Interview about Woburn Sands, Lidlington Brickworks, and travel on the railway from 1940 onwards, particularly the Bletchley-Bedford line.

Eric Redford describes Woburn Sands town and its station in the 1940s, from where he travelled daily to the brickworks. He talks of visits to a friend in the signal box. ‘I was really sad to see it go … Demolished and gone within two hours, a real shame.’ He notes that after diesels were introduced he started travelling by car. Talking of his work, he describes the different types of freight traffic, and specifically the arrival and offloading of brick trains at Ridgmont and Stewartby. He mentions the prisoners of war working at the brickworks, many of whom stayed in the UK. He talks about changes to the stations and level crossings on the Bletchley-Bedford line and the possibility of reopening the Cambridge-Oxford line. He is full of praise also for travel on modern long-distance trains: ‘that’s the way to travel!’