Doncaster Works Drawings and Registers

Made:: 1850-1968

maker:: Doncaster Locomotive Engineering Works; Great Northern Railway Co; London & North Eastern Railway Co; British Railways: North Eastern Region

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The material documents the locomotive production of Doncaster Works. The registers provide an overview of all the drawings produced by the drawing office, not all of the drawings have survived into the drawings part of the collection.

A full listing can be found on the National Railway Museum website under 'Drawing Lists' at https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/research-and-archive/further-resources/catalogues.

Details

Extent:: 778 boxes and 96 volumes

Identifier:: DON

Access:: Access is given in accordance with the NRM access policy. Material from this collection is available to researchers through Search Engine.

System of Arrangement:: The archive has arranged into the following series: DON/1 Main drawing register series (Inventory numbers 2000-7200 to 2000-7211) DON/2 Rough drawing register series (Inventory numbers 2000-7212 to 2000-7228) DON/3 Schedules i.e. lists of drawings for a distinct class of locomotive (Inventory numbers 2000-7229 to 2000-7286) DON/4 Miscellaneous lists, including carriage and wagon drawing registers (Inventory numbers 2000-7287 to 2000-7299) DON/5 Drawings (Inventory number 2000-7304) Each drawing has a letter code and a number. The letter code runs from 'A' through to 'Z' and each section covers a group of related locomotive parts. The contents of the letter-coded sections are detailed at the beginning of the drawings list. The drawings within each letter-coded section run in sequence from 1. There is a great variation in the size of the sections, some having only a few hundred drawings and some having more than a thousand. Some drawings have more than one part; a few drawings have over a hundred parts to them. The drawings are arranged in drawing order number within each alphabetically labelled section.

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