| WHATSTANDWELL STATION STAFF OCTOBER 1859 TO MID-1866 |
| From |
To |
Name |
Comment |
| Station Masters |
| by 04.1857 |
c.03.1860 |
Robert Turner |
In White's directory of 1857. Wage 20/- per week in 10.1859. Increased to 22/-pw 06.03.1860. Resigned. |
| 03.04.1860 |
05.01.1864 |
Luke Fox |
From Pointsman Whatstandwell (see below). Wage 22/-pw. To Station Master Cudworth for Barnsley. |
| 05.01.1864 |
after mid-1866 |
S. Greenhough |
From Booking Clerk Ambergate. Wage 22/-pw. |
| |
| Pointsmen |
| by 10.1859 |
03.04.1860 |
Luke Fox |
Wage 16/-pw in 10.1859. To Station Master Whatstandwell (above). |
| 03.04.1860 |
02.10.1860 |
E. Holmes |
New entrant? Wage 16/-pw. To Station Master Southwell Junction (Rolleston Junction from 01.11.1860) at a wage of 22/-pw. |
| 05.03.1861 |
c.01.1862 |
J. Hobbs |
New entrant? Wage 17/-pw. Resigned. |
| 04.02.1862 |
15.11.1864 |
S. Hodgkinson |
New entrant? Wage 17/-pw. Increased to 18/-pw 31.05.1864. To Station Master Moira at Wage of 22/-pw less 2/-pw house rent (exchanged with William Pykett below). Believed to be Samuel Hodgkinson, who became the first Station Master at Wirksworth (1871 census shows him having children aged 5 and 3 born at Moira). |
| 15.11.1864 |
after mid-1866 |
William Pykett |
From Station Master Moira (exchanged with S. Hodgkinson above). Reduction in wage from 22/-pw less 2/-pw house rent to 18/-pw. Increased to 19/-pw 04.05.1866. |
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| Area reliefmen would have covered periods when posts were vacancies. |
There were only two employees during this period – the Station Master and a Pointsman. Pointsman is an early name for what became signalman, although at this time there was probably not the type of structure that became common-place in later years. The post – which probably covered a period of 12 hours – could well have also involved providing assistance in the shunting of goods traffic.