The collection includes: Manchester & Birmingham Railway share certificate (MS0335); file of photographs and prints compiled by C. F. Dendy Marshall relating to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway; engravings and prints of Liverpool & Manchester Railway scenes by T. T. Bury and R. Ackermann; aquatint of Liverpool & Manchester Railway at Newton by R. Havell; photographic portraits and prints of Victorian railway engineers compiled by C. F. Dendy Marshall; engraving of Rainhill Bridge by Isaac Shaw; albumen photographic prints of Neilson & Co locomotives by John Stuart & Co (MS0127/2); albumen photographic prints of Sharp Stewart & Co locomotives by James Mudd (MS0127/2).