Chef Makes Tracks After 50 Years and Millions of Miles ; Through 50 Years of Working On the Railways, Derby Chef Terry Foster has Seen Many Changes and Met More Than a Few Famous People Along the Way. On the Day That He Finally Hung Up His Wooden Spoon, He Spoke to Martin Naylor.

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Through 50 years of working on the railways, Derby chef Terry Foster has seen many changes and met more than a few famous people along the way. On the day that he finally hung up his wooden spoon, he spoke to Martin Naylor.

Terry Foster well remembers the day that he started working on the railways.

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Chef Makes Tracks After 50 Years and Millions of Miles ; Through 50 Years of Working On the Railways, Derby Chef Terry Foster has Seen Many Changes and Met More Than a Few Famous People Along the Way. On the Day That He Finally Hung Up His Wooden Spoon, He Spoke to Martin Naylor.

It was 1957 and his mother was working as a waitress at the York Hotel opposite Derby railway station.

Knowing that there were jobs going, she applied for a job as a pantry boy on his behalf.

He said: "I travelled down to London for an interview at Euston...

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