| Description | Track 1: Charles Parker interviews Jim Howarth about John Axon's character and about changes in people's attitudes to a job on the railways, 2.02 mins Track 2: describes John Axon coming home and giving a post-mortem on his job, talks about the accident in which John Axon died 'he never had a chance', 1.55 mins Track 3: talks about the joint breaking, the one joint that could have caused the accident, 1.37 mins Track 4: Charles Parker asks about the events leading up to the accident; Jim Howarth describes the line outside Buxton, and explains why John Axon couldn't stop the train, 1.44 mins Track 5: continues Track 4, Jim Howarth explains why he couldn't reverse the engine, 2.04 mins Track 6: 2.23 mins Track 7: talks about the young men today, it's a job, not a way of life, 'railways go through your spine like Blackpool went through rock', 2.20 mins Track 8: talks about promotion on the railways, took longer in the old days, 2.28 mins
Total: 16.37 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 7L448C0474774 |