Sid Weighell, Jimmy Knapp and Ray Buckton were trade union officials in which industry in the 1970's and 1980's?
Sidney Weighell when the need arose, and when Greene chose to retire in 1975 Weighell won the leadership election, with more votes than all three of his opponents put together, a rare occurrence in the NUR. Following rumours of a massive cut in rail services he threatened to stop NUR-sponsored MPs from backing any kind of bill. He spoke at the 1976 Labour Party Conference, along with Johnny Johnson and Ray Buckton, talking about the deep disappointment following the party's desertion of its election manifesto. During the 1960s he waged a campaign against the conversion of the railway engines to diesel fuel,
Jimmy Knapp age of 31. He moved to London in 1972 to work as a divisional officer, and worked in the NUR headquarters from 1981. When Sid Weighell resigned in 1983, Knapp was the successful left-wing candidate to replace him as General Secretary of the NUR. Knapp had been a relatively junior union officer, having failed an exam to become assistant general secretary. A "candidate from nowhere", he beat the sitting assistant general secretary Charlie Turnock by a wide margin, despite Weighell describing him as "a stooge of the Communist and Trotskyite Left" and "wet behind the ears". As General Secretary of