The LNER Encyclopedia

Hi - I am new to this forum but a long time LNER afficianado. I have just acquired a Brass L.N.E pay check and am interested to find out more about it - it is stamped SG 132. Any one got any insights?

Andrew

Wow - a tricky one, Andrew. Pay checks would only have been used at the larger locations, where there was a time office to which staff would go at the start of their turn of duty to collect their check from the time clerk and then they would go back at the end of the shift to hand it in. From this ancient ritual, which didn't die out until the 1980s, your pay would be calculated. At smaller places staff just turned up, and perhaps signed a time book, possibly with no one in attendance, such as happened, for example, at Temple Mills Yard. SG - could it be a goods depot of some size somewhere on the LNER system beginning with S? Or Shop G at a works? Like I say, tricky!

SG - Possibly South Gosforth, the L.N.E.R. third rail electric car sheds still in use today by the Tyne & Wear Metro

http://www.thetrams.co.uk/tyneandwear/s ... orth_depot

Could well be, redtoon, certaintly the place would have been big enough and many motive power depots had pay checks for staff, too.