Railway worker - Guard to Platelayer

[barryd]

William John True, Driver of the ill-fated Spitfire Locomotive at Lewisham (1957), was offered a job in the Stores after the disaster. He declined. His Union fought for him and he was pensioned off.

William John Trew was born 17 February 1896 in Bermondsey,  London, on the Surrey side of the River Thames. His father Frederick was a Carman (a  driver of a horse drawn delivery vehicle often used by railway companies) and his mother was Martha Trew.  He was baptized on 27 April 1898 in the Parish Church of All Saints, Newington with his sister Maud Ethel.   Maud Ethel was only a few months old when she died.

Driver Trew died 8 June 1970, Ramsgate,  Kent

[Redroger]

He would not go from Guard to platelayer on medical transfer. A platelayer needs full medical fitness for when working on track next to running lines.

[AnotherJackson]

Fascinating stuff. Sounds like he's likely to have done something he shouldn't have then! Am going to have to get my head round the London and North Western Railway records. That'll keep me out of mischief for a bit 

[Redroger]

Not necessarily. He could have asked for a less irregular  shift pattern than  that of a guard  for a whole  variety  of reasons.