Search our collection

Clear all filters
Image
Category
Collection
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Garlick, Gladys

2002-12-06
footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; training; work conditions; freight, coal; lodgings Second World War; freight, ammunition; air raids; electric locomotives; passenger trains; accidents; Beyer Garratt; d.o.b. 1901-11-21, railway work: 1918-1966, London and North Eastern Railway; Doncaster; Manchester-Sheffield-Wath line; Woodhead tunnel;

Sheridan, George Mosby

2000-05-24
junior clerk, sundries division; guard; relief supervisor; traffic manager; line manager; pannier tank; entrance exam; invoicing; move from rail to road; Advanced Traffic Information (ATI) shunting; treatment of staff; Total Operation Processing System (TOPS); militancy; resistance to change; management training; shunting, "off the road"; steel strike; depot closed; redundancy; fatality; booking office; coal marshalling; mail; newspapers; train crew; reorganisation; staff rapport; privatisation; reorganisation; timber by rail; reductions in level crossings; improvements of infrastructure; political and financial issues; local management; d.o.b. 1952-09-16, railway work 1968-active staff at date of Interview. Birmingham New Street; Aston Goods; Winson Green; Moor Street; Saltley; Washwood Heath; Great Bridge Steel terminal; Cashmore Sidings; Coventry; Rugby Leamington; Isle of Wight; Three Spires Marshalling Yard; Llwyngwril; Freightliner; National Carriers; Cambrian Coast Express;

Bridges, L.W.A. (Larry)

2003-01-31
engineering apprentice; improver; draughtsman trainee; first day experience of works; personalities; turning section; washing facilities; work practice, rotation; Second World War; women on the railways; reduced demensions, metal saving; attitudes in wartime; motive power; methods and experience; steam locmotive experience; class 'H' freight; Firing and driving, London Midland & Scottish 3Fs; fitted freights; compound; Jubilee 5656, lost cylinder cover; divisional motive power office; locomotive testing section; highest steaming rates; British Rail (BR) '5', Austerities 2-8-0; 2-10-0 tests; performance; fitted coach train test; Westinghouse; d.o.b. 1929-01-03, railway work 1943-1956, Derby Works, No 9 Shop; Derby Motive Power Depot, station; Chaddesden Sidings; Brunswick, Liverpool; Stratford motive Power Depot; Westerleigh; London St Pancras; Trafford Park; Annan; Dumfries; Stratford Motive Power Depot; Holyhead; Euston; London Midland & Scottish (LMS);

Webb, Pat

2003-01-29
Articled Accountant: Accountant in the Private Sector; Chief Accountant, Western Region of BR; AGM Sundries Division; GM National Carriers; Group Co-ordinator, National Freight Corporation (NFC); Director, Corporate Planning, NFC; MD British Transport Hotels; Chairman Venture Capital Consortium; Chairman District Health Authority;

Land, Peter

2002-08-13
draughtsman; technical assistant; engineering assistant; assistant district engineer; permanent way assistant; assisitant divisional civil engineer; divisional civil engineer; terratorial engineer; prefabricated track; curved track calculations; mileposts; relationships within department; electrification; permanent way inspectorate; track marking exercise; prize lengths; track profiles, bridge raising, reconstruction; Ordnance Survey Benchmarks; transition from steam to electric traction; ballast train working; explosives; conditions, duties; derailment; high speed junction; various projects described; commuter traffic; promotion; East Coast Main Line (ECML); improved standards, level crossings; routes described; 100 ton bogie wagons; team described; industrial relations, comparison between regions; bomb incident; challenges of new job; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); high-speed, electrification surveys; Selby diversion, difficulties, project finance and responsibilities; first train over the diversion; value of electrification project; theft of overhead equipment; resignalling; 140 mph running; class 91; electrification; First Aid Committee, York; d.o.b. 1928-08-27, railway work 1954-1989, Northhampton Castle Station; Northampton Marshalling Yard; Peterborough; Blisworth; West Coast Mainline; Bedford; Glenford Junction; Long Buckby; Watford; Ribblehead; Preston; Settle & Carlisle; Lake Windemere; Low Gill; Clapham, Yorkshire; Lancaster & Morecambe; Doncaster; York; Shaftholme Junction; Gainsborough; Newark; Marshgate Works Depot; Bawtry; Newcastle; Monkseaton; King Edward Bridge; Leeds; British Rail (BR); London Midland Region; Crewe Alexandra Football Club; Derby School of Transport; National Coal Board (NCB); British Railways Board (BRB); Swiss Federal Railways; Eastern Region;

Payne, Philip

2003-01-24
apprenticeship; technical assistant; assistant works manager; premium apprentice; post war shortage of materials; installation of oil facilities; dieselisation programme; training courses; high capacity of coal wagons, merry-go-round trains; information for new equipment; new materials used for wagon sheets; containers; Second World War, experiences; wartime work; nationalisation; first run of Silver Fox; first mainline diesel run end of 1940s; d.o.b. 1921-09-15, railway career 1939-1983, York Goods Station; York Carriage and Wagon Works; Darlington Locomotive Works; Banktop Shed; Cowlairs Carriage and Wagon Works; Wolverhampton; Railway Technical Centre, Derby; Shildon; Horwich foundry; North Eastern Railway (NER); BREL; Freightliner;

Cooper, Richard Lister

2003-04-23
clerk, port shiping, operating; chief clerk (class 4); assistant controller (class 5); passenger trains clerk (class 1); MS2 operations officer; railway control; army train operation; freight train group returns; nationalisation 1948; Sir Henry Johnson, Gerry Fiennes, W.G. Thorpe, John Bonham-Carter, proteges of George Docking; crisis management; shift work; Certificate in Railway Economics and Operations; T.B. Hare; importance of control in wartime; location and buildings; modernization; relief controller; locomotive controller responsibilities; section controllers description; contiguous districts; shifts; turn arounds; John Willie Dedman; signalling and accidents section; district from division; timetable changes; diesel depot; royal journey; new traffic organisation; rationalisation; merger; electrification; connecting services; train planning work; wagonload traffic; pay-train; closure; block trains; soft fruit, sugarbeet, milk, fish traffic; role and work of operations officer; bomb scares; strikes; sectional councils; Jimmy Knapp; bottlenecks; officer's mess; Train Planning Officer; Channel Tunnel, pathing; Sir Robert Reid; d.o.b. 1926-08-19., railway work 1942 to 1982., Cambridge, station, control, diesel depot; Liverpool Street; Norwich; Nottingham London Road; Doncaster; Gorton Works; Dunkinfield Works; Bordon; Liss; Liverpool; Town Green; Aughton; Princes Dock; Manchester; Coldhams Lane; Whitemoor, up yard; Temple Mills; Norwood Yard; Sudbury; Haverhill; Fenchurch street; Bethnal Green; York; Hamilton House; Tilbury; Basildon; Broad Street; Waterloo; Derby; Crewe; Watford; Woking; Ilford; Longmoor Military Railway; Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway; Great Eastern Choral Society; Felixstowe Dock & Railway Company; London Tilbury & Southend Line; Southern Region; British Railways Board (BRB); London North Eastern Railway (Southern Region); (LNER); BR, Eastern Region; BR, Southern Region; British Transport Staff College

Unwin, Raymond

2002-12-05
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
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;
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 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;
junior clerical posts; clerical posts (staff section); sundries division; National Carriers Limited (NCL); industral relations officer; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); goods inward; train ferry, vegetable traffic; night shift; Vacancy List; horse section Southern Area; cartage and deliveries, horse shunting dities; traffic apprenticeship; Staff Office; Traffic Manager's Office; reorganisation, pay and efficiency; rationalisation and transfer; redundancy; d.o.b. 1921-10-24, railway work: 1938-1981, Broad Street; Bishopsgate goods depot; Spitalfields; Covent Garden; Liverpool Street Station; King's Cross; Peterborough; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Midland Region (LMR); National Carriers Limited (NCL); Railtrack;

Standen, Frank Charles

2002-11-06
probationary clerk; class 3 clerk; clerical officer (CO); head of section (CO4); travel centre manager; telesales manager; passenger & goods; railway studentship scheme, goods depot project; divisional experience; formal training, day release, Institute of Transport; cattle transportation; coal co-ordination section; merry-go-round (MGR); research and planning section; early digitalisation; freight train, passenger train planning, survey; draft timetables; service improvements; group travel section; shift working patterns; travel centres; fraud; staff shotages through dismissals; All Purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); Portable Ticket Issuing System (PORTIS); conflict between staff; despatch of tickets; group travel; telesales office closure, operating problems; National Rail Enquiry Service (NRES); value of business travel; Regional Railways North East (RRNE); complaints procedure; Birmingham-London service, complaints; trade union membership; d.o.b. 1946-09-24, railway work: 1965-2000, York Goods; Foss Island depot; Leeman Road; Knottingley passenger & goods; Castleford; Hunslet goods; Wellington Street; Bradfod Valley; Woodlesford; Holbeck; Healey Mills; York booking, HQ; Skegness branch; Leeds; Sheffield division; Hull; Gilberdyke; British railways (BR); Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB); National Coal Board (NCB); North Sea Ferries; British Telecom (BT);

Scotney, John

2002-09-06
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
engine cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; driver; racehorse special train; horse boxes; safety; freight locomotives; turntable; rivalry between companies; lodging; water troughs; oil-burning locomotives; fumes, health; diesel railcar; diesel working; d.o.b. 1918-07-21, railway work: 1937-1983, London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS); Midland & Great Northern Railway (M&GN); Wisbech goods yard; New England yard, Peterborough; Spital; Whittlesea; Rugby; Leicester; Yarmouth; Sutton Bridge; Lynn; Northampton; Camden; London Euston-Crewe; Willesden junction; Leighton Buzzard; Loughborough; Wellingborough; Brent; Watford; Derby;

Herbert, David Harold

2002-05-27
shorthand typist; learning railway geography; claims office; Second World War; travel to work; First Aid; holiday relief clerk; Morse code; computers; d.o.b. 1913-01-27, railway work: 1929-1968, London Euston, Broad Street; Southend;

Maley, Doris Isabel

2002-06-07
probationer clerk; junior clerk; shorthand typist; clerical exam; description of station; claims office; Miss Green, tutor, explanation of course; work description; typing emergency instructions; roneo notices; VIPs, royalty, film stars, dictation, standards; outdoor machinery section; d.o.b. 1939, railway work 1957-1963, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne; Alnwick; Hertfordshire; Northumberland; Ware Station; Liverpool Street; Chertsey; Waterloo; London Bridge; Southampton Docks; Sheffield; Derby; Plymouth; Bristol; Shell Mex/BP; Alnwick Gazette;

Shalice, Brenda (nee Pow)

2003-01-21
carriage works apprentice; coach painting; coach testing; signwriting; cleaning; polishing; shopman; work standards; training; safety; wagon works; circus train; Dr Beeching; permanent way, railman, trackman, ganger, chargeman; York Railway Institute; d.o.b. 1930-05-29, railway work: 1947-1993, National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); Hull & Barnsley Railway; Bertram Mills Circus; British Road Services; York carriage works; Clifton carriage sidings; Derby; Egton Bridge; Newcastle; Darlington; Whitby; York Railway Institute;

Pinder, Lionel Barry (known as Barry)

2002-05-15
railway family; messenger lad, goods depot; conditions, hours, uniform; railway horses; Railway Home Guard; royal train; staff mess facilities; relief van/lorry driver; nationalisation; parcels; trade union branch secretary; parcels concentration; redundant; motor driver; National Freight Corporation, NFC; trade union militancy; training; safety; depot merger; decline of parcel business; warehouse manager; d.o.b. 1925-01-19, railway work: 1939-1990, National Freight Corporation, NFC; London Marylebone; London King's Cross; Bowes Park bridge; Bayford tunnel; New Southgate; Hatfield; Finsbury Park; St Pancras; Somers Town; London Paddington; Great Northern warehouse;

Ellis, Reginald Harry (Reg)

2002-05-31
probationer clerk; clerk +2 levels of promotion; MS5; assistant director; duties of clerk conditions of pay; staff section, histories, footplate staff disciplinary procedure; record management; commercial department, broaden experience, goods and passenger stations; control; footplate bous; time sheets, graphs, mechanised systems; train timings, East Coast Main Line (ECML); pegasus computer; progressive computerisation; national traffic data; scientific principles applied to freight operations; movements and development section; implementation of Total Operations Processing System (TOPS), Theodore Strong, David Bowick, James Urquhart; Bob Arnot; transponder system; union problems; view on railways late application of freight system; fleet reduction; data processing merge; rationalisation; d.o.b. 1933-02-12, railway work 1949-1990, Hull; Hessle Road; Dairycoats; Springhead; Doncaster; Scarborough; Dringhouses Yard; Leeds; Great Northern House, London; Darlington; Marylebone; Carlifornia; Cornwall; Premier Oil & Soap & Co; Avery Scales; Needlers; Fenners; British Railways Board; IBM; British Rail (BR);

Green, Ken

2003-01-16
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;
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
traffic apprentice; supernumerary assistant to district passenger manager, then district goods manager; assistant yard master; assistant head of freight, Eastern Region; traffic manager; works assistant; bulk terminals manager; freight planning manager; chief operating manager's department; rail travel, Second World War; accountancy; training; nationalisation; marshalling yards; managing style; coal traffic; reorganisation; merry-go-round working; steel traffic; Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); trade union impact; privatisation; d.o.b. 1921-12-21, railway work: 1949-1983, London and North Eastern Railway; British Rail; Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB); National Coal Board (NCB); British Rail Eastern Region; British Rail North Eastern Region; Freightliner; Speedlink; Hadley Wood accountancy school; Bishop's Stortford; Sheffield Victoria station; Ipswich; Grimsby; Eastern Region headquarters, London Liverpool Street; York; Gascoigne Wood, Selby; Toton; Aire Valley; Knottingley; London King's Cross;

McCarter, Charles

2002-
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
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
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
clerk; traffic apprentice; stationmaster; area manager; freight depot manager; area manager; divisional operating superintendent; management services manager; divisional manager; regional operations manager; safety programme director; ticket office; daily routine; Lewisham accident; staffing stations; initial training; rules and regulations; signalling inspectors; training, motive power department; freight train investigations; box visits; staff problems; Tom Rixon; total signal failure; railway houses; disciplinary; staff shortages; Lionel Sebright; depot badly managed; change management; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); working management courses; operating discipline; rationalisation; electrification; nuclear flasks; Her Majesty's Railway Inspectors (HMRI); diesel multiple units (DMU); flooding; points failure; career moves; handling disputes; Spa Road incident; revenue protection; commuter associations; management of all aspects of accountability; strike 1988; Automatic Train Protection (ATP); Southall accident; Clapham accident; CLI 55 doors, backside covering; class 47; Signals passed at danger (SPADS); revenue protection; royal trains; safety management group; changing of work practice following accident; theory of structure simplification; haphazard management development; empowerment; d.o.b. 1935-09-21, railway work 1956-1992, Catterick; West country, Exeter; Eden Park; Elmers End; Clock House; Hither Green Booking Office; Collumpton; Newton Abbott; Taunton; Bristol temple Meads; Merthyr Tydfil; Worcester; Torquay Line; Banbury; Kemble; Shrewsbury District; Gloucester Eastgate; Uxbridge; Twyford; Southall; Newbury race; Cheltenham; Carlisle; Perth Depot; Quintinshill; Workington; Sellafield; Nottingham; Headquarters, Paddington; Didcot power station; Westbury; Chippenham; Beckenham; High Halden; Dover; Doncaster; Newton; Dillington House; Swindon; British Steel Corporation; Eastern Region; National Coal Board (NCB); Western Region;

Poynter, Bob

2002-11-19&27
clerical posts; O.V.S. Bullied, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME); records centre, rolling stock; double deck rolling stock; delays to trains; wagon unloading; Freight sundries; General Manager's office Waterloo; trolleys and tractors; electrification Isle of Wight; collection and delivery traffic; National Parcels plan; automated baggage; working conditons in railway offices; d.o.b. 1928-04-12, railway work: 1949-1984, Somerset; Easleigh Works, Southampton; Cario; London; Borough Markey Junction; Woking; Salisbury and Isle of Wight; Waterloo; Harrogate; York; Southern Railway; British Rail; London Midland Region (LMR); Southern Region (SR);

Compton, Hugh John

2002-10-24
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
clerk, reservations and enquiries; special traffic; diagramming staff; shipping and international services division (S&ISD); pricing; tours; brochures; Sealink; production manager; group sales; customer relations; privatisation; InterCity; British Rail Community Unit; community affairs manager; d.o.b. 1942-10-04, railway work: 1959-1988, railway work: 1988-1996, Fred Olsen/Bergen Line; Anglia Railways; West Anglia Great Northern; British Rail Community Unit; Kentish Town; London Liverpool Street station; Holland; London Victoria; Lourdes; Eversholt House; Ireland; Ashford; London Euston;

Sowman, John

2002-07-15
accountancy apprentice; works chief bookkeeper; works accountant; audit; area accountant (estates); Secretary of LNER superannuation fund; management training; centralisation of banking; cash flow control; pensions accountant, British Railways Board; former railway company superannuation funds; superannuation computerisation; corporate budgets manager; director of funds; European Community; European Investment Bank; environmental grants; privatisation; d.o.b. 1922-10-26, railway work: 1947-1982, London & North Eastern Railway; British Railways Board; European Community; European Investment Bank; Stratford works; London King's Cross; Peterborough; Woking staff college;

Bradford, William Houliston

2002-06-24
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
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
cleaner; past cleaner; fireman; driver; locomotive types; late 1930s; second world war; working in the blitz; promotion; passenger and freight links; newspaper, special traffic; working with steam; lodging; diesel traction; closed lines, taking up the track; driver training; mutual improvement classes; electric traction; incidents, overhead wires; neutral sections; coal trains; Beyer-Garratt; steam; d.o.b. 1918-05, railway work: 1937-1983, Scottish depots; Bury Motive Power Depot; Northampton; Derby Railway School; Toton;

Knight Leslie

2002-11-30
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
temporary junior clerk; goods clerk, office supervisor, class 4; second world war; dock goods; delivery traffic; no training; conditions; effect of war; blitz; work in passenger coaches, office damaged; salary; hours of work; efficiency exam; D2 T1-11 shorthand and typing; shipping office; invoices, rating and charging; american servicemen; problems; facilites for women, docks offices; goods agent; confusion of wagon numbers; grading structure, equal pay; national insurance stamp; trade union; strike action, views; suspension; civil service exam; d.o.b. 1923-12-15, railway work 1940-1961, West Kirby; Isle of MAn; Douglas; Hunt's Bank; Waterloo Dock Goods; Canada Dock; Southport; Liverpool; Edge Hill; Aintree station; Austria, Italy; London Midland & Scottish (LMS); British Railways (BR);

Dickinson, Doreen

2003-01-21
booking clerk, passenger running section; time table office; BTC publications; chief publicity officer's department (passenger); Intercity advertising services; enquiry office; rules and regulations section; self drawn maps; A. Earl Edwards; David Kirby; accident; emergency timetable; publicity publications; 1966 world cup; alphabetic train departure sheets, computerisation; selective prices manual; geographic flow lines; channel tunnel; David Rayner; coded frequency maps; D2 T1-14 sectorisation; Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers andd Firemen (ASLEF) strike; inter-terminal links, London Underground; last Manchester pullman; Chris Green; penalty fares; silver swallow award; methodology; d.o.b. 1933-01-01, railway work 1948-12-04, Sydenham Hill Booking Office; West Dulwich; Austria; East Croydon; Waterloo; Lewisham; London; Stockton and Darlington; Penmanshiel Tunnel; Washington DC; New york; Euston House; London-Brighton; Stansted; British Railways; British Transport Commission (BTC); Terence Cuneo; Transmark; British cartographic Society; Thameslink; Network Southeast; Intercity;

Slatter, Bernard Arthur James

2002-12-04; 2002-12-09
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
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
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
locomotive works apprentice; draughtsman; drawing office; locomotive building, maintenance, repair; conditions, hours, discipline, uniform, tools, shifts, working conditions, washing, heating; women workers; Second World War; tracings; design office; d.o.b. 1924-03-28, railway work: 1939-1946, Southern Railway; Eastleigh locomotive works;

Goble, Peter Eric

2002-04-11
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
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
signalling and telegraph department, watch and clock repairer; railway canteens; clerk, civil engineering staff office; work study; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); Guillebaud Report, pay; social activities, Western Players, drama group; railway hotels; clerk, Chief Civil Engineer's Office; management training; personal assistant, National Carriers Ltd (NCL); comparison with British Rail; redundancies; British Road Services (BRS); personnel and training officer; trade unions; d.o.b. 1934-12-20, railway work: 1950-1974, railway work: 1974-1992 (British Road Services), Retired Employees' Privilege Ticket Association (REPTA); British Railways Western Region; Road Transport Industry Training Board; Aldermaston; London Paddington; Windsor; Darlington; Reading; Talpow; Bristol Temple Meads goods depot; Keynsham; Slough; Penzance;

Porton, Robert A. (Bob)

2002-07-23
works apprentice; workmen's train; Second World War; canteen; marshalling yard; brake shop;royal train, coaches, nursery car, formation, staffing, preparation, shunting, servicing; single line working; special trips with royal train; rebuilding vehicles; social events; d.o.b. 1924-11-05, railway work: 1940(?)- 1987, Wolverton works; Newport Pagnell; Northampton marshalling yard; Bayford tunnel; London King's Cross; London Euston; Ballater; Balmoral; Carlisle; Aberdeen; Hitchin; Bounds Green; Pickering; Barnstaple;

Kingston, Gerald

2002-06-17
signal lineman; special trains; summer traffic; china clay traffic; d.o.b. 1928-06-15, railway work: 1952-1973, English China Clays Ltd; Par; Reading; Newquay; Chacewater; Perranporth; St Agnes; Tolcarn; Trewerry; Burngullow; Roche; Bugle; Luxulyan; St Blazey; Truro; St Austell; Treverrin; Trevenna; Polperro; Falmouth; St Erth; St Ives; Penzance;

Arlette, D.T.

2002-03-19
messenger; claims, transport clerk; MS1; salesman; sales & marketing officer; Schools Class Locomotive; interview, shed foreman; clerical exam; opinions of life; sorting mail, filing; dangerous, fragile goods; conditions of carriage; covenants of early railway agreements; mechanical horses; garage, former stable; racing pigeon traffic; lost property; waste; trade unions; Local Departmental Committee (LDC); Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA); crime; dispensing of district organisation; contract hire; d.o.b. 1937-04-27, railway work 1952-1984, Bromley; Acton; London; Bricklayers Arms; Norwood Junction; Waterloo; Warminster; King's Cross; Camden; Leicester; Derby; Plymouth; Devon & Cornwall; Bristol; South, West Wales; Weston-Super-Mare; Central Railway (SE&C); London Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SC); Deptford Water Board; Merryweather & Co; Southern Region; British Railways; National Carriers Ltd (NCL);

Shalice, John

2003-01-21
management trainee; assistant area manager; area manager; divisional passenger manager; overseas passenger development manager; chief passenger manager; director, passenger marketing services; assistant general manager; employee relations manager; director of operations; general manager; managing director, West Coast Trains; director, business development, Virgin Rail; privatisation; d.o.b. 1946-08-13, railway work: 1968-1999, London Midland Region; British Rail Headquarters; British Rail Eastern Region; West Coast Trains; Virgin Rail; Stourbridge; Oldbury; Northampton; Bristol;

Warburton, Ivor William

2002-05-22
locomotive manufacturer drawing office; tracer; chief tracer; draughtswoman; tracing and drawing tasks; rolling stock; wagons; use of photography in drawing office; relationships between men and women in workplace; decline of railway work at locomotive manufacturers; diversification; railway modelling magazine "Model Railway News"; railway travel; d.o.b. 1934-01-25, railway work: 1950-1961, Richard Sutcliffe & Co.; Charles Roberts & Co.; East African Railways; Horbury, Wakefield;

Kelso, Brenda Nancy (nee Hemingway)

2002-04-23