Mentmore Road Crossing Cottage October 2008

The following people were recorded on the 1851 census as living in Linslade and having jobs connected with the railways - clearly other railway employees on this stretch of line would have lived elsewhere but these figures show the impact of the railway on Linslade.

Bossington Corner

• John Faulkner, 37, platelayer on the railway, Finmere [Buckinghamshire]

Church Road

• John Abbott, 37, engine driver, Haddock [Lancashire]
• Robert Mason, 18, railway labourer, Guildford [Surrey], "visitor"

Cow Lane, Railway Lodge

• John Wilkinson, 61, railway police and Chelsea Pensioner, Ticknell [Derbyshire]

New Road

• James Hadley, 28, overlooker of railway, Warwick;
• Henry Coombs, 29, railway guard, Devizes [Wiltshire]
• John Charnock, 32, engine driver, West Derby [Lancashire]
• Shadrach Biggs, 41, railway guard, not stated

Old Road

• George Barham, 31, railway porter, Hogston [Buckinghamshire]
• Thomas Akers, 33, railway labourer, Woolstone [Buckinghamshire]
• Henry Marsham, 31, railway labourer, Harrow [Middlesex]
• William Paulson, 40, railway labourer, Canfield [Essex]
• John Coulson, 54, railway labourer, Addington [Buckinghamshire]
• Thomas Mead, 27, railway labourer, Stewkley [Buckinghamshire]
• John Deacon, 30, railway labourer, Watford [Hertfordshire]
• Thomas Claridge, 19, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• Thomas Quick, 30, railway policeman, Leighton Buzzard

Railway Clerk's House

• Robert Miller, 40, Master, Royal Navy half pay, Agent to London & North Western Railway Company, Bermuda
• Agnes S.J.Miller, 25, assistant, Jersey

Railway Cottages

• Jonathan Mason, 30, railway clerk, Papplewick [Nottinghamshire]
• Benjamin Orchard, 48, railway police officer, Chideoak [Dorset]
• Charles Orchard, 16, platelayer on the railway, Chideoak
• Richard Robberts, 26, railway porter, Chalgrave
• Robert Mason, 38, railway police, Poppleton [Yorkshire]
• Joseph Mills, 28, railway police, Cosham [Hampshire]
• Stephen James, 32, railway porter, Eggington
• Harriet James, 28, railway porter, St.Albans [Hertfordshire]
• William Hudson, 44, railway police, Chobham [Surrey]
• John Freame, 33, railway police, Farthinghoe [Northamptonshire]

Railway Lodge, Wing Road

• William Potter, 54, railway policeman and Greenwich pensioner, Wednesbury [Staffordshire]

Soulbury Road

• Charles Tooth, 25, railway porter, Castlethorpe [Buckinghamshire]
• Joseph Chandler, 32, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• James Whist, 27, railway police officer, Guildford [Surrey]
• William Read, 30, railway porter, Linslade
• Thomas Lineham, 29, engine driver, Haversham [Buckinghamshire]
• Edward Cheshire, 28, railway labourer, Stewkley
• Henry Cowley, 24, railway labourer, Castlethorpe
• Henry Trewitt, 36, railway police, Chiselhurst [Kent]
• Henry Hunt, 21, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• William Fowler, 46, railway labourer, Bow Brickhill [Buckinghamshire] "visitor"
• Job Joiner, 35, railway labourer, Chesham [Buckinghamshire] "visitor"
• William Wolfe, 40, railway labourer, Hillmorton [Warwickshire] "visitor"
• Joseph Darvill, 28, railway labourer, Great Missenden [Buckinghamshire] "visitor"
• William Backner, 30, railway labourer, Harridge [Buckinghamshire] "visitor"

Southcott

• William Cock, 38, railway labourer, Linslade
• John Jelley, 37, railway labourer, Bow Brickhill [Buckinghamshire]
• Richard Stone, 32, railway porter, Chalfont Saint Peter [Buckinghamshire]

Wing Road

• Robert Wingfield, 50, railway labourer, Watford [Hertfordshire]
• Benjamin Truelove, 26, fireman on the railway, Newport Pagnell [Buckinghamshire]
• Ambrose Holloway, 33, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• William Honour, 24, railway labourer, Linslade
• William Gardner, 27, railway porter, Leighton Buzzard  

Total: 52
22 labourers (6 visitors)
10 policemen
8 porters
3 engine drivers
2 guards
2 platelayers
1 agent
1 agent's assistant
1 clerk
1 firemen
1 overlooker