I was at the National Archives yesterday looking at the records for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. Considering how much paperwork, ledgers etc must have been produced since it started in the 1840s until it was absorbed into the Southern Railways in the early 1920s, it really is quite depressing what is actually held at Kew...
Here's the link to the reseach guide The National Archives | The Catalogue | Research Guides If you scroll down you will see what's held for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway... which really isn't much.
I was hoping to find the staff records of my great x3 grandfather who died as the station master of Henfield, and also for his son who went on to be in charge of (possibly) Brixton station. But there was nothing about them.
I did find out that my great great grandfather left the locomotive works in Brighton in Feb 1872, which has set up another mystery, and also confirmed that his brother worked there too...
But... are these really the few records which have survived, or are they held elsewhere?? I don't feel willing to give up just this yet... !!
Here's the link to the reseach guide The National Archives | The Catalogue | Research Guides If you scroll down you will see what's held for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway... which really isn't much.
I was hoping to find the staff records of my great x3 grandfather who died as the station master of Henfield, and also for his son who went on to be in charge of (possibly) Brixton station. But there was nothing about them.
I did find out that my great great grandfather left the locomotive works in Brighton in Feb 1872, which has set up another mystery, and also confirmed that his brother worked there too...
But... are these really the few records which have survived, or are they held elsewhere?? I don't feel willing to give up just this yet... !!
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