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engineer; locomotive manufacture; depot inspector; maintenance engineer; divisional maintenance engineer; works manager; British Rail Engineering Ltd, BREL; diesel locomotives; chief mechanical and electrical engineer; High Speed Train; headquarters; single manning; Advanced Passenger Train-Prototype; sectorisation; Railway Division, Institute of Mechanical Engineers; d.o.b. 1931-05-01, railway work: 1955-1987, Metropolitan Vickers; Cora Iompair Eireann; Beyer Peacock; General Motors; English Electric; Southern Region; London Midland Region; Western Region; Manchester; Dukinfield; Derby; Woking staff college; Manchester Business School; Birmingham; Tyseley; Doncaster; Northern Ireland, Dublin, Belfast; USSR; West Coast Main Line; Old Oak Common; Bristol St Philips Marsh; Swansea; Plymouth; Penzance; Weston-super-Mare; Severn tunnel, Sudbrook pumping station; Barry Docks; Taunton; Paddington; Trans-Pennine summit tunnel; Crewe;

Power, Samuel Robert Douglas MBE

2002-01-25

junior clerk; assistant yard master; traffic apprentice; assistant stationmaster; stationmaster; depot manager; goods traffic; cartage; accounts; sundries division; road traffic; National Carriers Ltd; Freightliners; mail order; security; newspaper distribution; operations manager; mechanised handling; National Freight Carriers; Lynx Express; privatisation; director of quality; d.o.b. 1936-01-31, railway work: 1951-1967, left road freight business: 1990, National Carriers Ltd; Freightliners; National Freight Carriers; Lynx Express; Woolworths; Transport Salaried Staff Association; Marks & Spencer; British Railways Engineering Ltd; Great Universal Stores; Gratton; freeman; White Arrow; Post Office; Rail Express Parcels; International Publishing Corporation; National Union of Railwaymen; Initial Services; London Zoo; TNT; United Carriers; Hunslet, Leeds; Healey Mills, Leeds; Laisterdyke; Smeeton; Neville Hill; Melton Mowbray; Blackburn; Burnley; Manchester; Leicester; Hull; York; London; Silvertown depot; Leeds; High Wycombe; Birmingham; Blackpool; Belfast;

Oliver, Cyril

2002-07-03; 2002-07-24;

footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; firing instructor; traction inspector; senior traction inspector; train crew manager; conditions, shifts, mess; mutual improvement class; trade union; Local Departmental Committee; rivalry; single manning; driver training, Deltic, HST; steam-diesel comparison; d.o.b. 1924-01-13, railway work: 1940-1980s, Asociated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Fireman (ASLEF; National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); Trades Union Congress; Gateshead; London King's Cross; Newcastle; York; Stoke Tunnel Barnford; Kentish Town hostel; Edinburgh; Skelton; Bensham; Haydon Bridge; Gascoigne Wood; Bardon Mill; Blyth coal staithes; Tyneside Metro; Sheffield;

Charlton, James Reginald (Reg)

2002-06-27

British Rail research department; continuous communication with trains; line obstacle detection; advanced train control projects; Signal Repeating Automatic Warning System (SRAWS); Solid State Interlocking system (SSI); signalling and telegraph liaison; linking token instruments with a radio network; Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB); Integrated Electronic Control Centre (IECC); leaves on the line; safety; d.o.b. 1942-11-01, railway work: 1970-1997, University College London; General Electrical Company; General Signal Ltd; Westinghouse Signal Companies; Belgian Railways; Inverness-Wick; Leamington Spa; Dorchester; York; London Liverpool Street; West Highland line, Oban-Glasgow; Wales; Matlock;

Cribbens, Alan Hugh

2002-06-18

junior clerk; traffic apprentice; marshalling yards; marketing; freight; major customers; private wagons; freight traffic; reorganisation; management; coal; electricity; freight reorganisation; Train Load freight; Railfreight distribution; privatisation; d.o.b. 1936-07-14, railway work 1952-1994, Grangemouth; Glasgow; Carstairs; Carlisle; Perth; Thornton; Stirling; Lochty; Crawley; Oban; Meldon; Didcot; Edinburgh; Dunbar; Acton; Severn Tunnel; Sizewell;

Smith, Leslie W.

2001-11-27; 2001-11-28; 2002-02-05; 2002-02-06

civil engineer; district engineer; chief civil engineer; director, civil engineering; Second World War; weather, snow, flood; permanent way maintenance mechanisation; trade unions; track inspection; saloon inspection; track renewal; continuous welded rail; derailment; graduate training scheme; McAlpine; research and development committee; advanced passenger train; business sectors; budget; suppliers; corruption allegation; d.o.b. 1926-03-16, railway work: 1948-1988, London Midland and Scottish Railway; British Rail Western Region; St Margaret's Edinburgh; Port Said, Egypt; Forth Bridge; Tay Bridge; Carstairs; Edinburgh; Glasgow Central; Paddington; Uddingston; Carlisle; Watford; Newcastle;

Currie, David Stewart

2002-01-14