His father was Charles Mynett, a longtime employee of Kynoch Limited, which in the late 1890s had built the explosive works and associated village then known as Kynochtown (later Coryton Refinery after the 1920s).
[2] By the time Mynett began working on the line, the CLR no longer had conductors on its trains (the only rolling stock on which this was possible had gone out of use in the 1910s).
It is recorded that the ticket stock and takings were kept in his pocket, and the money in 'an old blue handkerchief tied in a knot'[3] Enthusiasts only began visiting the CLR in the large numbers in the postwar years, and Mynett features in many photographs taken during this period After Mobil purchased the oil refinery in 1950, the passenger services were discontinued two years later.
Because information on many aspects of the history of the CLR is either scant or absent, the recollections of people such as Mynett are of significance to the historical record.
An example of this is that whilst the rather sketchily-known 'toastrack' type coaches which worked on the line in its formative years always appear in photographs without protection from the elements, Mynett recalled from travelling in them as a child that they had latterly been fitted with curtains.