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Staff register including, managers, clerks, apprentices, messengers, auditors, guards,...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 410/1862
What’s it about?
This record is about the Staff register including, managers, clerks, apprentices, messengers, auditors, guards,... dating from 1848 - 1862 in the series London and North Western Railway Company: Records. 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)
- RAIL 410/1862
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848 - 1862
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Description (What the record is about)
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Staff register including, managers, clerks, apprentices, messengers, auditors, guards, breaksmen, inspectors, agents, ships crew, signalmen, gatesmen, etc.
A note at the front of the volume states that it includes staff transferred from the Chester and Holyhead Railway 1 January 1859 and from the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway 8 August 1859. Details are recorded, however for staff members who appear to have joined after 1859.
Gives details of date of appointment, name, occupation, rate of wages per week, remarks including dates and information on where the staff member came from/went to or whether they resigned or were dismissed.
Indexed at the front and the back by department and station.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arranged by department (general manager's, audit, coaching, goods, police, steam boat etc) and station (Chester, Holyhead, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Flint, Rhyl, Carnavon etc).
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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 15/66
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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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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
- Labour
- Railways
- Pay and pensions
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4352271/
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Series information
RAIL 410
London and North Western Railway Company: Records
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