Thomas Oliver Baker, born in 1873 worked at Station Masters Office, Midland Railway. Baker's decendents suggest that prior to this he was a Lost Luggage Clerk at Long Eaton. Whilst working in Derby he lodged at Mrs Ransome's lodgings in Derby, his family home was in Stretton-under-Foss, Warwickshire. His father was a Gas Manager and his mother worked as a Trimming Maker. Baker was later transferred to Kettering, Northamptonshire, where he worked as a Ticket Collector. He married in 1897 and had two sons and a daughter. After working at Derby he went on to work as a Station Master at Henlow, Bedfordshire, he then moved to Yate in Gloucestershire where he also worked as a Station Master. He died in 1953.