Interview with Stanley Charles Frederick Vaughan

Sketches progress from signal-box boy to signalman, to area manager on Great Western Railway (GWR). Briefly recalls strikes, mentioning damage done by 1982 strike. Talks about hours worked, company loyalty. Describes uniforms, talks about station masters, 'top hat' stations. Mentions workman's ticket into Leicester, freight carried including milk, fish trains. Describes circus trains, farm removals, mentions coal at depots not being so good after nationalisation. Talks about transporting soldiers during Second World War, using horses up until 1950s, station cats, special trains such as for hop pickers