Man of the Rail
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- Author(s) Pearson, Arthur J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1967
- Pages 203pp; illus
- Publisher Allen & Unwin
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Arthur J Pearson was a senior railway manager working in the 1930s for London Midland & Scottish Railway. 1947 moved to Railway Executive [Chief Administrative Officer], to British Transport Commission in 1953 and finally to London Midland Region of British Railways in 1958. Retired 1963. Autobiography of his business career. Has sections: 'Liverpool - the Cheshire Lines Committee'; 'London and journalism' [ie his work for 'Modern Transport']; 'Euston - back to the railway service'; 'Railway mechanical engineering'; 'Railway civil engineering'; 'Railways in the Second World War'; 'Nationalisation of railways'; 'New steam motive power policy - women in the railway service'; 'The British Transport Commission takes over railway management'; 'Railway catering'; 'Electrification and brakes'; 'Work at 222 Marylebone Road'; 'Return to Euston'; 'Problems at London Midland'; 'Retirement'