Miscellaneous printed material relating to John Alan Broughall’s railway electrical engineering career

This file contains newspaper clippings, journal articles, reprinted papers, conference material and promotional publications relating to railway electrification, engineering developments, and the professional activities and public profile of John Alan Broughall.

Newspaper clippings cover subjects including the funeral of Sir Guy Calthrop, Coal Controller; an eight‑page East Essex Gazette supplement on railway electrification; the opening of the electric line from Manchester Piccadilly to Crewe; the withdrawal of the suburban electric service in Glasgow following an explosion in the guard’s compartment of a “Blue Train” at Renton; electric train faults; and the unveiling of the Advanced Passenger Train (APT) at Derby.

Journal articles and extracts include material from The Electric Journal (1955); The Scottish Electrical Engineer (1956), including an article by Broughall on railway electrification; Engineering (1956); Electrical Review (1960–1962); The Railway Gazette (1961), including a professional biography of Broughall; and Modern Transport and International Railway Journal (1961), including articles by Broughall on the progress of electrification in Great Britain.

Reprints and conference material include three reprinted articles by Sir Harold Hartley on instrument technology in control engineering and on energy developments in the United Kingdom (1958–1960); five British Railways Electrification Conference supplements to The Railway Gazette (1960); and a paper by Broughall on A.C. railway electrification at 50 c/s in Great Britain, presented at a symposium on 4 July 1962 and published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Brochures and promotional publications include British Railways Modernisation: Crewe–Manchester Electrification (c.1960), published by British Railways (London Midland Region); Change at Crewe (September 1960), published by the London Midland Region of British Railways; and Glasgow Electric: The Story of Scotland’s New Electric Railway by George Blake (November 1960), published by British Railways, Scotland.