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Garlick, Gladys

Garlick, Gladys

2002-12-06
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
cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; second man; passed second man; driver; acting traction inspector; traction inspector; head of driver training; chief traction inspector; traincrew assistant; traincrew manager; traction and driving manager; medical examination; Ishikara colour-perception; Edridge Green Lantern; cleaner's lobby weaver plant; firing duty requirements; no formal instruction, work practice; cylinder drain cocks; compressed air lances, misuse, accidents; accomodation problems; massive drive shaft; water tower; cotton waste; Fireman's course; management of fire, saftey on the line; first firing shift; lack of health and safety; fire iron; empty carriage working; female engine cleaners; cleaning fire; short passenger working; mutual improvement classes; closure of depot; electric and diesel methods; new types of locomotives; blocked train; use of short circuit bar; royal train; a/c current locomotives; standarised teaching modules; signal school; hidden routes; Advanced Passenger Train (APT); different types of diesel and electric locomotive; driver training; driver only working; High speed trains (HST); fatal collision; turntabl, pits, steam specials; Dutchess of Hamilton; relationships with foreign train companies; TGV; Malcolm Southgate; Trans-Manche super train, driving cab design, PS1, PS2, first team in France; recruitment of drivers, criteria, profiles; D4 T1-16 driving activites, EPS; union, abandoning seniority; Psychometric tests, language ability; start date May 1993; female drivers, crew; d.o.b.1946-05-14, railway work 1961-2000, Brixton; Nine Elms Depot; Guildford Training School; Basingstoke and Salisbury; Waterloo; Japan; Euston, Carlow Street; Bedford-St Pancras; Wembley; Marylebone; Grove; Deepdene; Canterbury; France; Paris; West Coast Mainline, London Midland Region (LMR); London Transport; Terence Cuneo; London Fire Brigade; SCNF; SCNB; Eurostar; Rail News; Alstrom; British Rail Board (BRB);

Bassett, Philip Edmund

2002-11-22
messenger girl; clerk, wages office, locomotive works; Railway Savings Bank; accounting; introduction of computers; rules on marriage; computer operator; equal pay; branch treasurer, Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA); Derby Technical Centre; British Railways Engineering Ltd (BREL); Sectional Council; British Railways Board; Management Staff Joint Council; TSSA executive committee member; TSSA Treasurer; TSSA President (first woman in this position); redundancy; privatisation; d.o.b. 1933-06-02, railway work: 1948-1997, London Midland Railway (LMR); Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA); British Railways Engineering Ltd (BREL); Virgin; Derby Wagon works; Derby Technical Centre;

Hanks, Brenda

2002-08-06
immigrant worker, emigrated from Barbados to UK; London Underground; guard training; porter; shifts; road learning; carriage cleaning foreman; electrification; leading railman; women carriage cleaners; managing staff; Railway Mission; attitude to railway; trade union; Local Departmental Committee; bonus scheme; work study; chief supervisor; racism; promotion of ethnic minority workers; customer care; suicides; camaraderie; d.o.b. 1940-09-29, railway work: 1963-1980, Barbados; Newton Abbot, Devon; London; Rickmansworth; Manchester Piccadilly; Manchester Victoria; Crewe; Macclesfield; Alderley Edge; Buxton; Longsight; London Euston; Stockport;

Taylor, Neville Patrick (Pat)

2002-05-23
research and development; head of vehicle dynamics; head of advanced projects; director of advanced projects; director of research laboratories; director of engineering research and development; two-axle wagons; civil and mechanical engineering conflict; freight vehicles; railbus; revenue; investment; funding; Advanced Passenger Train (APT); Advanced Passenger Train-Experimental (APT-E); High Speed Train (HST); design; test track; trade union opposition; electrification; Maglev; Advanced Multiple Unit; mechanised track maintenance; signalling warning systems; d.o.b. 1929-03-29, railway work: 1962-1989, Associated Society of Locoomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); British Transport Commission; English Electric Company; British Leyland; InterCity; Ruston; Turbomeca; Gloucester Design Services; Metro Cammell; Hawker Syddeley Dynamics; Dowty; Houchins; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); General Electric Company; Tracked Hovercraft Ltd; Plasser; Thaurer; Westinghouse; Derby; East Coast Main Line; West Coast Main Line; Melton Mowbray; Nottingham; Old Dalby; Duffield; Derby locomotive works; London St Pancras; Leicester; Glasgow; Manchester; Liverpool; Erith; Scotland; East Anglia;

Wickens, Alan Herbert

2002-03-22
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
office boy; carriage works apprentice; training, carriage construction; drawing office; work study; Winston Churchill's funeral; carriage repairs; general manager's saloon; derailments, continuous welded rail; exhibition trains; weather; wagons, claims, maintenance; privatisation; nuclear industry; Transmark; consultancy; TOPS; d.o.b. 1935-10-06, railway work: 1950-c.1990s, BR Southern Region; London Brighton & South Coast Railway; London Transport; South Eastern & Chatham Railway; Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais (SNCF); Transfera; Rank Xerox; Post Office; New Zealand Railways; English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS); Lancing carriage works; Brighton; Micheldever; London; Eastleigh works; Portsmouth; Southampton; Eastleigh locomotive shed; Slade Green electric sheds; London Victoria station; Stewarts Lane; Waterloo & City line; Isle of Wight; Acton London Transport Executive works; Wimbledon depot; Clapham junction; Bournemouth; Hastings; Ashford works; London Waterloo station; Croydon; Poole; Weymouth; New Crossgate works; Dunkirk; Salisbury; Eastern Europe; Ulster; Belfast; Selhurst; Swindon; London King's Cross; York; Sellafield; Australia; Derby;

Meaby, Arthur James

2002-04-29
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-
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
soil analyst; projects officer; soil mechanics laboritory; (seven disks - see related items section for synopsis). d.o.b. 1939-10, railway work: 1961-1996

Heath, Donald

2002-10-08
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
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
premium apprentice; A.J. Cook; training; drawing office; conditions; progressman; locomotive repair; acting shed master; supervisory shed foreman; relief mechanical foreman; derailment; steam locomotive speed tests; diesel railcar; locomotive shed master; L.P. Parker; O.S. Nock; mutual improvement class; weather, snow; LNER Pacific locomotives; locomotive inspections; mileage; overhauls; Clean Air Act; Local Departmental Committee (LDC); managing footplate staff; discipline, exceeding speed restrictions; Deltic locomotives; technical and rolling stock assistant; maintenance schedule; Class 31 locomotives; end of Divisional maintenance organisation; voluntary redundancy; d.o.b. 1925-08-13, railway work: 1941- , London & North Eastern Railway (LNER); London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS); Midland Railway; Great Central Railway; Great Northern Railway; Hull & Barnsley Railway; Midland & Great Northern Railway; British Rail Eastern Region; Great Western Railway; British Rail Western Region; London Midland Region; Ffestiniog Railway; Gresley Society; A1 Steam Locomotive Trust; Flying Scotsman Association; A4 Society; Doncaster works; Roundwood; Rossington; Doncaster Carr yard; Hornsea; Scarborough; Colwyn Bay; Crewe; Wigan Mining and Technical College; Crimpsall works; Barkeston junction; Ipswich; Norwich; Melton Constable; Cromer Beach shed; Stratford works; Yarmouth; Lowestoft; Leicester; Cambridge; Bury St Edmunds; March; Ely; Mildenhall; London Liverpool Street; Peterborough; London King's Cross; Claypole; London Marylebone; Sheffield; Manchester; Woodhead tunnel; Stoke Bank; Skegness; Hemerdon Bank; Plymouth; Hatfield; Dunstable; Luton; Hitchin; Boston; Grantham; Edinburgh; Newcastle; Edinburgh Haymarket shed; Kentish Town shed; Letchworth; Connington; Melbourne, Australia; Salt River locomotive works, Bloemfontein, Bethlehem, Cape Town, Natal, South Africa; Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); Vancouver, Ontario, Quebec, Canada;

Townend, Peter Norman

2002-05-31
goods depot; traffic; traffic apprenticeship scheme; divisional office clerk; marketing; budgeting; freight; reorganisation; freight marketing, aggregates; business customers; TOPS; computerisation; trade unions, TSSA; management staff joint council; privatisation; d.o.b. 1932-08-14, railway work 1948-1988, Paddington; Reading; BRB headquarters;

Cartwright, Patrick Francis

2001-11-03
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
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
Associated with Public Transport from appointment as Principal Finance Officer for Lothian Regional Council in 1975; appointed as Director of Finance at South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in 1979; retired as Director General of South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in 1998; detailed description of the involvement of the PTEs in the funding of the local rail networks; the role of the Passenger Transport Executive Group and the restructuring of the Rail Industry; Service Quality Regimes; the Franchising Process;

Ritchie, Alex

2002-05-19
porter; head shunter; passenger guard; stationmaster; parcels clerk; station inspector; assistant station master; assistant manager; learned English from railway people; Beeching closures; perks; area management; train incident; discrimination; Queen Mother; interview experience; multi-racial; accommodation; training; working conditions; d.o.b. 1910-01-01, railway work 1957-1989, Kashmir; Kircaldy; Thornton Junction; Kinbrace; Glasgow, Central; Herne Hill; Woolwich; Liverpool; Broadstairs;

Ayub, Mohammed

2003-01-16
chairman, British Rail; management pay; Richard Beeching; Barbara Castle; Harold Wilson; Roy Jenkins; Bill Johnston; public sector working; secretaries of state; role of BR Board; management; trade unions; parliamentary select committees; audits; public relations department; Will Camp; Terence Conran, design needs; David McKenna; Channel Tunnel; balance sheet of change; Rail Council; difficulties of implementing change; electrification; corporate advertising; Transmark; railway community; business sectors; accounting; privatisation; freightliner; Bob Reid; hotels; shipping; Bloody Men's Club; time management; visits out; politicians; civil servants; industrial action; resources; motivation; chairmen of nationalised industries; social responsibility; d.o.b. 1924-08-30, railway work 1976-1983

Parker, Peter

2001-11-20; 2002-02-05
research department; freight vehicle suspension; vehicle steering; Advanced passenger Train (Experimental) (APT-E); group standards; privatisation; InterCity engineer; pantograph work; d.o.b. 1947-09, railway work 1947-c.1990, Derby;

Boocock, David

2001-12-13
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
clerk, staff section, (CO4) stock control; accounts section head; admin & finance assistant to Deputy Chief Executive; entrance examinations; District Engineers Office running powers, company trains; workshops, type of work; addressographs; nationalisation; types of materials in storage, system of charging; stock records; supervisor relations; Direct Labour Organisation (DLO) backlog following Second World War; clerk's duties; modernisation & electrification; salaries; reorganisation of civil engineer department; reconciliation of practice; joint divisional Divisional staff sections; computerisation; Daily Work Returns; time sheets; Chief Permanent Way Inspector; railway traditions; British Rail Board Community Unit; budgets, priorities, amounts available during 1980s; decline of traditional outside staff trades; advances in engineering technology; jointed, continously welded rail (CWR); increase of administration; battery powered lights in trackside warning boards; disadvantages of gas; d.o.b. 1930-09-01, railway work: 1945-1990, Walsall; Crewe; Birmingham; Wolverhampton; London Midland Region; Walsall Enterprise Agency;

Canning, Philip

2002-08-29
fitters work; loco shed master; technical assistant; assistant district power superintendent; traction running officer; subjects, locomotive workshops and drawing office; military railway operating training; 192 Railway Operating Company;banking engines; Italian locomotives; railway build up, d-day, 168 railway workshop company, repair of steam locomotives; conversion of captured German locomotive from coal to oil burning; wheel lathes; 'Medloc' troop train; locomotive casualties; preparing gradient profiles, eastern region; releif of Acting shed manager; break down of old regions, promotions between regions; differing workshop conditions; Mr Frampton; Dick Hardy; L.P. Parker's shed masters' meetings; cleaning up depots; railway estate department; burst boiler tubes, hard water, treatment systems, freight workings, Barrington-Ward scheme; B1 class; hand coaling; 12 coach trains; briquette treatment tubes, increased performance; K3 locomotives; Type 2 diesels, effectiveness, closure of steam sheds; Norman Porter; new Diesel Multiple Units (DMU); Class 37, 40, reliability, responsibility foir footplate staff; High Speed trains (HST); ASLEF; museum and steam preservation activity; d.o.b. 1919-10-06, railway work: 1938-1990s, Midland Min Line; Derby; Doncaster, Carr running shed; Gerrards Cross; Brancepeth; Newark; Longmoor; Italy; Dover; Liverpool Street; King's Cross; Leeds; Leicester central; Hatfield; Hitchen; Woodford Halse; Annesley; Immingham; Banbury; Neasden; Gorton; Lincoln; Middlesborough; Wakefield; Hammerton Street; York; Alnwick; Shildon; London North Eastern Railway (LNER); War Office; London Midland Scottish; Great central; National Coal Board (NCB); Central Electricity Generating Board (GEGB); Urwick Orr management consultants; National Railway Museum (NRM); Clapham Museum; Science Museum; Institute of Mechanical Engineers; Railtrack; Friends of the National Railway Museum (FNRM); First North Western;

Peck, John William

2002-08-28
shorthand typist; personal typist; secretary; general clerk; administrator; finance assisitant (MS1) (MS2) (MS4); finance manager; ambulance section; difficulties, ambitions, contactrs; Dr Spindall, bridge engineer; background to appointment; first day at work; Mr A. Paterson, Chief Civil Engineer, structure of department, duties, computerisation of equations; night school; ultra sonic rail testing train, german connection and visit, commissioning off the train; Carole's responsibilities and team; lack of facilities for women; procedures, dealing with and identifying faults; spot checks; professional and technical grades; research and development division, Dr K.H. Spring; overseas staff liaison; dispersal of London staff, closure; mundane duties; channel tunnel scection; John Mackie, Geraldine Euell; finance work; regrouping; dedicated finance system; Ross Furby appointment, irony; lack of qualifications; separate finance section; upgrade; Alan Gardiner first chief accountant; bill payments; duties and responsibilities; down-sizing; systems change; harrassment; forcibly removed; career uncertainty; modernization; drug screening; D3 T1-7 transfer from paper to computer, passwords; privatisation; promotion MS4; d.o.b. Not made available. Railway work 1960 to 1995. Newton Heath; Euston; Manchester; St Pancras; Derby; Old Dalby Test Track; Utrecht; Muswell Hill; Paddington; Brighton; Victoria; Euston House; Nottingham Computer Centre; London Midland Region (LMR); Kraut Kramer; British Rail (BR); Thames Water; British Rail International (BRI); European Rail Traffic Accounts (ERTAC); Occupational Health Service (OHS); Railtrack;

Brown, Carol

2003-01-11
Civil engineering graduate training; planning; divisional operating manager; director of studies; divisional manager; deputy and general manager; director of strategic studies; vice chairman British Railways Board (BRB);first high speed turn out 1957; Bob Eccles; subway replacement; chartered engineer; interview process; track blanketting paper; track buckle story; bonus schemes; development of mechanical maintenance; track conditions; measured shovel packing; trunk route study; Beeching/Dean; forward look study; Arthur Dean; responsibilities of divisional operating manager; resignalling; Queen of Scots, East Coast Main Line (ECML); staff college, range of duties, Margaret Thatcher; rationalisation; industry relations; working relations, shifts; management difficulties; background to appointment to director of stategic development; planing weakness; development of business; civil service, relationship, interference; privatisation; Serpell inquiry; Bob Reid, attitudes; Peter Parker; preparations for electrification; d.o.b. 1930-07-12, railway work 1957-1987, Leeds; Huddersfield; Standedge Tunnel; Dinsdale Works; Woking Staff College; Northallerton; Ripon; Sheffield; Barrow Hill;

Myers, Geoffrey

2003-04-28
apprentice boilersmith; trade union; working practice and environment; methods; boilersmith; Royal Engineers; boiler shop work, workplace; boiler inspector; breakdown work; work standards; conditions; redundancy; relayer; welder; relief supervisor, quality control; welding inspector; Morgate tunnel welding; Stansted Airport line; ECML Selby diversion; faulty welds; management; NUR; TSSA; Permanent Way Institute; NRM volunteer, Green Arrow, replica Rocket; preservation railways; d.o.b.1933-04-05, railway work 1948-1994, Darlington North Road Works; Stooperdale; Marchwood Military port; Longmoor; Eastleigh; West Hartlepool; Dinsdale; Leeds; Morgate; Stansted; Selby; Ulleskelf; Keighley and Worth Valley Railway; Great Central Railway, Loughborough;

Reed, Gordon

2001-09-17
probationer, signalling and telegraph department; training; mechanical signalling; railway culture; signalling school; signal frames; signal boxes; electrical training; telecommunications; power signalling; assistant technician; telephone engineer's assistant; radio communications; technician; technical officer; Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); maintenance control engineer; transmission data and radio maintenance assistant; IRIS test trains; driver only operations; project assistant; staff training; Integrated Electronic Control Centre (IECC); electrification; fibre optics; telecoms testing and commissioning engineer; public information systems; safety; telecoms auditor, safety, quality and security manager; privatisation; d.o.b. 1947-03-21, railway work: 1962-2002, British Rail Eastern Region; Racall Telecommunications; Corus Rail; Railtrack; First Engineering; Tyneside Metro; Darlington; Redcar; Saltburn; Stockton North Shore; Sunderland; Durham; Heighington; Belasis Lane; Bishop Auckland; Brandon colliery; Brancepeth colliery; Eaglescliffe; Eaglescliffe North; Cliff House, Hartlepool; Darlington Technical College; Tees-side Polytechnic; Middlesbrough; Shildon works; Shildon North; Darlington goods depot; Redmarshall South; Bowesfield; Northallerton; Leyburn; Redmire; Bedale; Catterick; Darlington South; Richmond; Eryholme junction; Croft yards; Geneva signalbox; Tees yard; Thornaby; Yafforth; Grand Hotel, West Hartlepool; Zetland Hotel, Saltburn; Stooperdale offices, Darlington; Darlington North Road works; Newcastle; Percy Main; Whitby; York; Sheffield; Rotherham; Doncaster; Blandford House, London; Hadley Wood; London King's Cross; Peterborough; Cambridge; Derby; London Liverpool Street; Blackfriars Bridge; Saxmundham; Romford; Upminster; Letchworth; Colchester; Basildon; Birtley; Leeds; East Coast Main Line; Killingworth; Haltwhistle; Malton; Manchester; Glasgow; Inverness; Reading; Carlisle; Blyth; Stockton; Scunthorpe; Skipton; Chesterfield;

Midcalf, John Raymond

2002-05-22; 2002-05-24;
junior goods clerk; signalling and telegraph probationer; lineman; installer; traffic apprentice; power lineman; mobile maintenance team; freight clerk; timetable planning; Beeching proposals; consultation; manipulated costings; freight depot manager; National Carriers Limited; assistant area manager docks and commercial; TOPS, Total Operations Processing System; assistant area manager terminals; parcels; BR management; d.o.b. 1935-03-10, railway work: 1950-1985, MR, Midland Railway; LNWR, London & North Western Railway; GNR, Great Northern Railway; LMS, London Midland & Scottish Railway; NLR, North London Railway; NSR, North Staffordshire Railway; S&DJR, Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway; National Carriers Limited; GWR, Great Western Railway; Railway Inspectorate; Kettering motive power depot; Kettering goods; Market Harborough; Seaton; Uppingham; Winston Magna; Rugby; Wigston South; Bedford; Kentish Town; Gospel Oak Bank; Dalston; Bow Junction; Uttoxeter; Camden; London St Pancras; Perth; Edinburgh Lothian Road Goods; Falkland yard, Ayr; Hawick; Whitrope; Perth; Coatbridge; Aberdeen; Glasgow; Waverley; Newport Alexandra docks; Pontypridd; Radyr; Cardiff; Swindon; Buckie; Keith; Edinburgh;

Wilkinson, Brian

2002-05-06
goods agent; trains superintendent; divisional movements manager; general, area, terminals, & divisional manager; deputy general manager; chief operating manager; director of policy unit; general manager; 1955 Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers (ASLEF) strike; derailment; traffic apprentice interview; trade unionism, militants; Local Departmantal Committee (LDC); Bertrum Mills Circus workings; dieselisation; timetable changes; footplate experience; public complaints; livestock handbook arrangements; proof of deliveries; telegraph codes; small-wheeled containers; flat rate testing procedures; 1962 strike; staff shortages; immigrant workers; buffer stores; signalling failure; Bob Poynter; closures; freight delays; fire; joint inquiry procedures; signalmen, interviews, aptitude; 1966 timetable collapse; signal boxes; strikes; mess arrangements; television interview; budget targets; royal train; staff loyalty; management tactics; management messes; three day week; work of divisional manager; disabled access; business expansion; Passenger Transport Executive (PTE), relationships; Margaret Thatcher; Rainhill trials; negotiations; Advanced Passenger Train (APT); Peter Parker; Will Camp; comparitive study of European railways; railways into roads; SPU; Jimmy Saville; HQ move to Swindon; Bob Reid; High Speed Train (HST), operations, new livery; Chris Patten; Parliamentary transport advisor; d.o.b. 1936, railway work: 1959-1986, Slough; Reading; Bristol, Parkway; Bath; Ottram; Cardiff Valleys; London Paddington; Greenford; Oxford; Twyford; Wycombe-Maidenhead; Didcot; Cheltenham; Old Oak Common; Princes Risborough; Penzance-Birmingham; Westbury; Aberthaw; Gloucester; Swindon; Exeter; LiverpoolSettle & Carlisle; Wigan; Milton Keynes; Penmanshiel tunnel; Oxford; Salford; Department of Transport; Foster Yeoman Aggregate; Great Western Railway: London Midland & Scottish; British Rail; ICI Runcorn; Settle & Carlisle; Rainhill; Western Region;

Bradshaw, William P. (Bill). Lord

2002-09-25
manager's clerk; interview; description of hotel; clientel; new manager; office activity; the chef; visits to railway works; general strike; working conditions; accomodation, staff house; ordering stock, making up wages, checking bills; Second World War, attitude; interview by police; alien with enemy connections; local peace society; tribunals; relationship with manager; method of instant dismissal; result of career change; d.o.b. 1904-04-09, railway work 1926-1940, Germany; Liverpool; New York; London; Crewe Works; Rugby Refreshment Rooms; Crewe Arms Hotel; London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMSR), police;

Huber, Georgina (Miss)

2003-01-28
booking office clerk; interview; female worker experiment; shift times; conditions of work; influx of weekly tickets; description of office; war work call up; working in a mans world; clipping tickets; railwaymen always gentlemen; d.o.b.1920-06-26, railway work 1937-1942, Hanley; Derby; Fenton; Swinerton; London Midland & Scottish; Securicor;

Stretch, Edith

2003-01-31
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
engine cleaner; conditions; redundant; porter; senior porter; return to footplate; Second World War; Royal Engineers, 191 Railway Operating Company; fireman; driver; posted to India; Indian Railway Company; ambulance trains; demobilisation; passed fireman; floods; driver; running foreman; Deltics; royal train; d.o.b. 1919-06-09, railway work: 1937-1982, LNER, London & North Eastern Railway; SNCF, Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais; Bengal and Assam Railway; Tweedmouth shed; Eyemouth; Burnmouth; Gateshead; Longmoor; France, Liege, Boulogne; Belgium, Ath; Dover; Tidworth; London; Watford; Dorking; Derby; Bushey; Neasden shed; Liverpool; Clyde; Sierra Leone, Freetown; South Africa, Cape Town; India, Bombay, Calcutta, Nagpur, Kidderpore, Darjeeling; Burma; Egypt, Port Said; Berwick; Kelso; St Boswells; Newcastle; Edinburgh; York; East Coast Main Line; Goswick; North Wylam; Newcastle Heaton shed; Newcastle Central station;

Miller, David Walker

2002-03-27
civil engineering apprentice; junior technical officer; assistant area civil engineer; area assistant permanent way engineer; assistant divisional engineer; divisional civil engineer; assistant chief civil engineer; chief civil engineer; deputy general manager; general manager; director of civil engineering, BRB: director of technical standards; director, Regional Railways; managing director, infrastructure services; Railway Heritage Trust; d.o.b. 1939-08-03, railway work: 1959-1996, Bradford Institute of Technology; Newcastle; Hull; Grantham; East Coast Main Line; Peterborough; London King's Cross; York; Scotland;

Cornell, Jim Scott

2002-06-12
traffic management trainee; traffic assistant; speedlink salesman; contract manager; marketing development manager; resource and contract manager; railfreight manager; national business manager; director; managing director; general manager; marketing director; base training; withdrawal of shunting; MOD; increased air braked services; practical experience; Laurie Spooner; new wagon types; emergence of national freight organisations; Total Operations Processing Systems; Official Secrets Act; reductions of wagons and locomotives; heavy construction, M25; over loading stone wagons; 1990, steel in depression; new relationships with managers and area maintenance engineers; tail traffic opinion; improvements of revenues; revenue; market analysis; privatisation; investment options from abroad; new traffic flows; matching resources to requirements; private siding traffic; most satisfaction, restructuring metals business; d.o.b. 1957-09-15, railway work: 1979-2000, Cardiff docks; Neath; Oxford; Andover; Cardiff; Severn Trent Junction; London; Leicester; Ardingly; Loughborough; Scotland; Tees-Tyne; West Midlands; Wales; Crewe; Lands End; john O' Groats; Carnforth depot; Speedlink; British Railways Board (BRB); Mercer Management Consultants; Transrail Freight (West); Enterprise Network; Transrail; Wisconsin; Rail Express Systems; Railfreight Distribution; Freightliner; English Welsh & Scottish Railways (EWR);

Worth, Julian Kendrick

2002-11-13
clerk, booking, goods, reservation; travel centre shift manager; medical and written exams; starting work at 15; Edmonson ticket system; banking cash; discipline; blank cards; paybills; drawing cash, making up & issue of pay packets; pigeon traffic; signalling exam; sleeper reservations; D2 T1-7 seat reservation; demolition; AEG Multiprinter; IATA licence; car ferry; Golden Rail, Motorail, tickets; takings; credit cards, virtues/drawbacks; All Purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); reorganisation; merging of reservations and booking; interchangeable staff; security alerts; d.o.b. 1939-05-03, railway career 1954-1995, Barford North; Kimberley; Euston Old Station, New Station;

Bratton, William, (Bill)

2003-02-19
junior clerk; goods clerk; work study practitioner, organisation methods; assistant goods agents; goods agent; four years probation; working conditions; horse drawn vehicles; examinations; 1948 nationalisation; mechanisation; management training; national carriers; conditions of service; d.o.b. 1930-06-18, railway work 1944-1988, Wolverhampton; West Bromwich; Birmingham; Stoke; Shrewsbury; British Rail; National Freight Corporation;

Hubbard, Peter Gilbert

2003-01-23
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
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; 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
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
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
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
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
soil analyst; projects officer; chartered engineer; soil mechanics laboritory; disk 2; Sundays measuring voids, study of track dynamics; general manager's office; electrification, 25Kv; new approach to project management; overcoming civil engineering dominance; unrealistic signal engineering project, credits for recoveries; copper stolen; influence of colleagues; submissions; professional project managers, 1968; senior posts given to private sector applicants; friction between departments; sponsor driven projects; politics of projects at national level; tunnel design problems; railwaymen socilalising; new railway in Iran; sir Bob Reid; d.o.b. 1939-10, railway work: 1961-1996, Euston; Oxley; New Street; Coventry; Leamington; Loughborough Chord; Manchester, Victoria, Piccadilly; St Peter's Church; British Rail Research; Eastern Region (ER); North Eastern Region (NER); South East Lancashire North East Cheshire (SELNEC); Tyneside PTE; London midland Region; Transmark; Iranian Railways;

Heath, Donald

2002-10-08
engineer; BR research department; advanced projects group; Advanced Passenger Train-Experimental; Advanced Passenger Train-Prototype; tilting train systems; industrial action over single seat in APT-E; design; funding; High Speed Freight Vehicle; portable ticket issuing machines; General Electric Company; Class 91 locomotive; Docklands Light Railway; Maglev; test track; d.o.b. 1935-01-22, railway work: 1966-1992, BR Western Region; Derby railway technical centre; Derby carriage and wagon works; St Pancras; Leicester; Dover; National Railway Museum, York; Woodhead tunnel; Trafford Park; Birmingham airport;

Newman, Michael

2002-01-21
locomotive depot, cleaner, passed fireman, fireman, driver; instructor, driver, first aid; rules and regulations; "preparation and disposal"; cleaning materials; shifts; training; rule 55; wages; fire bars; boiler cleaning; hard/soft water areas; footplatemen, light duties; running tender first; shunt; fusible plug; cab fittings; clock box; pressure; links; coupling duties; terms of employment; compound; numbering; engine board; Ivatt; 2-6-4 BR standard; Midland 4F; career opportunities; traffic; shifts; union activities; first aid; introduction, diesels; loco failures; Beeching; Brush locos; drawbar; brake tenders; footplate, signing on, drivers lobby; engine diagram; loco checks; sand boxes; turntables; turbine generator; Black 5; Park Royal railcars; 1957 manning agreement; depot organisation; electrification; light signals; Automatic Train Control (ATC); Sir Peter Parker; third rail, Midland main Line; blue pullman; Overhead Line Electrification (OHLE); road learning process, saloon; corridor locomotives; mixed steam and diesel operations; restructuring of working conditions; 1954 pension scheme; closures; incident at Cricklewood; d.o.b. 1933-10-25, railway work: 1950-1998, 15D shed Bedford Midland; Oakley; Hitchin; London; Bedford St John; Egypt; Leicester; Spital bridge (Peterborough); Kettering; Arnley tunnel; Stratford; Brighton; Lees; Gloucester; London, Docks, King's Cross, St Pancras; Sandy; Birmingham. Nuneaton; Hinksey; Southampton; Yarmouth; Derby, St Mary; Bute Street; Dunstable; Hansworth; Wellingborough; Mill Hill; Cambridge Street Loco Siding; Nottingham; Park Royal; Moorgate branch; St Albans; Luton Bute street; Oakley troughs; Sharnbrook; Tilbury; Southend; St Paul's; Sevenoaks/Selhurst/Brighton;Farringdon; Croydon; Brent; Blackfriars; London North Western Railway (LNWR); Rolls Royce; City ThamesLink;

Gibbs, John

2002-09-13
clerk, general managers office; head of group travel, football liaison officer; database assisitant; accounting assisitant; fares development officer; fares development manager; electrical multiple unit (EMU) office; fares, standard , season, inter-regional; tickets, fare books; public complaints; charter courier; football charters; open football trains; ticket machine development; computerised reservation; group travel; disabled; VIPs; introduction All Purpose Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); airline type tickets; privatisation; d.o.b. 1949-06-15, railway work: 1971-1999, Watford; Croxely;

Rhys-Parry, Glyn

2002-10-13
lamp lad; train register boy; goods porter; porter/shunter; footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; diesel training; lodgings; dieselisation; electric locomotives; weather, snow, fog; Local Departmental Committee; industrial action, 1955, 1982; flexible rostering; trade union; pension; d.o.b. 1925-07-15, railway work: 1941-1990, London and North Eastern Railway (LNER); Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); Staddlethorpe; Pocklington; Bridlington; Holbeck; London; Glasgow; Birmingham; Carlisle; Settle-Carlisle; Pudsey;

Morris, William (Bill)

2002-03-06