Description:On a platform at Stafford Station, Mr James Harrison (left) Stafford’s new Stationmaster, receives a welcoming handshake from Inspector C Waltho, who is accompanied by Mr T H Holm, a relief Stationmaster from Crewe.
Mr Harrison was Stationmaster at Matlock for the previous five years. He started his railway career at his native town of Ulverston, he was then at Chapeltown and his other stations were Kent’s Bank, Grange-over-Sands and Coniston. In the First World War he served in the Welsh Guards. Whilst in Mattock he was on the National Health Advisory Committee and the local Road Safety Committee. He was an expert on beekeeping and judged the honey each year at the Matlock Young Farmers Show. Mr Harrison succeeds Mr Frederick Wynne who after five years as Stationmaster at Stafford was promoted to work at Willesden Junction, London.
This photograph was published in the Staffordshire Newsletter on Saturday 8 November 1952. Reproduced by kind permission of the Staffordshire Newsletter who retain copyright.