Plan of the station area [X410/19]

The following people were recorded on the 1861 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.

Church Road

• Thomas Mead, 29, railway labourer, Stewkley [Buckinghamshire]
• Daniel Foster, 15, railway labourer, Linslade
• Edward Street, 33, railway inspector, Derby
• [name obliterated by a blot] Steel, 33, railway engineer, Tarporley [Cheshire]
• Thomas Dryden, 32, railway clerk, Regents Park [Middlesex]

Back Road/Church Road

• Thomas Searle, 40, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• Thomas Searle, 14, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• Henry Coombs, 39, railway guard, Devizes [Wiltshire]
• Henry J.F.Coombs, 17, assistant clerk locomotive department, Lambeth [Surrey]

Linslade Road [Leighton Road?]

• John Mead, 43, railway labourer, Stewkley [Buckinghamshire]
• Richard Wootten, 35, railway policeman, Reading [Berkshire]
• Henry Tooms, 26, railway policeman, Watford [Hertfordshire]
• Charles Reading, 19, railway platelayer, Coleshill [Warwickshire]
• William Prat [?], 22, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard

Ledburn Road

• Samuel Brown, 25, railway policeman, Overstone [Northamptonshire]
• John Cardiss, 31, railway platelayer, Staveley [Westmoreland]

New Road

• James Hadley, 38, railway contractor, Coleshill [Buckinghamshire]
• James Williams, 36, railway police officer, Staffordshire
• Henry Garnet, 35, railway engine driver, Wolverton [Buckinghamshire]
• Standing D.Penfold, 30, railway porter, Petworth [Sussex]
• George Jeffrey, 36, railway office porter, Sussex
• Daniel Ross, 39, railway engine driver, Edinburgh [Scotland]
• John Shelton, 36, railway porter, Hockliffe

Old Road, Chelsea

• John Scott, 36, railway labourer, Linslade
• William Faulkner, 15, railway labourer, Willington
• John Seebrook, 27, railway labourer, Slapton [Buckinghamshire]
• William Pullen, 52, railway labourer, Brighton [Sussex]
• William Pullen, 16, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• Charles Cook, 23, railway engine stoker, Tilsworth
• Henry Marnham, 41, railway ballast guard, Arrow [Middlesex]
• Robert Marshall, 29, railway porter, Scotland
• Edward Tuckey, 35, labourer on railway, Brackley [Northamptonshire]
• John Adams, 33, railway labourer, Linslade
• John King, 32, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• George Friars, 47, railway labourer, Woolwich [Kent]
• James Friars, 16, railway labourer, Linslade
• George Wilaton [?], 27, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• Charles Parrott, 25, railway platelayer, Linslade
• John Dimock, 24, railway platelayer, Eggington
• John Cook, 26, railway engine driver, Linslade
• Joseph Spencer, 52, late railway porter, Woodford [Northamptonshire]

Railway Lodge, Wing Road

• William Walker, 44, railway policeman, Leighton Buzzard

Soulbury Road

• William Bambrook, 27, railway engine driver, Wolverton [Buckinghamshire]
• Joseph Chandler, 42, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• Joseph Green, 11, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• John Rogers, 25, railway engine stoker, Edge Hill [Lancashire]
• Joseph Johnson, 33, railway labourer, Sandon [Leicestershire]
• William Stewart, 36, railway platelayer, Potterspury [Northamptonshire]

Southcott

• Mathew Mead, 29, railway contractor, Stewkley [Buckinghamshire]
• John Jelly, 47, railway labourer, Bow Brickhill [Buckinghamshire]
• John Carter, 48, railway labourer, Linslade
• James Carter, 15, railway labourer, Linslade
• John Heaton, 21, railway labourer, Linslade
• John Tack, 52, railway labourer, not known
• Ambrose Holland, 49, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• James Cox, 45, railway platelayer, Wingrave [Buckinghamshire]
• John Alderman, 29, railway labourer, Winslow [Buckinghamshire]

Station Goods Yard

• Robert Tutman, 43, railway police inspector, Newton-on-Ouse [Yorkshire]
• William Gardener, 37, railway ticket collector, Leighton Buzzard
• Richard Roberts, 36, railway porter, Tebworth
• James Morris, 22, goods clerk, Madras [India]
• Joseph Short, 27, railway police constable, Ivinghoe [Buckinghamshire]
• Joseph Woodford, 39, railway guard, West Haddon [Northamptonshire]
• Thomas Meakin, 23, railway policeman, Coventry [Warwickshire]
• William Basil, 30, railway police constable, "Herts Friesding" [Frithesden, Buckinghamshire?]
• Eldred E.North, 18, railway clerk, Stewkley [Buckinghamshire]

Wing Road

• John Jarrett, 40, railway station master, Worcestershire
• John H.Miller, 26, railway engine driver, Aylesbury [Buckinghamshire]
• Frederick Shortland, 27, railway locomotive fireman, Stoke Hammond [Buckinghamshire]
• George Hall, 16, engine cleaner, Newton Blossomville [Buckinghamshire]
• William Clements, 34, railway porter, Great Brickhill [Buckinghamshire]
• Able Seabrook, 20, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• Michael Mayers, 26, railway labourer, Ireland
• Edward Chesshire, 36, railway engine driver, Stewkley [Buckinghamshire]
• John Swain, 34, railway labourer, Leighton Buzzard
• Jonas Barratt, 33, railway engine driver, Hull [Yorkshire]
• Charles Fosbrook, 30, railway engine driver, Manchester [Lancashire]
• Robert Wingfield, 56, railway labourer, Watford [Hertfordshire]  

Total: 78
31 labourers
9 policemen
8 engine drivers
7 porters (1 retired)
6 platelayers
4 clerks
3 guards
2 contractors
2 stokers
1 engine cleaner
1 engineer
1 fireman
1 inspector
1 station master
1 ticket collector