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RAILWAY EMPLOYEES 1889-1940 with QFHSdatasearch Version 1.5.

An index to approximately 370,000 entries of Queensland Railway Employees published in the Queensland Government Gazette from 1889 to 1940. The CD includes three smaller indexes to other Railway employee information, scanned images of all source pages and scanned images of Railway Regulations and Acts from the same period. Searching the indexes by name, year and other details is made easy using the popular searching and sorting capabilities of our very own developed QFHSdatasearch interface. Features include field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting, wildcard searches and, when applicable, links to the images held in pdf files of the source records. This CD is an excellent resource for researching Queensland railway families and railway history and includes many records not previously published on microfiche.

Highlights of the main index: Covers the entire career of many railway employees; also gives the name, age (from 1899), position, branch/office, and railway/division for each Queensland Railway employee at 30th day of June each year. Also available in the Gazette source images: Rates of pay and qualifications (where applicable). The minor resources index Queensland Railway Appointments and Removals 1890; Dismissals 1879, Ipswich and Rockhampton Railway Workshops, and the Classification List for Loco Enginemen, Firemen and Cleaners 1912. View images of the Railway Acts and Regulations in Acrobat Reader (free and downloadable) and piece together an overall picture of employees' lives.