LADIES WAITING ROOM ATTENDANT Rose was born to Caroline and Henry Harris, a shepherd near Wanborough, Guildford in 1872, one of at least eight children. She married Richard Cresswell (or Creswell) a r...

Superintendent of the UK’s first Railwaymen’s Convalescent Home born around 1850 d 1935, Florence Jessie Dolby was born in Kensington to John and Jessie Dolby. She was a woman of independent means...

Hove station will host students from SupaJam specialist music college on Wednesday 30th April 2025 for a charity musical feast celebrating Autism Appreciation Month. Station staff along with the stude...

Memories of Robertsbridge Station and the London to Hastings line. My parents moved to Brightling at the beginning of 1946.   In the early days my father commuted by train from Etchingham to his off...

A recollection by Linda Neve   My grandfather Joseph Weston joined the company in the 1900s as a plate layer at Etchingham and was there as the ganger. In his gang there was also my uncle Ernest ...

SOUTHERN RAILWAY GENERAL MANAGER Son of James T. Missenden New Cross, London in 1886-d. Rudgwick, Horsham 1973 Son of a station master, he began working life as a junior railway clerk. He married Lili...

JAMES THOMAS MISSENDEN STATION MASTER Bletchley 1862-d. Southborough 1947 NB PRESIDENT OF THE (RAILWAYMEN’S) ‘UNDAUNTED CRICKET CLUB’ The son of a Bletchley labourer, James worked on the railway...

BUFFALO BILL – WILD WEST SHOW TRANSPORTATION BY RAIL AN ENORMOUS PRODUCTION OF CAST, LIVESTOCK AND EQUIPMENT When Buffalo Bill’s touring Wild West extravaganza visited England in August 1903, ...

RAILWAY BUILDER, WORLDWIDE Buerton, Chester 1805 d. St Leonards, East Sussex 1870 “During a 40 railway building career he built one third of UK railways, three quarters of railways in France. 1 in 2...