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
Born October 1929 in Kings Lynn; memories of school in Kings Lynn; works at Patrick and Thompson's sawmill; joins Navy on call up; starts at South Lynn Locomotive Depot week before Christmas 1948; cleaning an engine described; disposal of engine described; South Lynn Shed described; firing and driving steam locomotives; promoted to Fireman in August 1956; description of route Melton Constable to Fakenham;1955 ASLE&F Strike; rates of pay for cleaners, labourers and firemen; coal traffic from Colwick to Norwich; description of line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach; Royal Trains to Sandringham; Massingham Fuel depot; Local Departmental Committee; closure of South Lynn on 28 February 1959; duties as bus conductor; joins Post Office; situation of M&GN after closure; last train; origins of M&GN Circle; election as President 1999-2000; d.o.b. 1929-10-05., Railway work December 1948 to 1959. South Lynn; Peterborough (North); Sutton Bridge; Wisbech; Swaffham; Thetford; Melton Constable; Fakenham; Colwick; Norwich; Yarmouth (Beach); Spalding; March; Whitemoor; Massingham; West Raynham; 1955 rail strike; Disability Link; M & GN closure; B12; "Claud"; M & GN Circle; Raymond Bullock 2002-10-16;2002-10-30;2002-11-06;2002-11-20;2002-12-11;
Born in 1932 at Wood Green, London; memories of Blitz; interest in Railways; joins Land Registry at Lincolns Inn; joins Works Maintenace Section of Chief Civil Engineer's Office at Kings Cross in 1952; workings of Drawing Office; Special Trains, last Ivatt Atlantic and Henry Oakley; transfer to District Engineer's Office at Kings Cross; Coaling Plants and Water Troughs; Examination of tunnels; services on the Kings Cross District; Resident Engineer for construction of new bridge at Langley; joins Permanent Way section and Electrification team; transfer to Stratford; life at Stratford; supervision of electrification between Stratford and Cheshunt via Tottenham Hale; stabilisation of bank slips; promotion to Kings Cross and the Great Northern Electrification scheme; Resident Engineer for Kings Cross to Wood Green ;rail lubrication; rail grinding and re-profiling; Network South East at Liverpool Street; Railtrack Southern Zone at Waterloo and the Plan Arch; retention of records; establishing structure for monitoring contractors; contribution on Ultra Sonic work and welding; d.o.b 1932.09.22, Railway work 1952 to 1994. Wood Green; Hornsey;East Side Offices, Kings Cross; Kings Cross Motive Power Depot; Langley Water Troughs; Finsbury Park; Gasworks Tunnel; Welwyn Garden City; Moorgate;Pondsbourne Tunnel; District Civil Engineer, Stratford; Liverpool Street; The Grove, Watford; Waterloo; May, Harvey 2002-12-13; 2003-01-10;2003-02-13;
messenger; accounts clerk; office outings; office social activities; trade union; Railway Women's Guild; d.o.b. 1936-04-06, railway work 1951-1969, Colwick Yard; Nottingham; Pickett, Vera (nee Foulger) 2001-09-19
messenger; signal lad; porter/signalman; small station work; clerk; relief clerk; chief clerk; APTIS; ticketing; trade union; railway pension; conditions; d.o.b. 1923-10-17, railway work c.1938-1988, Guildford; London; Twickenham; Tierney, Ray 2001-09-19
messenger; porter/signalman; relief clerk; d.o.b. 1917-06-18, period c.1933-1976, Brighton Locomotive Depot; Pepworth; Sheffield Park; Shoreham; Brighton; Burnett, Ronald (Ron) 2001-09-19
porter signalman; signalman; goods guard; senior railman; Local Departmental Committee Secretary; d.o.b. 1939-07, railway work 1954-1991, Trearchy; Eastbourne; Abergarchy; Blaencwm; Gelli; Pontypridd; Maesmwr; Radyr; Rhondda; Landare; Powell, Alun 2001-09-24
lad messenger; goods porter; motor driver; goods clerk; District Claims Inspector; claims investigation; claims prevention; sundries; National Carriers Ltd; Cartage & Terminals Inspector; health and safety; d.o.b. 1920-09-09, railway work c.1935-1979, Taunton; Bowditch, Alec 2001-09-11; 2001-09-25
office boy; junior clerk; clerk; Assistant Area Welfare Officer; Area Welfare Officer; Regional Welfare Officer; railway community, Eastleigh carnival; d.o.b. 1938-02-13, railway work c. 1953-1993, Eastleigh Works; Southampton; Southern Region; Network SouthEast; Smith, Roy 2001-09-21
South African Railways; depot engineer; freight; rolling stock engineer; move to UK; development engineer; project engineer; rolling stock contracts manager; Eurostar, project management, production; d.o.b. 1946-09-01, railway work 1968-1997, South Africa; UK; Channel Tunnel; Abrey, Peter 2001-10-10
clerk; Continental & Shipping Department; traffic apprentice; East Coast Inspector; special duties; assistant traffic costing officer; d.o.b. 1926-02-06, railway work 1943-1963, Hitchin; Wheathampstead; Liverpool Street; Lincoln; King's Cross; Baker, James (Jim) 2001-02-07; 2001-08-23
signalbox boy; Second World War; signalman; working methods; district inspectors; relief work; signals passed at danger; leading railman; volunteer signalman; d.o.b. 1928-03-27, railway work 1942-1990, Langport; Taunton West; Chard; Whiteball; Dawlish; Cogload Junction; Norton Fitzwarren; Exeter; Bristol; Taunton; Somerton; West Somerset Railway; Bowker, Patrick 2001-09-18
jockey; racehorse traffic; transporting racehorses by rail; transporting racehorses by road in BR vehicles; d.o.b. 1935-05-20, c.1950- , Newmarket; Cambridge; Yarmouth; Warren Hill; Goodwood; Singleton; Edinburgh; Ely; Newcastle; Berwick; Doncaster; Ayr; Hull; Beverley; Brian Edward Connorton 2001-11-23
railway family; district civil engineers' drawing office; Second World War; Railway Home Guard; signal and telegraph department, Railway Executive Headquarters; automatic train control equipment; Hudd system; Automatic Warning System; d.o.b. 1924-02-23, railway work 1941-1950s, Middlesbrough; York; Ipswich; Leeds; Newcastle; Dunston; East Anglia; Harwich; Felixstowe; Catterick; India, North West Frontier; Bow; Brighton Line; Harrow; Middleton, Peter 2001-10-23
footplate, cleaner; fireman; Second World War work conditions; trade unions, ASLEF; mutual improvement class instructor; dieselisation; d.o.b. 1927-01-29, railway work 1943-1992, Darnall; Woodhead tunnel; Kentish Town hostel; Doncaster Carr locomotive depot; Whitehead, Kenneth 2001-11-27
clerk; traffic apprentice; traffic costing; passenger manager; chief freight manager; planning manager; BRB Headquarters; d.o.b. 1924-04-04, railway work 1939-1981, Cattal; Harrogate; Leeds; Pocklington; York; Bishopbriggs; Haymarket; Glasgow; Derby College; Scottish Region; Coward, Jack 2001-08-30
labourer, permanent way; sub-ganger; ganger; pre-assembly ganger; work study; civil engineering planning; divisional chief inspector, permanent way; staff suggestion sheme; d.o.b. 1924-07-02, railway work 1957-1984, Germany; Waterloo; Okehampton; Launceston; Yeoford Junction; Tisbury; Yeovil Junction; Three Bridges; Stuttgart, Germany; Lingfield; Crawley; Croydon; Brighton; East Grinstead; Redhill; Tonbridge; Balcombe; Schrade, Karl Friedrich 2001-10-31
clerk; assistant controller; traffic apprentice; traffic manager's office; assistant district passenger manager; road services officer, BRB; personal assistant to managing director of National Carriers Ltd; d.o.b. 1927, railway work 1942-1985, Hamilton; Glasgow Queen Street; Spean Bridge; Fort William; London Fenchurch Street; London Liverpool Street; Harringay West; Clacton; Whitemoor; London King's Cross; London Euston; Stratford motive power depot; McKinnon, Robert 2001-11-29
graduate management trainee; merry-go-round working; relief supervisor; shift work; station manager; terminals manager; reorganisation; wagon load working; operations manager; difficulties of being a woman manager; area manager; coal; business management organisation; counselling; management training; organisational change; quality management; flooding; personnel management; regional differences; privatisation; derailment; d.o.b. 1955-06-26, railway work 1977-2001, Doncaster Division; Grantham; Grimsby; Immingham; Scunthorpe; Lincoln; Sunderland; Warwick University; Strathclyde University; Sheffield; Gregory, Catherine Jane Ellen 2001-08-28
engineering apprentice; motive power improvers' course; firing experience; improver assistant motive power trainees; running foreman; running shed work practices; freight working; chief civil engineer's office, heating and lighting section, draughtsman; d.o.b. 1927-11-27, railway work 1945-1984, Glasgow St Rollox; Moffat; Corkerhill shed; Strathbungo College; Stow College of Engineering; Willesden; Crewe Divisional Office; Rowsley; London Euston; Miles, Keith 2001-10-17
parcels delivery; Scammell lorries; Bedford vans; Second World War; carriage cleaner; ticket collector; d.o.b. 1924-02-06, railway work 1940-1944, 1973-1984. London Euston Road; London King's Cross; London Paddington; Gidea Park; Ilford Car Sheds; Brinklow, Florence Ellen (nee Allen) 2001-11-13
lad porter; shunter; guard; yard inspector; station supervisor; railway lodgers; Beeching; First Aid; social activities; d.o.b 1923-10-01, railway work 1941-1988, Boston; Nottingham; Partney; Borman, Sydney John 2001-09-18
apprentice woodworker; carriage body builder; windows; woods; classes of travel; working conditions; method of construction; tools; medical fund; sleeper coaches; dining saloons; Second World War, blackout preparation; staff excursions; Mechanics Institute; Royal Engineers; asbestosis; social activities; quality of coaches; d.o.b. 1911-04-01, railway work: 1927-1968, Great Western Railway; Swindon; Cornwall; Luton; Cheltenham; Gloucester; Manchester; Derby; Gee, Charles 2002-01-16
fitter; supervisor; depot engineer; traction rolling stock engineer; terminal support engineer; assistant rolling stock engineer; production engineer; freight; technical traction riding inspector; reorganisations; dieselisation; demarcation between grades; breakdown crane; incentive bonus scheme; Pullman cars; 1984-85 miners' strike; d.o.b. 1935-11-15, railway work 1966-1993, Rotherham Technical College; Tinsley; Redditch, Manchester; Ollerton; Hull Botanic Gardens; Sheffield; Wath; Derby; Darnall; Channel Tunnel; Phillips, Christopher John 2001-10-29
clerk, enquiry and reservation office; Regent Street travel office; travel warrants; group travel; tour manager; Golden Rail; special trains; Merrymaker excursions; management training; chief clerk; area manager's office; management staff grade (MS2); customer complaints; electrification; marketing; publications; events; privatisation; d.o.b. 1960-09-27, railway work: 1979-1999, Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC); Institution of Railway Operators; Railway Study Association; London Paddington; Bognor Regis; Brighton; Calais, Boulogne, France; York; Burgess Hill; Southend; Cambridge; Hamilton House; East Anglia; London King's Cross; London Waterloo; Croydon; Friars Bridge Court; Saunders, Claire Caroline (nee Wickes) 2002-04-19
probationer; training instructor; signal and telegraph department; marshalling yard; work conditions; pay; track renewal; railway canteen; installation gang; safety; electrical lineman; railmotor; mess van; signal engineering; maintenance; training; royal train; d.o.b. 1934-07-19, railway work: 1949- ,Darlington North Road station; Northallerton; Ferryhill; Durham; Whitby; Saltburn; Redcar; Middlesbrough; Bishop Auckland; Barnard Castle; Richmond; Hawes; Tees Yard, Thornaby; Darlington Bank Top station; Green Street railway canteen; Sedgefield; Stillington; Hartlepool; Ayclife; Bowesfield; West Cornforth; Kelloe Bank Foot; Trimdon Grange; Wynyard; Charlton; Castle Eden; Tittybottle sidings; Thornaby Newport yard; Hickman, David Brian 2002-04-03
mechanical engineering; graduate training scheme; engineer; production manager; High Speed Trains; area maintenance engineer; depot engineer; reorganisation; safety manager; steam preservation railway; privatisation; derailment; weather, floods; d.o.b. 1950-08-07, railway work: 1975-2001, Leatherhead; Isle of Wight; Welshpool and Llanfair steam preservation railway; Derby locomotive works; Doncaster; Neville Hill; Lincoln; Tinsley; Hatfield; Great Heck; Billmore, David James 2001-12-06
railway family, stationmaster; Second World War; clerk; stationhouse; goods office; accounts; training for women; mineral office; reorganisation; area management; discipline; pregnancy; d.o.b. 1939-05-15, railway work: 1955-1970, Edinburgh; Smeaton; Glasgow High Street; Maud; Jedburgh; Inverurie; Glasgow Bridgeton; Boness; Wishaw; River Forth; Bridge of Orchy; Abbey Hill; Tynehead; Dunbar; Motherwell; Dundee; Thornton Junction; Falconer, Kathleen 2002-02-02
goods office clerk; examinations; superannuation; savings bank; Provident Mutual insurance; relief clerk; lodging; pigeon traffic; miners' gala; pay; docks; farmers; training; staff relations; Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA); d.o.b. 1929-03-03, railway work: 1945-1958, London & North Eastern Railway; Eaglescliffe; York; Middlesbrough; Thirsk; Durham; Hawes; Whitby; Richmond; Darlington; Saltburn; Brotton; Northallerton; Guisborough; Stockton-Durham line; Bishop Auckland; Stokesley; Crosby, Sheila 2002-02-12
goods clerk; company rivalry; coal concentration scheme; freight, cement, oil, cars, chemicals, minerals; sales assistant; commercial assistant; organisational culture; Beeching, effects on freight; BR representative for ICI; political involvement in railways; Institute of Transport; d.o.b. 1922-09-07, railway work: 1939-1979, Great Eastern Railway; London and North Eastern Railway (LNER); Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway; Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI); Norwich; Gordon Hill, London; Palace Gates; Fenchurch Street; York headquarters; Menai Bridge; Foulger, Geoffrey Wilfrid 2002-03-08
goods agent's office, telephone operator, general office duties, clerk; freight movements; male-female relations; zonal delivery; station relief clerk; unequal pay and treatment; freight rolling stock; accounts clerk; limited training opportunities; no facilities for women; passenger enquiries; Second World War; pay; nationalisation; rivalry; d.o.b. 1924-06-28, railway work: 1941-1950, London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS); London and North Eastern Railway (LNER); British Railways Eastern Region; Sheffield; Chesterfield; Wicker; Hodgson, Mary (nee Wainwright) 2002-02-20
graduate management trainee; assistant area manager; personal assistant to chief executive; marketing manager; graduate recruitment manager; communications officer, UIC; business development director, parcels; head of international policy; Advanced Passenger Train (APT) project; freight; shipping; traffic forecasts; international links; containers; management training centre; women employees; customer service; UIC; parcels; Post Office traffic; international policy; d.o.b. 1948-05-03, railway work: 1970-1999, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer; British Leyland; Red Star; Cadbury; Windsor; Birmingham; Longbridge; Coventry; Redditch; Liverpool; The Grove, Watford; Paris; Willesden; Brussels; Halvorsen, Trevor 2002-03-05
stores clerk; data input clerk; wages clerk; First Aid; railway town; social activities; d.o.b. 1932-05-13, railway work: 1960-1986, Swindon Works; Tennant, Eunice 2002-01-16
footplate; cleaner; fireman; driver; supervisor, traffic department; work conditions; culture; trade union; women engine cleaners; railway town; lodging; goods links; Local Departmental Committee; clothing; routes; comparison of steam and diesel; pension; nationalisation; d.o.b. 1919-10-14, railway work: 1937-1981, London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS); Midland Railway; North Staffordshire Railway; Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); Cromford and High Peak Railway; Derby; Camden; Blackpool; Buxton; Wellingborough; Nottingham; Melton; Harrow Wealdstone; Chellaston; Crewe; Coventry; Birmingham New Street; Gresty Road barracks; Bristol; Leicester; Trent; Stoke Bank; Manchester; Chester; Llandudno; Warrington; Manchester Victoria; Coalville; Weston, John Albert 2002-03-06; 2002-03-15; 2002-03-21; 2002-03-28;
goods clerk; divisional manager's office; car sleepers; freight; passenger movements; train timing; performance; relief control; parcels; area passenger manager; area manager's office; retail; business manager; redundancy; d.o.b. 1946-01-4, railway work 1962-1997, Shoeburyness; King's Cross; Thorneside; Great Northern; North Thameside; West Anglia Great Northern (WAGN); Ashton, Peter 2001-12-07
railway family; Second World War; lost property; station work; stationhouse; railway community; nationalisation; traffic apprentice; travelling inspector; special investigations; rolling stock; reorganisation, divisions; staff policy; modernisation, West Coast Main Line; electrification; East Coast Main Line; shipping division; chief passenger manager; sectorisation, business management; disability provision; investment panel; promotion of Scotland; auditors; d.o.b. 1932, railway work: 1958-1987, London Midland Region; Eastern Region; Scottish Region; Great North Eastern Railway (GNER); Caledonian Steam Packet Company; New Cumnock; Cassillis; Ayr; Dunlop; Aspatria; Dumfries; Stranraer; Carlisle; Dundee; Larne; Belfast; Loch Ryan; Inverness; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Gibson, Fergus 2002-01-29
research department; modernisation; dieselisation; derailment; organisational culture; freight; assistant director, research; management; finance; regional planning manager; staff management; trade unions; re-signalling; East Coast Main Line; property; planning; road freight; chief investment officer; Department of Transport; Sealink; hotels; sectorisation; electrification; director of projects; rolling stock renewal; telecommunications; d.o.b. 1931-02-28, railway work: c.1952-1988, Sulzer; Midland Main Line; Woking staff college; BR Eastern Region; London Transport; British Rail headquarters; East Coast Main Line; Grosvenor Hotel; Great Northern; The Grove, Watford, Derby; Hither Green; Ellenbrook; Mythelroyd; Doncaster; Peterborough; Teesside; Lincoln; Stevenage; St Pancras-Bedford; Crewe; Manchester; Glasgow; Settle-Carlisle; Leeds; York; Newcastle; Durham; Stansted airport; Birmingham; Bristol; London; Hull; Nield, Bernard John 2002-03-06
footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; Second World War; motive power shed; routes; lodgings; weather, snow; troop trains; dieselisation; single manning; diesel railcar; incident; injury; test trains; Advanced Passenger Train (APT); Maglev; Channel Tunnel; d.o.b. 1922-06-11, railway work: 1939-1987, London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), Derby; Bristol; Wellingborough; Peterborough; Crewe; Leeds; Carlisle; Gloucester; Stranraer; Birmingham; Wichnor; High Peak; Rowsley; Dyer, Joseph Ronald 2002-02-02
clerk, telephone enquiry office; British Transport Hotels; tour courier, passenger department; Pullman; telemarketing; sales; rail travel accounts; INDAB database; customer feedback; charter trains; promotions; accountability; business marketing, InterCity; Frequent Traveller scheme; Travel Key scheme; d.o.b. 1938-07-29, railway work: 1974-1995, Euston House; Gleneagles; Scotland; Isle of Wight; Liverpool; Birmingham; Watford; Cheddington; Downes, Margaret Mary (nee Benson) 2002-04-16
nationalisation; engine cleaner; passed fireman; relief running foreman; firing instructor; training school instructor; mutual improvement class; driver conversion; inspector; hostel; High Speed Trains (HST); stone traffic; training inspectors; Advanced Train Protection (ATP); Royal Train; track testing; investigations; d.o.b. 1934-05-10, railway work: 1950-1994, Southern Region; Western Region; General Motors; Swindon; Dover; Nine Elms; Darlington; Woking; Waterloo; London Paddington; Westbury training centre; Derby school of transport; Brussels, Belgium; Severn Valley Railway; Barrett, John 2002-02-27
messenger boy; ticket collector; porter; district relief porter; foreman; passenger shunter; passenger guard; conductor; safety; training; lodging; Second World War; road learning; parcels; colleagues; steam heating; diesel operations; St Pancras station clock; d.o.b. 1916-03-04, railway work: 1930-1981, Nottingham; Derby; Lincoln; Newark; Trent; St Pancras; Hoggard, Roland Curtis 2001-12-11
trainspotting; shunter; guard/conductor; rail cars; Beeching; industrial action; travelling ticket collector; ticket fraud; football traffic; enquiry office clerk; freightliner; ticket inspector; commercial instructor; assistant chief ticket inspector; chief ticket inspector; chief station supervisor; assistant station manager; royal train; privatisation; d.o.b. 1932-06-29, railway work: 1960-1993, Eastern Region; London Midland Region; Freightliner; English Electric Company; Brush; Witham goods yard; Stratford; Witham-Maldon; Colchester; London Liverpool Street; Fenchurch Street; London Euston; Wembley; Southend; Smith, Michael John 2002-02-15
carriage and wagon works; wagon repair shops; railway housing; moving house by rail; railway family; social activities; Railway Institute; travel privileges; Railway Technical Centre; reorganisation; d.o.b. 1930, railway work: 1946-1985, Burton-on-Trent; Chellaston; Llandudno Junction; Chester; Birkenhead; Wigston; Derby; Chaddesden; Loughborough; Dover; Forbes, Ralph 2002-02-13
carriage and wagon depot; merry-go-round depot; wagon repairer; fitter; chargehand; relief supervisor; depot supervisor; work conditions; travel privileges; medical problems; training; changing working practices; planning; staff attendance; vehicle inspections; industrial action; health and safety; water pollution; privatisation; depot closure; d.o.b. 1944-11-09, railway work: 1968-1996, Wisconsin Railways; Toton; Burton-on-Trent; Derby; York; Motherwell; Brooksby, Robert Anthony (Tony) 2002-01-18
signalling and telegraph labourer; signal lineman; assistant telegraph lineman; signalling installation; chief installer; electrical signalling equipment; telephone systems; electrification; safety; d.o.b. 1931, railway work: 1954-1959, Skelton yard; Grosmont; York; Scarborough; Sherburn; Gascoigne Wood yard; Morecambe; Carnforth; Burton; Holme; Lancaster; Glasson Dock; Hincaster; Preston; Penrith; Cockermouth; Heysham; Carlisle; Willis, Harry 2002-02-20
clerk; canal trans-shipment; warehouses; freight rolling stock; passenger department; National Carriers Ltd, customer services and accounts; redundant; Golden Rail courier; engineer's office; filing clerk; d.o.b. 1932-04-14, railway work: 1960-1993, British Waterways; Ireland; Japan; Hong Kong; Canada; Brentford Dock, Grand Union Canal; London Paddington; Aberdeen; Kittybrewster; Letchworth; Cambridge; London King's Cross; Peterborough; Ward, Lionel Ruthven 2002-03-26
locomotive manufacture; footplate, steam raiser, fireman, driver; training; diesels; decline of workload; immigrant workers; railway model maker; d.o.b. 1927-07-24, railway work: 1950-1955, North British Locomotive Company; Rugby Testing Plant; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian National Railway; Glasgow; Hyde Park works; Atlas works; Muns works; Bletchley; Cambridge; Leighton Buzzard; Luton; Cheddington; Aylesbury; Sandy Heath; West Coast Main Line; Willesden; Marylebone; Claydon junction; Sanders, John Herbert 2002-03-07
shorthand typist (war time only); railway housing; headquarters; rail travel and facilities; restaurant cars; flying bomb, carriage and wagon shop damage; dining cars; d.o.b. 1922-02-23, railway work: 1940-1945, Denham; Gerrards Cross; Craighead; Churston; King's Cross; Cheltenham; East African Railways; Green, Marjorie 2002-10-29
Beeching; management trainee; school trains; BT Police; area manager; electrification; freight marketing, steel, iron ore; reorganisation of coal traffic, industrial action 1984-1985; Speedlink Coal; Light Rail negotiations; BR safety panel; privatisation; track access agreements; freight companies; personal assistant to Bob Reid (1); chief officers; passengers' charter; Peter Parker; costs; revenue; Provincial Railways; effect on family life; d.o.b. 1947-07-29, railway work: 1970-1998, Railtrack; Bridgeton Central; Partickhill; Dumbarton; Glasgow; Bellgrove; Grantham; East Coast Main Line; Cardiff, South Wales; British Rail Headquarters; Manchester Piccadilly; Nottingham; Settle-Carlisle line; USA; Shrubsole, Martin Richard 2002-04-11