Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/8/3/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Daten.d. [1957]
DescriptionTrack 1: Alec Watts talks to Charles Parker about working conditions and pay on the railways in the early twentieth century, compared with today, 3.08 mins
Track 2: Charles Parker asks why people work on the railways when the pay and conditions are not as good as in other industries; Alec Watts explains why young kids don't want to work on the railway, 3.10 mins
Track 3: continues Track 2, talks about the benefits of travel and railways abroad, 1.52 mins
Track 4: Jack Pickford talks about first joining the railway when he was fifteen, the benefits of the job and its effect on railway men's wives, 2.38 mins
Track 5: talks about the satisfaction of the job, 1.03 mins
Track 6: talks about daily duty statements, the list of work for the day; railway men's names for trains, 2.21 mins
Track 7: talks about 'married man's tender', 2.10 mins
Track 8: other names for coal - 'rock', 1.40 mins

Total: 18.07

Dubber's reference number: PLA AD335C0495974
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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