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Description: | Original photograph has a newspaper cutting attached: - Sheffield Telegraph 24-12-1924 Mr Sid Troutt Retires Mr. Sid Troutt, one of the best-known men in this district on the Midland Railway is retiring after upwards of 47 years service. He has reached the age of 64 years and would probably have remained with the company a few months longer, but he has been off duty since April owing to ill-health, and much to the regret of his many friends - comrades on the line and members of the public - he has decided to retire now. Mr. Troutt started on the Midland in 1877 at Clay Cross, as a number taker. Later he became a signalman at Ripley and at Little Eaton he was appointed second class relief signalman. In 1891 he was advanced to the post of first class relief signalman on the superintendent staff at Derby, and was called upon to go to various parts of the system. While at Swansea Vale, covering the 18 miles of line from Swansea to Brynammon, he took on - in addition to his ordinary duties - extra work in connection with engineering operations. He also helped to control the line during the making of the Dore and Chinley and the Chapeltown lines, and the widening of the track from Dore and Totley and Chesterfield to Cudworth and also the alterations and enlarging of Sheffield passenger station. Mr. Troutt rose gradually in the service and eventually became assistant controller in the Sheffield Area. (Mr Troutt is the man in the photograph wearing the PILOTMAN armband) | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ |
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Subjects: | Sheffield | Source: | Sheffield Images | Creator: | Picture Sheffield Administrator | Identifier: | http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend... | Go to resource |
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