Johs Smith joined British Rail in 1977 and progressed to managing rolling stock maintenance at various locations, including Longsight, Bounds Green, Willesden and Wembley. He also worked at Crewe on overhead line engineering during the Crewe remodelling of the 1980s and at Derby as project manager of InterCity's secondary door-locking project. By the end of the BR era, he had risen to become deputy managing director Anglia.
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