Driver's notebook of Percy Swinson of Colwick Shed

Notebook, paper with card covers, Driver's notebook of Percy Swinson of Colwick Shed, entries made 1930s to 1948. Contains manuscript entries of timings and mileages of various stations from Colwick and over various other LNER routes, lists of stations and boxes on various routes, extracts from rulebooks including the 1942 appendix, signal diagrams, notes on injectors, tractive effort, list of key dates in WWII, etc. Driver Swinson apparently prepared several such notebooks and passed them to other drivers at Colwick shed. This example passed to his son, W. Swinson, a fitter at Colwick, who made some minor additions.

Details

Category:
Archive Collections
Object Number:
2009-7115
Materials:
paper (fibre product) and cardboard
Measurements:
overall: 160 mm x 105 mm
type:
notebook
credit:
J. Swinson