LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Rugby to Leamington
LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth
LMS Route: Rugby to Leicester
LMS Route: Rugby to Market Harborough

Rugby Station: lnwrrm3906

Convalescing Railway Workers pose for the camera at Herne Bay Railway Convalescent Home on 27th February 1959. Robert Gosling, Ken's father, is in the second row fourth from the right. The Convalescent Home in Herne Bay provided a fortnight's rest and change for convalescent railwaymen absolutely free of charge. The Herne Bay Convalescent Home was the first of ten homes to be opened by the Railway Industry for railway workers; the idea of John Edwards Nichols, cashier of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, who saw the need for a home where railwayworkers could go to rest and recover from sickness and ill-health.

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