Railway Porter.....

cocobelle · Post by **cocobelle** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:26 pm

Hi,

At some stage my g grandfather was a railway porter in Glasgow. Any ideas how I could find out any info on when he started, who he worked for etc.

As I live in N Ireland I'm a bit out of my depth here !!

Thanks, Angela

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:28 am

Hi Angela

Since you didn't give dates to pin things down a bit I have the web address for Scotland's railway history.
http://www.railscot.co.uk/

If it was the 1850's there were lots of smaller railway companies into and around Glasgow/Lanarkshire/Renfrewshire. They all were merged eventually so if you have an address for your g-grandfather from a census it would help narrow down the list of possible companies.
Bet you never thought you'd be studying railway history when you started out on this genealogy quest did you?

Russell