Employment on the Railways in East Kent, 1841–1914

It may be thought that the Victorian railway companies at least knew how many staff they employed, but to judge from the records left by the South Eastern and the London Chatham and Dover it must have been a grey area even at the time. Other possible sources of information on staff numbers - census...

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Published in:Journal of transport history 2000-03, Vol.21 (1), p.54-72
Main Author: Andrews, Frank W. G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communications
transports
civil engineering
History of science and technology
Railways
Technology
Transports
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Summary:It may be thought that the Victorian railway companies at least knew how many staff they employed, but to judge from the records left by the South Eastern and the London Chatham and Dover it must have been a grey area even at the time. Other possible sources of information on staff numbers - census enumerators' returns, etc. - often only add to the confusion, which in the case of east Kent is compounded by the railway works at Ashford and the sea services of Dover and Folkestone, all of which employed staff whose job descriptions do not suggest that they were railway employees. This article throws a little light on a dark corner of railway history. (Original abstract)
ISSN:0022-5266
1759-3999
DOI:10.7227/TJTH.21.1.4