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Railway Employees is there any Web-sites?

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Linda

Linda Report 13 Jun 2007 11:19

Hi, don't know if anyone can help but is there any Web-sites that cover Railways in the late 1800s, particulary the L & S. W.R. Co. for Workers, Background info, photo's etc, Glad of any ideas, Thanks. Lynn.

Heather

Heather Report 13 Jun 2007 11:38

Linda, as Reg says, ANYTHING you wont info on should be google searched on the internet - its an amazing source. Ive bumped up the google thread for you to help.

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 13 Jun 2007 11:42

First stop...........google....... Reg

Anne

Anne Report 13 Jun 2007 11:44

For background railway information try the National Railway Museum in York. They are digitising a lot of their archives. Anne

Jane

Jane Report 13 Jun 2007 11:54

Linda, Sadly, there's precious little in the way of surviving personnel records. The National Archives in Kew has a couple of files which might help - relating to station masters. The people at York are most helpful, please do post their latest news here when you've chatted with them. Regs Annie

Linda

Linda Report 13 Jun 2007 11:59

Thanks, yes that's what I was trying while waiting for any replies, or rather having another go as tried bfore posting, ashamed to say still useless at it even using ' & + s still can't find anything that's helpful, perhaps there just isn't anything. Will try York tho' Lynn,

Heather

Heather Report 13 Jun 2007 13:32

I seem to remember that rootsweb have a board dedicated to railway workers.

Heather

Heather Report 13 Jun 2007 13:45

Yep, they do and so do Cyndis lists (google search finds dozens of sites) Havent checked them out - you have a go - just put in railway workers uk and google search The following rootsweb one, replace asterisks with full stops. http://freepages*genealogy*rootsweb*com/~sponholz/railroad*html

Paul Barton, Special Agent

Paul Barton, Special Agent Report 15 Jun 2007 17:25

Hang on.... this query has been up two days and nobody's mentioned the Black Sheep Index site. Do I have to do all the work round here? :-)