Jack Skinner

Jack Skinner is the Head Porter and Deputy Stationmaster.

He is deeply in love with his beautiful wife, May, but gets very jealous whenever she comes into close contact with other men, especially Cecil. He heartily dislikes Cecil and shows it. He is an ex-soldier with a limp, from a wound he received during the war (only we learn that his leg was wounded when he was thrown out of a pub and the landlord's wife slammed the door on his foot, not during a battle, although Ethel changed the story to him jumping on a Nazi tank to shove a land mine down it and a big Nazi trapped his foot).