Letter notifying the National Provident Institution that a Policy of Insurance issued by them to Cedric Valentine Godfrey had beren reassigned. In the letter Godfrey is described as “County Borough of Derby Midland Railway Police Superintendent”, although this title is manifestly inaccurate. Having been a Superintendent in the Derbyshire County Constabulary at Eckington in 1901, Godfrey did in fact serve as the Superintendent of Police for the Midland Railway (the post effectively being the chief officer of the Company’s police department). He left in 1908 to become Chief Constable of Salford City Police, a position he still occupied as late as 1939, though served as a Major in the 1st Lancs. Fusiliers during the First World War. He died in Salford in 1949. He was succeeded as Superintendent of the Midland Railway Police Department by Maj. Lincoln Sandwick J.P. [See also RFB12999].

Extract from Railway Magazine Vol. 85 No. 508 dated October 1939. Under the title ‘What the Railways are Doing’, photograph of Headstone Viaduct Monsal Dale, taken from the valley floor looking south east with the tunnel portal in view. Significantly, it shows the southern end of the viaduct being strengthened.

Talbot Street Midland Railway Parcel Receiving Office. J. Atkin Shop, Sheffield.

Harringworth Signal Box 1985

Edmondson ticket 8993 Ordinary 3rd class single Pontardawe to Swansea

Luggage Label Type: IM30/3 (Red X)
Form No: P.F.811. Print Ref: R-25,000-11/05.
Destination: (Blank)

S&DJR. Bridgewater station. A front ¾ view of Vulcan 0-4-4T No. 53 waiting at the platform with a train.

MR Birmingham and Bristol Line, Bridge No.44 near Defford, rebuilding as girder bridge. Plan view and croSS4-section of bridge.