Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) . . .

Rule 94 : All the Servants of the Company, are to place sand or gravel upon the rails, when they perceive, or hear that an Engine is slipping.

Rule 161 : Not any contractor, officer, servant, or other person in the employ of the company, or in the service of any contractor, is to use any wearing apparel of a red or pink colour, as it might be the means of causing enginemen and others to think it was a signal of danger.

Rule 241 : It is strictly forbidden that any Officer or Servant shall at any time interfere in the least with matters of a political nature.

Rule 277 : All persons, especially those in uniform, are to keep their hair cut . . . .

Rule 284: In the morning think what thou hast to do; and at night ask thy self what thou hast done.

Rule 311: Persons having passes are to ride in the forth wagon from the last of the train, and at all times in a sitting position upon the bottom of the wagon.

Rule 380: Not any person, except the proper Engineman and Fireman, is allowed to ride on the Engine, or Tender, without the special permission of the General Superintendent.

Rule 428 : No person can become a Station Master . . . . unless he is married.

Rule 1,595 : Whenever a rail is found entirely out of its joint chair, the foreman of the length will at once be dismissed, and each of his men fined six days' wages.

The rules and regulations also stipulated that all members of the staff must salute the officers and directors, that any person presenting himself for his wages before the proper time, or otherwise misbehaving himself at the paydesk, would have his money held back until the next pay-day.

No gang of men must include two of the same surname and as Mr. D. S. M. Barrie comments in his book, The Taff Vale Railway [006], it is a rather difficult proposition in the land of the Joneses, Thomases, Evans and Morgans etc!. The Rule Book concluded, somewhat optimistically, with a speed table enabling staff to calculate speeds up to 100 m.p.h. . .