Bucks Row - Great Eastern Railway Yard

[Elamarna]

Ed seems to have backtracked a wee bit, now acknowledging that the railway policeman might have been making his rounds, which negates his earlier observations about Paul and Lechmere callously blowing past this sentry.

What we see in the 1873-1874 map kindly posted by Rob Clack is a weighing machine on either side of the entry, with a small hut or office in between.

Presumably this hut would have been for the scale master who weighed the loads coming in and again going out, and recorded the weights and assessed the appropriate fees, etc.

Do we really have any good reason to associate this hut with a constable for the railway?

I suspect he would have some sort of Base RJ, and the guys as good as any.
However, I seriously think he would be out most of the time checking and patrolling the extensive goods yard.

Steve

[Geddy2112]

I suspect he would have some sort of Base RJ, and the guys as good as any.
However, I seriously think he would be out most of the time checking and patrolling the extensive goods yard.

Steve

Thank you, is there anyway to possibly ascertain his duties from old records or how long this patrol may or may not have taken. I know it's an extreme long shot but I thought I'd ask.
I just think if there was a 'patrol gate/post/sentry type box' there and these fellas walked past six days a week they would have know there was a chance at any given time a PC would have been there making murdering someone so close very risky.

[rjpalmer]

Thank you, is there anyway to possibly ascertain his duties from old records or how long this patrol may or may not have taken. I know it's an extreme long shot but I thought I'd ask.
I just think if there was a 'patrol gate/post/sentry type box' there and these fellas walked past six days a week they would have know there was a chance at any given time a PC would have been there making murdering someone so close very risky.

I've seen an account of a Railway PC posted in a sentry box at the gate, but it dates to 1905 and described daylight hours when people were going in and out of the depot. Funnily enough, the PC himself was caught stealing from the depot and stashing the goods in his box.

[Geddy2112]

I've seen an account of a Railway PC posted in a sentry box at the gate, but it dates to 1905 and described daylight hours when people were going in and out of the depot. Funnily enough, the PC himself was caught stealing from the depot and stashing the goods in his box.

Did he steal a bloody knife with the letters CAL engraved on the handle? Let's pass that rumour around, should not let the truth get in the way of a good rumour.