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Oral history audio recording of Margaret Goy (b.1941).

WLM/027

Interview covering topics such as train travel in the 1960s, Bletchley Station and comparison with train travel currently.
Interview comparing train travel in the 1960s and today.

WLM/027/001

Margaret Goy recalls the cafeteria at Bletchley station; she used to take her children there when they travelled to visit family in London. They used trains regularly, on days out and to visit family; prices were very good. Asked about memories of railway staff, she comments that in the past there was always a guard ...
Oral history audio recording of a male resident (b.1948).

WLM/035

An interview with a railway cleaner and fireman from 1964 to 1967. Topics include training, working hours, the links system and the skills of a fireman.
Interview about working as a cleaner and fireman from 1964 to 1967.

WLM/035/001

This interview has copyright restrictions, for more information please contact Living Archive.
Interview about travelling on the railways.

WLM/037/001

Agnes Seymour recalls arriving by train in Bletchley with their twin babies; railway staff were helpful with manoeuvring a twin pram. After living in London, she recalls thinking that Bletchley station was ‘very tiny’. Her memories of the railways are only as a passenger, although she and her husband used to take their sons to ...
Oral history audio recording of Bob Merivale (b.1947).

WLM/039

An interview with a railwayman who served in Bletchley from 1962 to 1967, starting as an engine cleaner. Topics include wages and working conditions, the Railway Club at Bletchley, the Great Train Robbery, and the transfer from steam to diesel and electric engines.
Interview about work as a railwayman in Bletchley during the 1960s.

WLM/039/001

Bob Merivale talks of attitudes in Bletchley to working on the railway – a job for life, with a good pension. He recalls his medical, starting work as an engine cleaner and describes shift-work and the dangerous working conditions in the engine sheds. But the young cleaners managed to have some fun as well; he ...
Oral history audio recording of Dennis Lovett (b.1953).

WLM/042

Interview with a railway employee who has worked as a senior manager based at Euston from 1970 to 2006. Topics include his career, railway communities, the railways in wartime, changes to railways since the 1950s and the importance of future development.
Interview about railways, railway communities and changes on the railways in past and future.

WLM/042/001

Dennis Lovett describes his first job and subsequent career at Euston Travel Centre, covering a wide range of administrative aspects of the railways. Working in the corporate affairs department, he was usually involved in promoting the railways politically and to the media. In particular he recalls his role in testing new Virgin trains. When he ...
Oral history audio recording of a male resident.

WLM/015

Interview with a Bletchley resident who worked in the Railway Signals Department for a period. Topics also include memories of Far Bletchley and it residents.
Interview with a long-term Bletchley resident about the town and his work.

WLM/015/001

This interview has copyright restrictions, for more information please contact Living Archive.
Oral history audio recording of John Alan Cox (b.1932 ).

WLM/017

Interview with a long-serving railwayman about his career on the railways from 1949 as a cleaner,fireman and engine driver. Topics include descriptions of jobs, working conditions, training and comparison of diesel and steam engines.
Interview about life as a railway worker and engine driver based in Bletchley from 1949 onwards.

WLM/017/001

John Cox first describes being a cleaner, both inside and outside the steam engine: ‘you used to get as black as the ace of spades!’ He goes on talk of training to be a fireman and describes features of the fireman’s job, the difficulties managing heavy brick trains, and working on the Bedford to Cambridge ...
Oral history audio recording of Merlin Figg (b.1941).

WLM/018

Interview with a railway fitter and electrician. Topics covered include apprenticeship from 1956, diagnosing problems with engines, working on the Breakdown Gang, and the effect of privatisation.
Interview about railway apprenticeships, the jobs of fitter and electrician, the Breakdown Gang, and changes to the railways.

WLM/018/001

Mel Figg first describes railway apprenticeships, which in his opinion were very thorough and varied. He describes aspects of his job as a fitter on steam engines, and compares steam and diesel. The new electrical engine depot opened in Bletchley in 1966 and he recalls some suspicion at that stage of the ‘cockney’ arrivals in ...