Skegness Railway Men 1926

By Angela Gooch on March 29th, 2008

This group photo of railway employees will prove of interest.
Depicted from left to right are:
Messers. W. Holderness (Boston), W. Raynor (Skegness), J. Wright (Firsby), W. Neal (Skegness) and F. Parrott (Skegness).

The most familiar figure to Skegnessians and district travellers by rail is probably Mr. Rayner, who has acted as ticket collector at Skegness Station for the past eight years, following nearly 19 years’ service as a passenger guard at Leicester.
Possessed of a cheery and obliging disposition, “Walter” is very popular with all classes of travellers, the majority of whom usually take the opportunity of “passing the time o’ day” when giving up their tickets or having them “punched”.
It would be interesting to know how many pieces of cardboard and the value they represent have been handled by Mr Raynor during his eight years’ service at Skegness.

Mr. Parrott has also acted as a ticket collector and in other capacities on the Skegness station for several years, and Mr. Neal has a long record of service as foreman in the goods department.

Messers Holderness and Wright, who have been at Skegness throughout the past season, have now retured to duty at Boston and Firsby respectively.