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Salaried Staff Register [No 2, pages 2093-2592] - Goods Department. Includes station...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 410/1840
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This record is about the Salaried Staff Register [No 2, pages 2093-2592] - Goods Department. Includes station... dating from 1897-1916 in the series London and North Western Railway Company: Records. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 410/1840
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1897-1916
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Description (What the record is about)
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Salaried Staff Register [No 2, pages 2093-2592] - Goods Department. Includes station masters and clerks.
Gives details of employee name, position, date of birth, date of joining the Company's service and salary, remarks on promotion to other departments and/or stations, resignation, retirement and death-in-service details. Occasionally, provides details of fathers of staff in the Company's service
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arranged by station.
The documents in RAIL 410/1838-1843 and 1845-1850 comprise two separate Salaried Staff Registers for the periods pre-1897 (No 1) and post-1897 (No 2). These volumes are not arranged sequentially in this record series; their arrangement is as follows:
Register No 1 (split between RAIL 410/1842-1843, 1847 and 1850):
- Pages 1-579: RAIL 410/1847 (Coaching Department).
- Pages 581-1087: RAIL 410/1842 (Goods Department).
- Pages 1089-1599: RAIL 410/1843 (Goods Department).
- Pages 1601-2139: RAIL 410/1850 (Miscellaneous Departments).
Register No 2 (split between RAIL 410/1838-1841, 1845-1846, and 1848-1849):
- Pages 1-572: RAIL 410/1845 (Coaching Department).
- Pages 573-1132: RAIL 410/1846 (Coaching Department).
- Pages 1133-1612: RAIL 410/1838 (Goods Department).
- Pages 1613-2092: RAIL 410/1839 (Goods Department).
- Pages 2093-2592: RAIL 410/1840 (Goods Department).
- Pages 2593-3088: RAIL 410/1841 (Miscellaneous Departments).
- Pages 3089-3568: RAIL 410/1848 (Miscellaneous Departments).
- Pages 3569-4048: RAIL 410/1849 (Miscellaneous Departments).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later volume [No 2, pages 2593-3088] see RAIL 410/1841
Indexed L-Z by RAIL 410/1852
Indexed A-K by RAIL 410/1851
For previous volume [No 2, pages 1613-2092] see RAIL 410/1839
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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)
- LNW 15/44
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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))
- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Railways
- Pay and pensions
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4352249/
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Series information
RAIL 410
London and North Western Railway Company: Records
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