1900's railway occupations help needed

[duckweed]

My guess is that he was marrying without parental consent. If he was not iving with his relatives. The same address implies that he was marrying out of his parish and so gave his brides address. 

[Redroger]

Usual promotional progression on the railway would be as follows: 1) Starting grade Porter, or labourer etc. 2) Shunter 3) Freight Guard 4) If available Passenger Guard. Further promotion wopuld be into a salaried grade job as Station or Yard Inspector, and then possibly Station Master.

A person could and sometimes was demoted as part of a discipline process, so it is possible a person could be in a higher graded job in 1901 than in 1904. What is not usually possible is for a man to move from this line of promotion to a footplate job, and certainly impossible in this era if he was over 25.

[wookietoo]

ok, many thanks.
This branch of my family were a right bunch of ne'erdowells, so demotion is a distinct possibility 

The latest birth cert that arrived today is even more mystifying, as he is a munitions worker in 1917......

[Redroger]

I believe that a shunter was a protected job, immune from call up, so he obviously wasn't a shunter in WW1. Had he left the railway or called up into the munitions industry, obviously he was not fit for military service for some reason

[meles]

He might have been working on the railways moving munitions in the ammunition factory.

meles