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 Maria Core, the Matron of the Railway Servant’s Orphanage
on Oriental Road, Woking. It was home to about 120 children whose railway worker fathers had been injured or killed.
Railway fireman and shunter Graham Perrin raised money for the Home by selling Locomotive pin badges in his spare time.
He was born in 1941 and married Jean in 1964. Their daughter Michelle tells us that the family lived in the railway houses on
Waterloo Crescent and Southern Avenue for many years. He was a fireman first on steam engines, as a teenager, and when they
were taken out of circulation he went to Feltham as a shunter. Later he worked at the station itself for many years.”
Feltham resident Matthew Savage remembers “those locomotive pin badges being sold to raise money for the Woking Children’s
Home at a kiosk just besides the ticket barrier at the top of the platform bridge”.
Graham died in 2009, he was 67.
