Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — A Railway Servant’s Record. [ARTICLE]

A Railway Servant’s Record.

The record of William Lister, who has just retired from the service of the London and Northwestern Railway company, is a remarkable one. He was the guard on the first train which ran between Bolton and Manchester, and remembers Leeds and Liverpool without railway stations. When he first went on duty thirdclass carriages had no roof, and the guard was perched in a little dickey, where he was not infrequently frozen to death in bad weather. For more than half a century Mr. Lister has served the company at Bolton.