Rushes / 08/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Including shots of the site internal and external exhibits and visitors shunting King Feisal outside the collections building MiniDV Rushes 'Locomotion, August 2005' 2005-07-31
Rushes / 08/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Including shots of the site internal plus external exhibits, and visitors, shunting King Feisal outside the collections building MiniDV Rushes 'Locomotion, August 2005' 2005-07-31
Rushes / 05/08/2004 / Approaching Scarborough, at the turntable, departing Scarborough MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman' 2004-08-04
Rushes / 18/09/2007 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Pressing the backend of Flying Scotsman's boiler at Pridhams boilermakers Tavistock, Devon, pressing the backend MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman's boiler backend, 2' 2007-09-17
Rushes / 10/10/2003 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Erecting the steelwork, the collections building MiniDV Rushes 'Shildon, Locomotion construction, 3' 2003-10-09
Tape 7A / 09/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / RETB Inverness rushes / Steve Muirhead interview, Inverness Signal box RETB MiniDV ' RETB Inverness, 7A' 2006-08-31
Rushes / 26/02/2009 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Interview with Dennis Hartley, WW2 (WWII; World War 2) wartime memories, working in movement control in the London docks, interviewed by Lynn Patrick MiniDV 'Dennis Hartley 1' 2009-02-26
Rushes / 27/07/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Flying Scotsman at the Scarborough station turntable MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman July 2005' 2005-07-26
Rushes / 19/07/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Scarborough station Class 58's, platform scenes, on train Alan Pegler, boys birthday party, shop York station MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman to Scarborough' 2005-07-18
Tape 4A / 09/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / RETB Inverness rushes / Continuation of cab ride from Garve to Loch Carron MiniDV 'RETB Inverness, 4A' 2006-08-31
Rushes / 31/08/2004 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Scarborough to York, window views, Flying Scotsman passes Howsham gates MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman' 2004-08-30
Rushes / 26/02/2009 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Interview with Dennis Hartley, WW2 (WWII; World War 2) wartime memories, working in movement control in the London docks, interviewed by Lynn Patrick MiniDV ' Dennis Hartley 2' 2009-02-26
02-05/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Working on crown stays (15/02/2005), burning inside smoke box (10/02), Inside boiler (02/03), Cylinder boring (12/04), Cylinder boring (18/05) MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman 2004-2005' 2005-04-30
Oral history interview with David Thomas conducted and recorded by Matthew Hick on 17 July 2012, at the National Railway Museum. Duration: 1 hour. Background; starting as a volunteer, campaigning for York as NRM site, site requirements, museum opening 1975; Friends of the National Railway Museum (FNRM) group established, Lord Downs, member of Stephenson Locomotive Society, joined FNRM; [00:03:40] FNRM details, membership, presence at NRM, how volunteering began; DT stopped volunteering early 1980s due to work pressures [00:06:10] maintaining contact with FNRM; stewarding trains, examples, organising York Evening Meetings (1994), York FNRM Evening Meetings, details, numbers, benefits to FNRM; [00:09:00] volunteer recruitment; end of 1990’s, volunteer recruitment and training co-ordinator (autumn 2000), information points and miniature railway volunteers, Claire Evans, background in training and recruitment, detail, job satisfaction; [00:15:50] other aspects of volunteer recruitment; formation of millennium volunteers in York, opportunities to get younger volunteers, reservations, failures, developing records, IT development, volunteer database development; [00:22:10] volunteer management; volunteer manager (Kate Wadden) appointed (2002), coming to terms with having a manager, success at working together, volunteer manager success across museums in the group, continued when Matt Thompson appointed, links with other volunteer officers, job satisfaction continued; [00:27:00] volunteering development; Railfest 2004, Matt Hick impact; [00:29:00] what drove the first volunteer push; concern to move volunteer recruitment quickly, contributory factors in helping recruitment; [00:32:30] why NRM increased volunteer numbers, recordkeeping on volunteers, value of volunteers; reasons for recruiting more miniature railway volunteers, not enough drivers, recruited 10; [00:34:10] driver training provided by Director of Engineering Richard Gibbon; [00:35:00] Back of House teams; Tuesday night team managed by Rich Gibbon, changed when Richard Gibbon retired; [00:36:50] highlights whilst a volunteer co-ordinator; satisfaction of people who were recruited and stayed, some still at NRM; [00:38:00] changes in volunteer recruitment, applicants with “their own agendas”, now recruit against a job description, applicants with impediments, improving inclusivity in recruiting volunteers, turning down applicants, dealing with difficult cases, museum needs to “get what it needs”; [00:43:00] roles at NRM; would have liked to have been involved in locomotive support, linked to family history, role carried out like in professional career with British Telecom (BT); [00:45:00] last 12 years; enjoyment, good support, enjoyed working with Claire Evans; shock of having a manager; Railfest 2004, challenges managing volunteers, keeping up with changes; [00:48:00] change in relationships between staff and volunteers; more co-operation and co-ordination, closer links with learning team; [00:49:50] change in relationship between the volunteers and FNRM; [00:51:00] Why NRM appointed a Volunteer Manager (Kate Waddon); DT volunteers 1 day per week and for FOH volunteers, appointment to cover whole spectrum of volunteering, volunteering in better shape now, very positive development; [00:53:00] reflections on own volunteering experience, no disappointment overall, found it difficult in 1 day per week role, keeping pace with what is happening; [00:55:50] how family views his volunteer endeavours; [00:56:20] aspirations for future volunteer programme; get people that the museum needs, questioning impact of economic crisis on future of volunteering [00:59:36] [end of interview] David Thomas interviewed by Matthew Hick 2014-10-13
Oral history interview with Glynn Waite conducted and recorded by Bob Gwynne on 22 September 2017 at the National Railway Museum. Duration: 2 hours 9 minutes 25 seconds. [Start of interview, 00:00:00] Joining British Rail 1960, Trains Office Derby, diagramming, train staff planning, special trains; [00:04:30] area covered, freight timetable, Derby to Barnt Green, Hornsbridge at Chesterfield; Birmingham, freight traffic analysis, wagon surveys; changes, introduction of diesels working ‘out and home’; [00:09:00] line occupation surveys; diagramming journeys and staff; [00:10:30] different jobs before being involved with TOPS; TOPS at Cardiff, start with Ebbw Vale cutover, TOPS in South Wales; [00:16:43] problem with Cardiff Tidal/East Maws works; use of Ventek terminals, issues, wagon surveys, [00:20:49] missing wagons, ‘Cripple roads’, loading wagon data into TOPS; [00:24:32] TOPS survey staff, cutover process, working hours; [00:29:25] impact of TOPS on Area Managers, attempts at economies, TOPS helping reduce amount of wagons and introduce air braked wagons; [00:35:26] TOPS and locomotive maintenance on Western Region; [00:42:39]economies, elimination of consignment notes, survey, traffic flow introduction of numbers for clients, economies on clerks and paper; [00:47:47] goods offices rationalisation, reduction in sidings, new methods of working enabling savings; [00:49:30] job at Speedlink 1984-1990; [00:50:21] TOPS moving into privatisation, non geographic allocation of reporting offices; [00:54:40] planning redundancy but kept on to work out how to affect the move away from geographic location; [00:57:36] TOPS 2000 introduction, link with privatisation; division within privatised freight network, change to Windows operating system; [01:02:23] TOPS 2000 implementation, TOPS offices for BR mainline; TOPS responsibility area (TRA), capacity limits and rationalisation, Worcester TOPS office closure, further rationalisation; [01:07:08] reason for TOPS office locations, marshalling yards, reasons for rationalisation and TOPS staff redeployment; [01:11:47] TOPS clerks, recruitment and grades; [01:14:40] Freightliner, coal/cement, links to TOPS; difference between TRUST and TOPS; [01:17:01] TRUST and LARTA, geolocated train departures; how to put in a new location [01:21:50] locations for companies; wagon load, marshalling yards, train loads rather than individual wagons; [01:25:07] merry-go-round system (MGR), automation, including wagon numbers and weights, MGR wagons kept in trains; Toton, only two roads on down-side, wagon weight limitation at some collieries, MGR wagons revolution; [01:30:17] TOPS 2000, more people understand the system, area managers and shunters can input TOPS; TOPS direct (Eric Straw), Wolverhampton Steel Terminal, training on using TOPS, including Masboro Control; [01:35:10] EWS move; cut over Swansea Borough, Newport 1974, returned 20 years later to cutover to shunters; removal of Rowntrees traffic, closure of Dringhouses yard, closing yards, Parkeston; reflection on railways during time of career, sectorisation hierarchy, Bury St Edmonds example, Peterborough-Grantham, division of payments in pre-privatisation era; [01:43:04] sectorisation process, new thinking, cost of running railway has increased, GNER causes wage inflation with drivers, causing train cancellations elsewhere;[01:49:02] career overview, lodging at Railway Hostel, Loco hostels, redundancy, WR change, traffic analysis, Rowsley, Derby, Crewe, Nantwich, Bridgend, Sheffield, TOPS implementation, Speedlink, RFD, Manchester, Islington; EWS attempts to replace TOPS; Freightliner poached Glynn from EWS with traffic; [02:01:20] work as a consultant sorting out new freight flows, sectorisation, end of Speedlink, lack of knowledge; Michael Portillo, every freight flow had to make 8.5% return on assets; [02:06:50], privatisation, increasing distance of freight flows [02:09:25] [end of interview] Glynn Waite interviewed by Bob Gwynne 2017-09-18
Oral history interview with Margaret Willmot conducted and recorded by Dr Jonathan Aylen on 8 December 2016. Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 28 seconds. The interview focuses on Margaret Willmot’s experience as a junior programmer on TOPS (Total Operations Processing System) at British Rail. Start of railway career, TOPS (Total Operations Processing System), education, computing degree, job application; [00:03:23] British Rail induction, COBOL programming language, computing people vs railway people career approach; BR computer centres, machine types; work on TOPS at Blandford House, gender stereotypes, work on TOPSTRANS; [00:07:30] programming language in TOPSTRANS, assembler based macro language, how it worked, [00:14:23], computer core memory, data storage on magnetic tapes; TOPS customed built equipment, operating system; [00:18:30] disc drives vs tape drives, online vs offline processing; [00:20:00] TOPS wagons team, coding applications related to wagons, how coding was done, equipment used, punch cards, tele-type, team reaction to online machine, typing cards, programmers and typists, typing error example; [00:23:35] writing new enquiry for commodity code, modifying existing code, American code vs British Rail code, STANOX, TOPS Responsibility Areas (TRA), end of punch cards; [00:26:05] ventek cards 96 columns punch cards vs 80 column cards, no use of paper tape on TOPS; [00:29:51] enquiry for commodity code, security in TOPS; safety, preventative maintenance of wagons in TOPS, ‘cripples’ wagon; [00:32:20] TOPS wagon team, colleagues, organisation, way of working, hard coding, complexity of wagon movements in Scunthorpe area; [00:36:05] modification to original American TOPS for use by British Rail, example of obsolete codes for United Kingdom application; TOPS telecommunication, BR private phone lines; [00:41:10] British Rail choosing IBM over ICL; training on TOPSTRANS by Southern Pacific, relationship with Americans, helping with issues, BR staff visits to USA; interviewer discussing origin of TOPS; [00:46:20] example of computer crashing with application programme, technical issues and requirement, human errors rather than programme errors, example of issues with wagons, missing wagons, numbers painted on wagons; wagon audited against TOPS data; [00:55:00] working hours, office based work, junior position, reflections on experience on TOPS, camaraderie in TOPS team, TOPS experience useful in next job, if TOPS is still in use; date formatting in TOPS, space saving format; [00:59:30] leaving TOPS and British Railway, career after TOPS, San Francisco based computing company, revenue system for Eurotunnel; [01:01:00] further reflection on experience on TOPS [01:02:28] [end of interview] Margaret Willmot interviewed by Jonathan Aylen 2016-12-08
2022 transfer of NSMM Historic Public Records to NSMM Corporate Archive under the Public Records Act. As a public body SMG has a statutory obligation to permanently preserve its historic public records and make them accessible to the public. These files have been selected for permanent preservation as historic public records. As a Place of Deposit under the Public Records Act, the NSMM Archive can accept the organisation’s own public records. The process of transferring the permanent records to Archives will mean that the files become part of the SMG Archive collections, as formally accessioned items. It consists of 430 corporate files, relating to the NSMM site. The corporate files are listed in spreadsheets available for loading into ADLIB. document
Framed and glazed coloured plan of Kensington Gore Estate of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, mounted with a printed description. Coloured plan of Kensington Gore Estate of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 1878
(1910). One framed and glazed coloured plan, mounted with printed description, of Kensington Gore Estate of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. (1910). One framed and glazed coloured plan
Letters private. Secretary's Office, Division of Science. Department of Science & Art [being the out-letterbook of Lyon Playfair as secretary to the division, covering period 1854 Jan to 1856 Dec. He was secretary of the science division from the Science & Art Department's creation in 1853 and of the united department from 1855 to 1858] Letters private, Secretary's Office, Division of Science. Department of Science & Art 1854-1856
Plaque, commemorating No 7 Radio School, Royal Air Force Signal Service, signed by Chester herald 8"x11" Plaque, commemorating No 7 Radio School 194-
20/09/2007 / Filmed by Chris Hogg at Corbridge / Commentary on the John F. Thompson films, Ann Bishop, Judith Corman, David Brumby ; Ann Bishop and Judith Corman interview, speaking about their father Master MiniDV 'Commentary on the John Thompson films, 3' 2007-09-20
04/09/2008 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Flying Scotsman restoration, drilling the cylinder plate Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman restoration' 2008-09-04
Tape 5 / 09/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / RETB Inverness rushes / Includes cab shots, Donnie Mackenzie (driver) using the RETB equipment, the landscape from the train, Scotrail trains in Inverness station Master MiniDV 'RETB Inverness-Tape 5' 2006
01/08/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Railway nursery Poppleton, York, final open night Master MiniDV 'Railway nursery Poppleton' 2006-08-01
09/2010 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Rushes Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman National Railway Museum workshops' 2010
24/06/2001 and 2-3/07/2001 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Shinkansen, Thrall to National Railway Museum via the ECML (24/06/2001), plus Moving Shinkansen into position in Great Hall (2-3/07/2001) Master MiniDV 'Shinkansen on East Coast Main line (ECML)' 2001
01/2003 / Tape 3 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / The remaining railway telegraph poles, lineside between Keith and Inverurie, Scotland / Anne Sharkey and Betty Forrester, interview conducted by Robin Nelson Master MiniDV 'Railway telegraph demonstration, 3' 2003
22/07/2009 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / HST's etc. Forth Bridge rushes; HST's National Express and first Scotrail 170's on the Forth Bridge, also shots of the bridge being re-painted Master MiniDV 'HST's and other traffic on the Forth Bridge' 2009-07-22
26/02/2009 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Interview with Dennis Hartley, WW2 (WWII; World War 2) wartime memories, working in movement control in the London docks, interviewed by Lynn Patrick Master MiniDV 'Interview with Dennis Hartley' 2009-02-26
19/05/2007 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Saturday, in NRM, bands, including Pleasire cell, The Humour, New York Alcoolic, Anxiety attack Master MiniDV 'Northern trax concert, tape 1' 2007-05-19
Rushes / 18/09/2007 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Pressing the backend of Flying Scotsman's boiler at Pridhams boilermakers Tavistock, Devon, pressing the firebox Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotman's boiler backend, 2' 2007-09-18
15/07/2004 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / On the A1 at Scotch corner, entering Shildon town, into Locomotion Master MiniDV 'Deltic to Locomotion, 2' 2004-07-15
Oral history interview with Don Collins conducted and recorded by Tony Steadman on 22 January 2015 at the interviewee’s home. Duration: 34 minutes. How he started volunteering at NRM, interest in railways, involvement with Friends of NRM (FNRM); Information Points, managed by Clare Evans; started volunteering in 1995; career as civil servant, worked at Chilwell, moved to York; [00:05:00] volunteer recruitment interview with Clare Evans, social aspects of volunteering; knowledge of railways; training with visitor experience courses; [00:10:00] evacuation instruction; miniature railway; training with Richard Gibbon; diesel hydraulic power; [00:15:00] difficult to start engine; took over roster; top and tail with two locomotives and two crew; very flexible volunteers; [00:20:00] new layout needed more drivers; started in 2015; [break in recording] trained as a guard; passed stricter exams for guarding; [00:25:00] Volunteer Awards event at Christmas; relationship with explainers, not so much affinity now due to their change in role; [00:30:00] help from staff in early days; not so much now; 20 years a volunteer; change in ways volunteers are managed, supervised, now use team leaders [00:34:12] [end of interview] Don Collins interviewed by Tony Steadman 2015-01-22
24/11/2007 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Old time Christmas NRM, including railway institute band Master MiniDV 'Old time Christmas National Railway Museum 2007' 2007-11-24
11/2003 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Traffic on M9 Edinburgh daylight plus at dusk, Traffic on Southside of Forth bridge Master MiniDV 'Road traffic' 2003
10/11/2009 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Shots of the equipment used in the show Master MiniDV 'Learning platform Science show, 2' 2009-11-10
02-03/07/2008 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Tent empty (02/07), Scaffold erection (03/07) Master MiniDV 'The Railway Children (setting up the tent)' 2008
Tape 3 / 30/10/2009 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Harwich Hook of Holland rushes / Views from the 'Stenna Holandica' of the Sunset at sea, entering the port of Harwich at night Master MiniDV Rushes 'Harwich to Hook of Holland, Tape 3' 2009-10-30
Oral history interview with Garry Huntington, conducted and recorded by Jo Bath over two sessions in 24 and 25 February 2004, as part of the Time Track oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 2 hours 17 minutes. [Disc 1] Childhood, family background, parents and schooling; [00:03:55] starting work at Astraka fake fur factory, [00:05:05] early history of Astraka, its role in the development of fake fur, [00:08:27] breaking into the Russian market, [00:10:55] famous clients, [00:12:22] uniform, diversification and closure; Winter Olympics; [00:15:54] a working day, relationship with designers; [00:18:57] funny mistakes; customer service; making a horse blanket; [00:22:15] working as a trouble shooter and with catalogue companies; [00:24:50] early work in the stores, training and negotiation for better job; [00:28:21] work of the technical department; [00:29:24] lack of union activity or protest; [00:31:03] highs and lows; relations with the directors; [00:34:55] social and sports facilities; [00:37:25] various homes; [00:39:15] the canteen and the estate, damp problems; [00:42:20] staff discount; [00:44:25] career as a councillor, working in housing; [00:48:00] Recent elections and signs of recovery; move towards residential area; [00:53:45] 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary, cavalcade, love for steam trains; [01:00:00] Shildon railway works, workers coming out of the works, [01:03:51] works open days; [01:05:15] impact of the works closure in 1984, signs of recovery; [01:11:46] sports as a child, meeting his wife [01:14:59] [end of disc 1] [Disc 2] activities and leisure in Shildon, rock and roll, dancing, fashions and culture; [00:07:20] housing then and now, development; [00:11:24] making do, clippy mats; [00:14:00] New Shildon old shopping area; [00:15:40] open cast mining; [00:19:58] carnival, foot running, gambling and cheating; dressing up; [00:24:24] Shildon’s Banana factory, Geest; [00:28:09] the Dunns; [00:30:25] Shildon people, problems with private rents; [00:32:30] poverty as a child, neighbours arguing; [00:36:20] extreme weather, snow in 1947, flooding; [00:42:35] paste eggs, "jarping", holidays, working men's clubs; [00:49:16] the Railway Institute; [00:53:12] boxing, learning to box at Hackworth's workshop, watching fights [01:02:06] [end of disc 2] [end of interview] Garry Huntington interviewed by Jo Bath 2004-02-24
01/03/2008 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Unveiling of EWS Class 60 at the National Railway Museum, named Teenage Spirit and supporting a teenage cancer trust, locomotive in blue with a DB logo Master MiniDV 'Unveiling of EWS Class 60 'Teenage spirit'' 2008-03-01
Rushes / 07-08/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Leaving Scarborough, Huttons Ambo river bridge, Towthorpe road Haxby, Low Hutton, Hutton Ambo, Scarborough + 158's, Hutton Ambo, Seamer, York station and 225 (Flying Scotsman), Bootham Stray crossing Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman-July and August 2005' 2005
23/07/2008 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Interview with Philip Horton, passenger on the 15 Guinea Special, talking to Lynn Patrick Master MiniDV 'Interview with Philip Horton' 2008-07-23
Tape 3 / 20/09/2010 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Les Thomas senior tracklaying supervisor retired, remembers his life on the railway; based at Darlington from 1950to retirement, interview at Locomotion Master MiniDV 'Les Thomas interview, 3' 2010-09-20
26/02/2009 / Tape 1 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Kenneth Dunderdale, WW2 (WWII; World War 2) wartime memories, fireman based in Leeds, interviewed by Lynn Patrick Master MiniDV 'Interview with Kenneth Dunderdale, 1' 2009-02-26
19/04/2007 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Views of Glasgow central station from roof of multi storey carpark Master MiniDV 'Views of Glasgow Central station' 2007-04-19