Farewell Frank McKenna, railwayman who went on to teach
and write, his first book was a glossary of railwaymen's speech
The eldest of ten children, he noted that WWII had saved his family from starvation
his major work;The Railway Workers 1840-1970 (1980), showed he had travelled from engine-cleaner to social historian...
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/30/frank-mckenna-obituary