South Yorkshire Times, January 5th, 1934
Retirement of Mr. C. E. Dagley
Formerly at Parkgate
Mr. Charles E. Dagley, stationmaster for the London Midland and Scottish Railway at Wombwell, is to retire this week-end and will take up residence at Great Malvern, Worcestershire where he has built a house for his own occupation. The esteem and goodwill felt toward him by the station staff will be expressed tomorrow, when he will be presented with a barometer as a retiring gift. Among those to pay tributes will be Mr. L. Woodward, for the clerical staff, Mr. Fred Smith for the permanent way workers, Mr. W Hastings, signalman and Mr. A. W. Douglas, sidings foreman.
Mr. Dagley entered the service of the Midland Railway at Cheltenham in 1890 and was a junior porter there and at Draycott, Derbyshire, and Great Malvern. In 1900 he was moved to Gloucester as a district relief porter and in that capacity served eleven years between Bristol and Birmingham. At the end of that time he was appointed stationmaster at Ryeford, near Stroud and in 1913 was transferred as stationmaster at Hyde junction, Cheshire, serving for fourteen years under the Midland and Great Central Joint Committee. In 1917 he was appointed stationmaster at Romily, Cheshire and in 1927 was transferred in a similar capacity to Parkgate.
In January 1931 he succeeded the late Mr. H. A. Field at Wombwell. Altogether he has been stationmaster at five different places. At Wombwell Mr. Dagley has made many friends and the efficiency and civility he has displayed in the performance of his duties has commended him to all.
Mrs. Dagley will be missed as a member of the Wombwell Parish Church. Mr. Dagley has a passion for gardening and will take it up as a hobby. They have many relatives at Great Malvern. His successor at Wombwell has not yet been appointed.