Director of The Bridgwater Railway.
Secretary of the Somerset Central Railway 1853-1862.
Secretary of the Dorset Central Railway 1856-1862.
Secretary of the S&D 1862-1872.
General Manager 1862-1875.
(Managing Director 1872-1874)
Secretary and General Manager to the Joint Committee 1875-1891.
Alfred Whitaker.
Resident Locomotive Superintendent at Highbridge between 1889
and 1911.
Inventor of the Whitaker Tablet Exchanging
Apparatus.
George Eyre.
Traffic Superintendent between 1902 and 1920.
OTHER STAFF AND PERSONALITIES
Left to Right:
Fireman Peter Smith.
Locomotive Inspector Lawrence Whitley.
Driver Donald Beale.
Shedmaster Harold Morris.
31-July-1962.
Left to Right:
Percy Savage and Harry Wiltshire
Signalmen at Midford
Mr. E.R, Jackson [right]
shed master at Highbridge Motive Power Department, points out to Driver J.H.
Foster features of the original crest of the Somerset and Dorset Joint
Railway which celebrated its centenary on August the 28th 1954.
As reported in the
‘Somerset Evening World’, a Bristol paper of
that era.
My thanks to Colin Jackson for the photo and
details.
