David Maidment
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'The Toss of a Coin', Chapter 10 / 2
Steam Specials and Royal Trains - as Officer in charge of both I had some enjoyable and sometimes hair-raising experiences...
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'The Toss of a Coin', Chapter 10 / 1
Back to running trains again - taking charge of operations on the West Coast Main Line (pre Virgin). A few interesting tests we instituted...
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'The Toss of a Coin', Chapter 9 / 2
I move to the BR Headquarters and get involved in departmental politics and significant trade union negotiations that hit the headlines in the 1980s.
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'The Toss of a Coin', Chapter 9 / 1
I become Head of the dreaded department whose role was to increase produuctivity, but first I was sent on a high level 3 month management course involving a week on Swiss railways.
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'The Toss of a Coin', Chapter 8
In 1967 I became in charge of train planning in South Wales, which mainly meant coping with the demands of very active coal and steel industries. How things have changed...
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