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Some Special Interests => Occupation Interests => Topic started by: patcan2 on Wednesday 19 July 17 13:10 BST (UK)
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looking for railway workers list any ideas please
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Have a look at this list of records from the National Archives, it gives details of what archives are held from the company and where they are.
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F173181
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Ancestry have some Railway records:
UK, Railway Employment Records, 1833-1956
The collection features selected records from the following companies:
RAIL397: London and North Eastern Railway Company
(and others)
However piece no 13 is missing.
When I tried to look for my G-Grandfather's records, I found it more cost-effective to employ a specialised Railway researcher.
I live on the Isle of Man, and would have to pay for transport and accommodation if I went to Kew!
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Try Doncaster archive and look for the record of the GNR Sick and Friendly Society.
From 1923 when the LNER was formed membership was opened to staff on all parts of the new company.As there was no sick pay it was in effect a staff register as virtually all joined it.
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Findmypast has some trade union records from the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick, and they include some for rail unions:
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-trade-union-membership-registers
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A potential problem with rail union records, specially NUR who represented bus workers where the bus company had been one by a railway company.
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thank you all for your replies I will chase them up
pat
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LNER took over the North British Railway Company, might be relevant?
Skoosh.
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A potential problem with rail union records, specially NUR who represented bus workers where the bus company had been one by a railway company.
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Companies involved: Lincolnshire Road Car, Yorkshire Traction, United. These are just those I have had
involvement with. Basically to fight competition from road transport during the 1920s and 1930s most if not all the mainline railways bought interests (at a minimum) in many regional bus operations. Embryonic integration of passenger transport?
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LNER took over the North British Railway Company, might be relevant?
Skoosh.
Or, more specifically, the LNER was the new company into which the following railways were grouped in 1923:
Great Northern
Great Eastern
Great Central
Great North of Scotland
North British
North Eastern
Hull & Barnsley (actually merged with the North Eastern in 1922)
and a variety of other minor railway companies; but these were the principal ones.
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Brought up in a railway family & thought LMS was the family monogram! ;D
Skoosh.
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I think there are some railway staff records at the national railway museum.
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Most of the companies omitted from the list are "joint"'companies eg M&GN ran from Nottingham/Peterborough to North Norfolk joint company Great Northern &Midland railways to compete with the Great Eastern in East Anglia, while simultaneously a GN&GEjoint line ran from March (Cambs) to Doncaster via Lincoln to compete with the Midland. This pattern was repeated nationwide, it was a jungle. There are no significant LNER staff records at TNA.
The LNER in common with most companies did not give sick pay, however they ran the Great Northern Loco Friendly Society which on merger day membership was opened to all staff in the new company.
It is effectively a census and it's records are held in Doncaster borough archive.
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I am finding this thread interesting.
My gt gr father worked as a clerk in Glasgow from 1874 until about 1910.
I have never been able to find any mention of him anywhere! ::)
Has anybody any suggestions?
There is a thread on here somewhere.
He was Henry Kane b. 1850 ish near Armagh.
Kooky
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Caledonian railway.
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Most probably either Caledonian or Glasgow & South Western. Both became part of the LMS, and so their records will have gone to Derby where they were destroyed by fire in 1950.
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Thank you both.
That's that then! :(
Kooky
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Not quite. Look for other records of the companies of a similar type (sick funds etc) to those I referred to for the GN sick fund. There may be similar records to those in a Scottish archive in the Glasgow area. Never give up.
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Kooky, have you thought of trying the Glasgow Poor Law records at the Mitchell Library, a mine of information if your man, or his family, ever applied for relief & most folk did! Mostly destroyed elsewhere in Scotland, Glasgow's are kept in storage & after searching the index the ledgers are brought to your desk on a wheelbarrow! ;D
I found a claim by my grandmother, my grandfather was a hammerman in the Caley, Springburn, but took pleurisy & was off work, he received money from a railway scheme for so many weeks then she applied to the "Parish!" That was the Caledonian Railway Works, later the LMS.
Springburn also had Cowlairs, the North British Railway Works, later the LNER, & other works including the NB Loco, the North British Locomotive Works, which made engines for export.
My grannie was awarded a few shillings after a visit from the inspector who wrote in the notes that he will try to recover this money from his father! ;D Try the Mitchell!
Skoosh.
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Thanks Skoosh!
I will look into it.
Kooky