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Garlick, Gladys

2002-12-06
lad porter; carriage cleaner; porter signalman; break of service; signalling; traffic management and supervisory; station manager; Uniform, messenger; working hours; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), sick fund, pension arrangements; Sir Brian Robertson; methods of carriage cleaning, external, internal; fruit traffic, football specials; gas lamps; ticket issue arrangements; slate system for tickets; types of signalling, examination permissive/absolute working; crossing fire, discipline; local union representative, Local Departmental Committee (LDC); hours of working; incident with mail train; industrial action; railway correspondence course, steam lance; rail incidents, fatal, Diesel Multiple Units (DMU); withdrawal of InterCity line, line closure; Closure of offices; class 47 derailment, safety; staff relations; Sealink; Sir Peter Parker; ferry sailing supervisor; d.o.b. 1932-08-13, railway work: 1947-1992, New Holland, Dock, Pier; Doncaster; Hull; East Lincolnshire; Barrow Haven; Barton; Immingham West Junction; Oxmarsh Crossing; New Bridge Street; Suggetts Lane Signal Box; Grimsby; Cleethorpes; Barnetby West; Northorpe; Great Coates; Habrough; Pasture Street box; Sealink;

Guilliat, Fred

2002-08-07; 2002-08-17;
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
d.o.b. 1937-06-29 railway work c.1952-1981

Guiel, William Edward

2001-09-15
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
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
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-
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
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; 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
Craft apprentice at Meols Cop car sheds, Southport; start date 1943-05-10; electrical fitter for 4 months; Drawing Office at Formby Power Station; Lancaster - Morecambe - Heysham; integration of power supplies on Mersey / Wirral railways; training at English Electric, Preston and Bradford; Assistant Electric Traction Engineer, North London; Stonebridge Park Power Station; Electric Traction Engineer, Manchester; Manchester -Bury, Manchester-Altrincham electric services; Woking Management Course 12; Electrification Engineer, Glasgow; Airdrie-Helensburgh services; South Clyde electrification; Law Junction Depot; Divisional Maintenance Engineer, London; Traction Maintenance Engineer, BR HQ; service problems working groups; Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, York; High Speed Trains; retired in 1983, returned to Southport; The Shaftesbury Society; Christian Faith and involvement with Church; visits to Nigeria and Brazil; involvement with Channel Tunnel; d.o.b 1928-01-25, Railway Service 1943 to 1983. Dick Kerr and Company; English Electric; Barclays, Kilmarnock; Meols Cop; Southport; Horwich Works; Formby Power Station; Manchester; Glasgow; Greenock; Wemyss Bay; Marylebone; Euston; Derby; York;

Sourbut, John Alan

2005-01-27
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
clerk; management trainee; assistant area manager; trains invetigator; chief clerk; station/traffic manager; area parcels manager; human resources manager; lodgings and travel; rostering; tickets; scrapping of steam locomotives; fare structures, manual; sugar beet, supply of wagons; Midland Mainline, performance; third rail, direct current; incidents; petrol tank and suicide; product change; privatision; human resources training; d.o.b. 1944-08-13, railway work 1966-1995, Cheltenham; Knottingley; Healey Mills; York Headquarters; Ipswich; Burry; Richmond; Hounslow; Ipswich; Staines; Feltham; Brussels; Sheffield; Glossop; Sheffield; Crewe; Westinhouse Brake and Signal company; Durham University; British Rail Board (BRB); London Underground Limited (LUL); British Rail (BR); Saga; Golden Rail; St Edmind's sugar beet; National Cash Registers (NCR); Red Star Parcels; International Red Star; Euston Parcels Group; Red Express;

Tyrrell, John Campbell

2002-02-18
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
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
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
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
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
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
tracer; head of laboratory; assistant director (engineering); chief of research; general manager; project manager; director; joining the railway; training; civil engineering laboratory; soil mechanics; research department; T.M. Herbert; new laboratory opened by Duke of Edinburgh; Dr Beeching; John Ratter; dieselisation; Stanley Raymond; Sydney Jones; Tony Brindle; hovercraft difficulties, profitability; Board Headquarters; David Bowick, Lance Ibbotson, K.V. Smith; Arthur Butland, Chief Civil Engineer; study tour; various chairmen at Transmark; long term projects; d.o.b. 1927-01-12, railway work 1949-1986, London; Hong Kong/Malta; Paddington; Derby; Marylebone; Isleof Wight6; Waterloo; North America; Iran; Queensland; Egypt; Chicargo-Detroit; Brisbane; Botswana; Kenya; Zambia; Zimbabwe; British Rail Board, Headquarters; Office of Research and Experiments (ORE); Union Internationale des Chemin De Fers; Hoverspeed Ltd; Transmark; Soferail; Betchel;

Bartlett, Don

2002-12-05
time clerk; FRS clerk; stock clerk; clerical officer; motive power depot; rosters; signing on; office conditions; accidents; weighbridge; reorganisations; train announcer; power signal box; modernisation; lack of training; signing on point; union involvement; telephone enquiry bureau; complexities of fares systems; little modern equipment; computerised systems; conditions of position; attitude of supervisors; disability issues; d.o.b. 1935-08-18, railway work 1960-1996, Tondu Motive Power Depot; Port Talbot; Swansea Goods; Preston Docks; Preston Area Manager's Office; Preston Telephone Enquiry Bureau; Great Western Railway (GWR);

Pearce, David, (Gordon)

2002-06-28
guard; d.o.b. 1957-03-17, period c.1957-1994, Tonbridge Wells

Philip John Baldock

2001-09-17
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
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
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
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;
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
railman; training; pension; guard; staff award; Super Sprinter; deputy relief supervisor; platform supervisor; ethnic minority staff; youth training scheme; recruitment; privatisation; trains leader; Clapham accident, safety; Railtrack, crossing keeper; work atmosphere; uniform; fatal incident; safety training; d.o.b. 1957-03-27, railway work: 1979-1997, railway work: 2001-present, Newcastle Central station; Tyne yard; Northampton; Birmingham New Street station; Carlisle; Clapham junction; Milton crossing box;

Brown, David

2002-07-08
training; TOPS, Total Operations Processing System; passengers, mail trains; public relations; workplace culture; single manning; Morpeth derailment; reduced traffic; industrial relations; personal assistant to BR Chairman, Bob Reid 1; resources manager, European Passenger Services; Channel Tunnel; Waterloo International station; Eurostar; funding disagreements; redundancy; consultant; Office of the Rail Regulator; d.o.b. 1951-10-15, railway work: 1973-1996, Western Hydraulic Locomotives; Royal Mail; Western Region; Derby Railway Technical Centre; European Passenger Services; Channel Tunnel Rail Link; Bristol; Newton Abbot; Bristol Temple Meads; Taunton; Birmingham; Newcastle; Blyth; Morpeth; Bedlington; Dartford; Tyne marshalling yard; Slade Green; London Bridge; Waterloo International; Channel Tunnel; Kensington Olympia; North Pole Eurostar depot; Waterloo and City line; Willesden Junction; Ladbroke Grove; Ashford International station;

Woods, Michael Dennis

2002-04-24
licensing; traffic apprentice; training; marshalling yards; steelworks; coking plant; coal mines; depot merger; freight; Beeching, reshaping plan; sectorisation; Provincial Railways; rolling stock replacement; costs; Sprinter, diesel multiple unit (DMU); consultancy; d.o.b. 1933, railway work: 1957-1989, Sheffield; Nottingham District; Toton yard; Great Central; Corby; Hasland; Westhouses; Tibshelf; Erewash valley;

Pattison, Ray

2002-05-22
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
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
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
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
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
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
driver, (leading railman); interview process; facilities for women; railway's attitude to women; uniforms; female guards; closure and relocation; National union of Railwaymen (NUR); assistant fare collectors, equipment and methods; national conference agenda (NUR); National Women's Advisory Committee; political background; freight guard; passenger work; Local Departmental Committee (LDC); guards, footplate volunteers; hostile atmosphere; driving; diesel multiple units (DMU); training; instructors, communication problems; sexual harassment; ethnic workers; european and acts of parliament; electrification; Railway Development Society (RDS); Railway Passenger Committee (RPC); Transport Users' Consultation Committee (TUCC); d.o.b. 1956-04, railway work: 1982-1994, Edinburgh; Manchester; Hyndland station; Yoker depot; Glasgow; Northern Clyde; Partick; Motherwell; Perth; Queen Street/Eastfield; Swansea; Liverpool; South Africa; Inverness; Scotland; British Railways; Scotrail;

Henderson, Ann

2002-09-02
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
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
clerk; accounts clerk; accounting apprenticeship; head of statistics management, accounts; traffic accountant; Philip Shirley; civil and signal engineer's accountant; accountant (development); accountant (revenue and statistics); standardisation; senior finance officer; financial accountant; information technology; All Purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); staff reduction; sectorisation; privatisation; d.o.b. 1931-12-17, railway work: 1947-1989, British Rail Southern Region; British Rail London Midland Region; Sheffield; Waterloo;

Elliott, Lewis

2002-07-19
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;
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
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