There are some other locations where the information was entered in separate books from 1880 onwards, but which no longer appear to exists. Locations that are missing (that we know of) are: Buxton, Millers Dale, Melton, Stamford, Peterborough, and Kentish Town.

Subsubseries within RAIL 491

Pieces without a sub-sub-series parent

RAIL 491/1041

From Peter Witts: These take the form of a very long list of employees in semi-alphabetical order (e.g. all the names beginning “Ha-” are together but not alphabetically within that group). The two books do not seem to have the same sequence of numbering, as it appears that the more recent of the two begins again at ‘1’.Very little information is given. Entries take the form of:-

NAME: followed by Pedigree Number. There is a column for other remarks, though in 90% of cases this is blank.

Any remarks usually take the form of a place-name (presumably the place where the individual was employed) and/or a reason for leaving (e.g. deceased, resigned etc). I imagine the “Pedigree Numbers” were at one time cross-referenced to actual employee files with much more information in them. Since these particular documents do not even carry any dates (not even an overall date range for the book as a whole) – or places in most cases – it is almost impossible to know whether the individual listed is really the person of interest. I suppose though that for someone with an extremely unusual name they would at least give an indication whether that person had in fact worked for the Midland!

Vaguely described as a "Pedigree Book" in the National Archives catalogue, but on the basis of the names listed it is evidently for Millhouses Shed (see also the following entry). Different to most District Staff Books in that it seems to contain mainly discipline matters.

Appears to cover all staff changes at Millhouses Shed from its opening to early BR days

This refers to the Works at Derby

This covers most of the Company but is limited to managerial, clerical and support grades - in other words, no footplate staff.

From Peter Witts: This is an extremely useful document with what appears to be a comprehensive list of all salaried staff as of 7th August 1914. It is easy to read as it is in typescript, well laid-out, as opposed to the usual handwritten records which are often less easy to decipher. It appears to be set out in “station order” (ending with St.Pancras, of course). Thus, one would need some idea of the name of the place where the individual was employed, otherwise it would be a long trawl.

Information is in the form:-

NAME OF STATION; followed by NAME, POSITION, SALARY

Footplate staff at Belle Vue and sub-sheds