Interview about work on the rail tracks between Wolverton and Leighton Buzzard, and for the Post Office, including memories of Bletchley Station.

Syd Seymour describes his job in the Signal and Telegraph gang, the dangers and specific incidents. He remembers that staff in the engine cabs would throw out coal so that the track gang could brew up in their hut. When they were called in to help clear snow off the tracks they got an extra sixpence an hour. After British Rail he joined the Post Office; he contrasts the frequent and speedy deliveries in the past with today’s Royal Mail. He describes the dispatching of mailbags on the Travelling Post Offices (TPO) at ten o’clock at night, loading mailbags on to a gantry at a hut in Water Eaton. His memories of the railways include the Old Post Office at Bletchley Station and other old buildings now gone such as the Railway Terrace houses. In his opinion the best train was ‘The Blue Deltic’, a very powerful diesel that could only be run at half power. He talks about the extension and refurbishment of Bletchley station to take longer trains as Milton Keynes grew.