Chief Railway Engineer A resident of North Sheen, he rebuilt Richmond Bridge, Feltham goods yard and reconstructed Waterloo Station in 1915 Born in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire 1858, the fourth son to...

Railway Children’s Home Fundraiser Railway fireman and shunter, Graham raised money for the railway children’s home in Woking The North Downs’ Line have a Railway 200 blue plaque in honour of Ma...

Railway Guard Killed On Duty John, one of possibly six children to Mary née Hall and William Budd, a Southern Electric railway motorman. The family lived on Kings Farm Avenue beside North Sheen stati...

Engine Cleaner, Fireman and Driver During World War II he worked on trains transporting vital ammunition to the South Coast. The son of Florence Catling and Thomas Percival, a L&SW railway fireman...

Engine Driver & Fireman Rescued two children from drowning in a frozen pond during a train journey On 13 Feb 1936, engine driver William Long and fireman Charles Wallace stopped their Southern Rai...

(Albert) Sidney King 1902 – 1978 North Sheen Signalman Liaising with stations and crossings he controlled train movements by pulling levers to operate signals and points. Sidney King was born in...

Railway Guard Though employed as a guard Bert once had to drive a train himself from Waterloo to Hounslow. Born in Petersfield in 1876, Albert married Florence née Switzer, the daughter of a heraldic...

Engine Driver in Feltham Marshalling Yard Born in Wateringbury near Maidstone in 1900, to Bertha Bristow and her husband Thomas, a brewer’s labourer. By the age of 20 Tom, as he was known, was worki...

AMBULANCE ASSISTANT AT RAILWAY WORKS Working at the Brighton Works assisting medical staff, later Annie became a nurse at a mental hospital Annie was one of at least nine children born to Esther Philc...