Autobiography
'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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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter One Born on the Goldhawk Road
...a suburban dreamer if ever there was one...
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Precious Time
Often I staggered as if drunk. I was working too hard with little rest and lost conciousness twice of exhaustion. I awoke with a fright terribly startled every morning.
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Afters for Others
Towel dry cuddles, from mums and dads.
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'The Toss of a Coin', Chapter 7 / 2
More anecdotes, derailments,new digs on the coast and chapels in the valleys.
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'The Toss of a Coin', Chapter 7 / 1
A new job,and the railway teaches me to drive, but still the derailments continue as I suffer my 'jonah' role...
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We have to keep the country going third draft
Steyning is twee.
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A house is nothing whilst a home is everything.
A home is full of books,pictures,clutter that we have accumulated over the years.
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'The Toss of a Coin,, Chapter 6 / 2
More tales of a hectic nine months as Stationmaster, Aberbeeg, the last Stationmaster before Area Management abolishes the post of Stationmaster...
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'The Toss of a Coin', Chapter 6 / 1
'The coin is tossed' and I become stationmaster Aberbeeg, an operating post with 70 staff in the Western Valley above Newport. And this influenced the rest of my career...
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