A typical career progression would see a porter advance to become a head porter, then a ticket collector or booking clerk, which could in turn lead to the senior roles of assistant station master or station master.
22.
Pierce and Agar travelled to Folkestone to watch the delivery of the luggage, and make their plans, and attracted the suspicion of the police and the railway authorities with their observation of the booking clerks and the luggage porters.
23.
The post of station master at Levisham was combined with that at Goathland and in 1926 a new brick built booking office was built adjacent to the signal box ( replacing facilities in the station house ) allowing the signalman to double as booking clerk.
24.
When the bombs exploded, the booking clerk from whom the men had purchased tickets informed police that a man with an Irish accent, dressed in a dust-covered purple suit, had purchased a ticket to travel to the coastal village of Heysham, en route to Belfast.
25.
They were Mr William Fox, Station Master ( previously Station Master, Epsom Downs ); William Bell, Assistant Telegraph and Booking Clerk ( previously Trainee Signal Clerk at Brighton ); Joseph Moore, Porter ( previously a Gatekeeper at Lewes ) and Charles Farr was the Gatekeeper and Signalman.
26.
Muhammad, 41, who is facing capital murder charges for the murder of a man as he pumped gas at a Manassas gas station, refused police efforts to interview him in Prince William County, remaining silent for hours and refusing to give his name to a booking clerk.
27.
His place was taken by Francis W Baker, appointed as Station Master on 5 April 1897 moving to Falmer on 17 May 1899 . Next Edward Vickery, Booking Clerk at Haywards Heath gained promotion as Station Master arriving on 17 May 1899 and leaving to take up the same post at Rotherfield on 24 May 1901.
28.
He and Pierce then met in Folkestone where Pierce took advantage of the absence of the booking clerks from the office to simply walk in, and take the safe key from the cupboard which had been left with its key in the lock and hand it to Agar, who made a wax impression, then returned it to where he had found it.
