Nancy, Probably the Great Western Railway.  The staff records for this company  are quite good and are at the Public Records Office at Kew. My own ggfathers' record was found. He was at Dursley and first joined the LMS [London Midland & Scottish] He subsequently moved to the GWR. This was over the period 1869-1904. ----- Original Message ---- From: Nancy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 2 November, 2008 1:05:38 PM Subject: Re: [GLS] Railway workers was Moving to the cities Hi, I have two great grandfathers in Stroud/Painswick area who changed from Ag. Labourers to Plate Layers on the railway. One by 1871, the other by 1881 They continued with this work until they were too old. Would anyone know which railway they would have worked for at this time? Nancy Australia _____________________________________________ Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details?  Other researchers will then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message