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Yes, that's right. Great detective work there, thanks! You can obviously see why he's interesting to me. Didn't know he went on to run the Preston area. The article clearly states his last two SM positions, so he must have moved from Bispham to Harwood, the question is when? I just can't find...

I was wondering if anyone out there knows about the station masters of Bispham near Blackpool? especially around the late 1930's. I've found Richard Turner appointed SM there late in 1937 but I can't find when he left. Help anyone?

I'm once again stumped - I have only one piece of evidence that a Mr. Johnson was ever a Station Master at Great Harwood, he gives evidence at a trial in an assault case. Preston Guardian, Wednesday 10 August 1887. Name mentioned on page 7, columns 1 or 2. Apart from this article I have no other...

Almost, yes that's correct, but certainly from the 1880's to around the early 1920's beyond Blackburn going east it was Up to Burnley (away from Manchester) and Down to Blackburn from East Lancashire. I was met with fierce resistance to this but OS town maps of Burnley, Nelson and Colne plus L&Y...

I'm so grateful to all of you on this one, I kept looking at one period which going on the pattern (average 4 years as SM here) looked too long. And only a couple of days ago did I come across Mr. Hale. Given the dates from what you tell me, I've now been able to slot him in. A note on the...

I've finally got what I think is a full list of station masters for the three stations on this particular branch line, all 32 of them. However, Stationmaster Mr. Hale (I think that's his name) at Simonstone is reported as catching a woman at the station attempting to leave without a ticket...

I've come up against a brick wall and was hoping one of you might be able / willing to help me find some missing station masters... I have a missing period from 1881 (circa) to October 1888 for Simonstone station. I have Robert Chadwick listed as SM in the April 1881 census, and William Webster...

I came across a newspaper article from the 1950's of a railway man retiring. In it, it describes he has service bars for 20 and 28 years, to me, they look like awards for long service on the railways. But what exactly were service bars? did you wear them? what does one of these bars look like...

Totally agree with that. Thanks for the Typo correction! - The SM at Padiham was certainly supervising Simonstone in 1960, with Simonstone only 1 mile away by rail, and journey time of just 3 to 4 minutes, you could quite easily come to the conclusion that when Mr. Meiling left Simonstone, the...

I'm going all the way from the 1870's to 1960, so it's the L&Y, LMS and BR periods. I think you've summed it up in a nutshell here. That was my thinking too. To mess up at a small station is one thing, doing that at a larger busier station could cause big problems. Since I posted this, I've...

Well over this Christmas and New Year period, I decided to look for more station masters (SM for short) for three stations on a certain branch line. What I found was a clear pattern with regards to an SM's length of service at these stations. The two town stations have SM's who are in post for...

@Rescars - Some great questions here: I can see on all of the drawings I have in my collection they are certainly signed by someone, presumably the draughtsman. I honestly don't know the answer to that one. The blue crosses shown on both 1st class gents waiting rooms are drawn freehand, so...

I finally got copies of two drawings showing the plans of Padiham station yesterday, 18 December and thought I'd share my initial findings and hopefully have some questions answered. These copies are from the National Archives, and the originals are undated but must be from between 1871 and...

From my 1962 summer WTT (18 June to 9 September 1962): The 1H50 Colne to Stockport ran daily from Colne and departed 8am. On Saturdays it ran to Euston, denoted as 1A21. As this was summer time, the Monday service also ran to Euston until the 27th of August. The route is as stated, I can see it...

Yes I agree, as covered before on other threads, it's daylight hours and reasonable weather were the deciding factors on the whole. Me neither. The town did have some gas street lighting at the time, but it was still in its infancy. In any case, the line was being constructed out of the town in...

For what seems almost an eternity I've been trying to get some idea / numbers of navvies working on the Great Harwood section of the North Lancs loop construction... The Preston Herald (early May 1870) gives me a very precise number (only 9 weeks in) of 197 at that time employed in the work...

This one took me by total surprise: In July 1870, exactly five months after being awarded the contract to build the Great Harwood section of the North Lancashire loop line, a cricket match was played between the Loop line and an eleven of Great Harwood cricket club. Harwood won 146 runs to 49...

I asked the Nation Archives (NA) to do a page check and it came back successful via an email. In this email it stated I should check out my orders (link provided) so I clicked on the link, signed into the NA with my account, but all that's there is my original page check wording (as submitted)...

I'm trying to find out a little more about John Turner Alcock who was in partnership with Jonas Gregson until 3 May 1872 and had been for some years. Together they were jointly awarded the contract to build the Heckmondwike and Thornhill branch line for the L&Y early August 1866. The contract...

Interesting subject! As mentioned earlier Thompson did replace your grandfather for the boxing day match. One thing I have learnt after asking lots of questions on here is that during holidays, people were prepared to get up very early even for just a day trip. I have examples of trippers...