David started his railway career as a station supervisor at Kingston, where he watched and learned how a station worked and was run. A transfer to become a train dispatcher at Waterloo and soon a guard started to become his greatest dreams coming true. Soon a move to Chester to raise his family enabled David to become a driver and then a driver instructor. His greatest moment, packed full of pride, was the day he saw several of his trainee drivers handing on their trains to each other.