THE LNER RAILWAY POLICE (1923 - 1948)
The LNER was formed from:
Great Eastern Railway
Great Central Railway
Great Northern Railway
Great North of Scotland Railway
Hull and Barnsley Railway
North British Railway
North Eastern Railways
The North Eastern Railway was the largest and most successful of the constituent companies. All of these companies had Railway Police Forces. The LNER Police was one of the largest Police Forces in the Country. It had its Headquarters at York. It had three Areas, North-Eastern, Scottish and Southern, each split into Divisions headed by a Superintendent.
NORTH EASTERN AREA (Headquarters at Newcastle)
Northern Division
Newcastle (Divisional HQ)
Sunderland
West Hartlepool
Southern Division
York (Divisional Headquarters)
Darlington
Middlesbrough
Leeds
Eastern Division
Hull (Divisional HQ)
SCOTTISH AREA (Headquarters at Edinburgh)
Scottish Division
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Dundee
Dunfirmline
SOUTHERN AREA (Headquarters at Wellers Court, Pancras Road, London NW1.)
London Division
Kings Cross (Divisional HQ)
Farringdon Street
Marylebone
Liverpool Street
Bishopsgate
Stratford
Sheffield Division
Sheffield (Divisional HQ)
Manchester
Bradford
Nottingham
Leicester
Grimsby Division
Grimsby (Divisional HQ)
Grimsby Docks
Doncaster
Peterborough
Cambridge Division
Cambridge (Divisonal HQ)
Ipswich
Norwich
Parkeston Quay