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Staff register for staff including porters, carriage cleaners, signalmen, guards,...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 23/48
What’s it about?
This record is about the Staff register for staff including porters, carriage cleaners, signalmen, guards,... dating from 1889-1924 in the series Barry Railway Company. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RAIL 23/48
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Date (When the record was created)
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1889-1924
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Description (What the record is about)
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Staff register for staff including porters, carriage cleaners, signalmen, guards, brakesmen, telephone operators, shunters, notakers and female cleaners, etc.
Includes details of name, date of birth, date of joining service, where stationed, grade, changes to pay, date of and reason for departure from service and remarks including information on the award of certificates and incidents involving the staff member such as derailments and delays.
Occasionally details are also given of place of residence (where it is a company house).
Described at item level.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arranged alphabetically by surname.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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BRY15/3
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Closed For 75 years
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
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Open Document, Open Description
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Railways
- Communications
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1819635/
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Series information
RAIL 23
Barry Railway Company
See the series level description for more information about this record.
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Within the series: RAIL 23
Barry Railway Company
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Staff register for staff including porters, carriage cleaners, signalmen, guards,...
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