Employment at Shandon Station

Dear blog reader

Here is a ‘two for the price of one’ blog post about people employed at Shandon station.

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DEVON VALLEY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 1902

DOLLAR NEWS

Mr Thomas A Lyon, of the Parcel Office Department, Glasgow, has been appointed stationmaster at Shandon. Mr Lyon, who is a native of Dollar, entered the service of the company in 1886, and for the last ten years has been in the parcel office at Queen Street where he is extremely popular.

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FIFE FREE PRESS AND KIRKCALDY GUARDIAN, SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 1925

STRATHMIGLO

NEW STATIONMASTER

Mr Andrew W Craig has been appointed stationmaster at Strathmiglo in succession to Mr Robert Shaw, retired.

Mr Craig, like his predecessor, is a Colonial, being a native of Winnipeg, has been transferred from Shandon, on the Garelochhead section of the LNER. He entered the service of the North British Railway Co, at Maryhill, Glasgow, in 1904. Gavell (now Twechar) was Mr Craig’s next post, and from there he was transferred to Kilsyth New in the capacity of clerk. From there Mr Craig was promoted chief clerk at Clydebank Central, and later Staff Department clerk in the District Superintendent’s office in Glasgow, Shandon being his last post as a stationmaster.