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GWR internal publications

Station Accountancy books

Clerical staff, either in the station ticket office or a goods office, were expected to possess a good all-round knowledge of the various procedures and regulations to be followed when accounting for traffic carried by the railway.

Station Accounts Instruction Book

These hard back books were approximately 6½" x 9¾" in size. The 1911 edition contained 149 pages and was printed by Butler & Tanner at the Selwood Printing Works in Frome, with the 200 page edition of 1929 by Harrison & Sons Ltd., Printers in Ordinary to His Majesty, St. Martin's Lane, W.C.2. Our 1911 edition contains loose supplements numbered 1 to 11, dated 1st January 1912 to 1st January 1922, and an un-numbered one dated 19th June 1922. We have two copies of the 1929 edition, one stamped Goods Department G.W.R., Tipton Basin, 19 Feb 1929 with attached supplements numbered 1 to 6, dated June 1930 to 1st January 1939, the second is stamped Spring Road G.W.R. and contains the same supplements loose. Tipton Basin was at the end of a short branch from the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway and Spring Road station is just south of Birmingham near Tyseley.

1911 edition
1911 title page
Supplements Jan 1912 to June 1922
1929 edition
Supplements June 1930 to Jan 1939

Questions and Answers

A small book with a long title 'Questions and Answers arising out of the System of Goods, Parcels, and Passenger Account Keeping at G.W.R. Stations' was first published in 1920 in order to supplement classes of instruction and provide a better insight into the work of the accounts section of the Goods and Traffic departments. These hard back books were all about 4¼" x 6¾" in size and initially contained 160 pages, but they grew slowly to reach 190 pages by the 1936 edition. The first edition was noted as being printed by Wiliam Brendon and Son, Ltd. of Plymouth, but the printer was not noted in subsequent ones.

1st edition, January 1920
1920 title page
2nd edition, September 1923
3rd edition, February 1928
4th edition, January 1936