Taken from Railway Company Staff magazines, these records are useful to family historians with railway employee ancestors, and wanting to find important occupation-related dates and add some social history to their family tree.

These records include such details as staff changes, promotions, pension records, retirements and obituaries. Often additional personal information is revealed in the magazines. In some cases you can read about gifts from co-workers given when rail staff leave.

For example, we can discover that the suitably named Mr A N Train had been a stationmaster at Whitdale and Sigglesthorne, stations that today have been converted into private houses, sitting on lines closed under Dr Beeching’s cuts in the 1960s. The railwayman’s details have been extracted from his obituary in the British Railways Magazine of November 1949 Vol 2 No 11. We can learn such useful details as his retirement date, as well as the date that Mr Train passed away at the age of 79. Just one click takes us to an image of the original page on which the record is based.