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===Former Early Booking Porters and Station Masters at Eardington===The first description of ‘Station Master’ in GWR records is in 1879. It seems likely that where no station mastersmaster is shown. then the booking porter supervised the station. From 1949 Eardington was supervised from Bridgnorth. {| class="wikitable |-!Name!!Born !! data-sort-type="date" | From !! data-sort-type="date" | To !! Comments|-| John George Cooke was Brecknell ||1845 Abberley, Warwickshire || data-sort-value="20/5/1868" | May 1868||data-sort-value="4/8/1879" | August 1879|| Booking porter when the station opened in 1868 and may have supervised the station, the census of 1871 describing him as Station Master. Previously employed at Bridgnorth.|-|Stephen Floyd||1852 Tackley, Oxfordshire|| data-sort-value="4/8/1879" | August 1879||data-sort-value="1/8/1883" | January 1883||Station Master|-|William Sherwood||15 November 1846 Bidford, Warwickshire|| data-sort-value="1/1/1883" | January 1883||data-sort-value="1/1/1887" | January 1887||Booking Porter. Previously employed at [[Hartlebury]] on the branch, amongst other stations. Later Station Master in cat [[Hampton Loade]] and [[Berrington]].|-|Henry Powell||1836 Ombersley, Worcestershire|| data-sort-value="1/1/1887" | January 1887|| data-sort-value="1/6/1887" | June 1887|| Booking Porter. 1910<ref>SVR Souvenir GuideServed his entire railway career on the Severn Valley Branch, pand censuses 1871 and 1881 record him as station master at [[Highley]].31<|-|William George Cleeton||1859 Broseley, Shropshire|| data-sort-value="5/5/1890" | May 1890||data-sort-value="24/8/ref>1891" |August 1891||Booking Porter, then Station Inspector, Census of 1891 records Station Master.Employed at Coalport, Buidwas and Bridgnorth before Eardington, and later Station Master at Hampton Loade and Berrington|-|George Walter Cooke||1865 Eardington, Shropshire|| data-sort-value="24/8/1891" | August 1891||data-sort-value="1/4/1930" | April 1930|| Station Master|-|Edward Morris Casey||1874 Abergavenny|| data-sort-value="1/4/1930" | April 1930||data-sort-value="1/3/1931" | March 1931|| Station Master|-|}
==Historic maps of Eardington Station==
== References ==
*[http://www.railchronology.free-online.co.uk/EARDINGTON%20summary.htm Rail Chronology, Eardington station] (Retrieved 20 September 2023). Richard Maund and Allan Brackenbury's research, an earlier version of which appeared in Railway & Canal Historical Society Railway Chronology Group Co-ordinating Newsletter no. 49, January 2007.
*Early Booking Porters and Station Masters at Eardington information from Chris Haynes' research of GWR records and public records.
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