used for maintaining the Greenwich Time Service from about 1965 to 1990 comprising six racks of electronic equipment, two end doors, five rear doors, three covers, printer and sign. Equipment used for maintaining the Greenwich Time Service, 1965. 1965-1970
Prototype wristwatch movement by Charles Frodsham & Co. Limited, East Sussex, England, 2008 Prototype Wristwatch Movement 2008
Oral history interview with Graham Eccles, conducted and recorded by Mike Hodson in East Sussex on 17 April 2018. Duration: 1 hr. 42 min. 43 sec. Early career; Margaret Thatcher delay meeting; mentored by Gordon Pettitt; sectorisation; Chris Green; John Prideaux; General Manager of Southern Region and Anglia Region; privatisation model; London, Tilbury & Southend ticket fraud; South Central sale; John Welsby; bus companies prior experience of privatisation; Peter Field at South Western partnership with Compagnie Generale des Eaux (CGE) (Connex); Brian Souter; Stagecoach; Connex; privatisation model seen as flawed; separation of track and trains; reflections on Stagecoach; acquisition of Porterbrook rolling stock company (ROSCO); appointment of Geoff Mee; leading Stagecoach bids for subsequent franchises; Island Line; South West Trains (SWT); Operations Director SWT; driver shortage; Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) exploit industry structure to increase pay; profits driven by passenger numbers; Chief Operating Officer Rail Stagecoach Group; Non-Executive Director Network Rail; acquisition of Porterbrook; ROSCOs successfully privatised; fares innovation; unaligned objectives and directions; separation of track and trains remains unresolved; advising on the 2005 Transport Act; working at No.10 Downing Street Delivery Unit; Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC); quality of management; improvements in South West Trains; measuring success; facilitating change to Network Rail; rail privatisation overseas Graham Eccles interviewed by Mike Hodson 2018-04-17
