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3 plans of the Science Museum's Southern Galleries

1908-1912
Rushes / 08/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Including shots of the site internal plus external exhibits, and visitors, shunting King Feisal outside the collections building

MiniDV Rushes 'Locomotion, August 2005'

2005-07-31
Rushes / 08/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Including shots of the site internal and external exhibits and visitors shunting King Feisal outside the collections building

MiniDV Rushes 'Locomotion, August 2005'

2005-07-31
Filmed in June 2004

VHS videotape 'Royal mail terminal'

2004
Rushes / 10/10/2003 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Erecting the steelwork, the collections building

MiniDV Rushes 'Shildon, Locomotion construction, 3'

2003-10-09
Rushes / 18/09/2007 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Pressing the backend of Flying Scotsman's boiler at Pridhams boilermakers Tavistock, Devon, pressing the backend

MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman's boiler backend, 2'

2007-09-17
Rushes / 05/08/2004 / Approaching Scarborough, at the turntable, departing Scarborough

MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman'

2004-08-04
Rushes / 27/07/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Flying Scotsman at the Scarborough station turntable

MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman July 2005'

2005-07-26
02-05/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Working on crown stays (15/02/2005), burning inside smoke box (10/02), Inside boiler (02/03), Cylinder boring (12/04), Cylinder boring (18/05)

MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman 2004-2005'

2005-04-30
Rushes / 26/02/2009 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Interview with Dennis Hartley, WW2 (WWII; World War 2) wartime memories, working in movement control in the London docks, interviewed by Lynn Patrick

MiniDV 'Dennis Hartley 1'

2009-02-26
Tape 4A / 09/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / RETB Inverness rushes / Continuation of cab ride from Garve to Loch Carron

MiniDV 'RETB Inverness, 4A'

2006-08-31
Rushes / 31/08/2004 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Scarborough to York, window views, Flying Scotsman passes Howsham gates

MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman'

2004-08-30
Rushes / 19/07/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Scarborough station Class 58's, platform scenes, on train Alan Pegler, boys birthday party, shop York station

MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman to Scarborough'

2005-07-18
Tape 7A / 09/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / RETB Inverness rushes / Steve Muirhead interview, Inverness Signal box RETB

MiniDV ' RETB Inverness, 7A'

2006-08-31
Rushes / 26/02/2009 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Interview with Dennis Hartley, WW2 (WWII; World War 2) wartime memories, working in movement control in the London docks, interviewed by Lynn Patrick

MiniDV ' Dennis Hartley 2'

2009-02-26
Plaque, commemorating No 7 Radio School, Royal Air Force Signal Service, signed by Chester herald 8"x11"

Plaque, commemorating No 7 Radio School

194-
Framed and glazed coloured plan of Kensington Gore Estate of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, mounted with a printed description.

Coloured plan of Kensington Gore Estate of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851

1878
(1910). One framed and glazed coloured plan, mounted with printed description, of Kensington Gore Estate of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851.

(1910). One framed and glazed coloured plan

Letters private. Secretary's Office, Division of Science. Department of Science & Art [being the out-letterbook of Lyon Playfair as secretary to the division, covering period 1854 Jan to 1856 Dec. He was secretary of the science division from the Science & Art Department's creation in 1853 and of the united department from 1855 to 1858]

Letters private, Secretary's Office, Division of Science. Department of Science & Art

1854-1856
Oral history interview with Don Collins conducted and recorded by Tony Steadman on 22 January 2015 at the interviewee’s home. Duration: 34 minutes. How he started volunteering at NRM, interest in railways, involvement with Friends of NRM (FNRM); Information Points, managed by Clare Evans; started volunteering in 1995; career as civil servant, worked at Chilwell, moved to York; [00:05:00] volunteer recruitment interview with Clare Evans, social aspects of volunteering; knowledge of railways; training with visitor experience courses; [00:10:00] evacuation instruction; miniature railway; training with Richard Gibbon; diesel hydraulic power; [00:15:00] difficult to start engine; took over roster; top and tail with two locomotives and two crew; very flexible volunteers; [00:20:00] new layout needed more drivers; started in 2015; [break in recording] trained as a guard; passed stricter exams for guarding; [00:25:00] Volunteer Awards event at Christmas; relationship with explainers, not so much affinity now due to their change in role; [00:30:00] help from staff in early days; not so much now; 20 years a volunteer; change in ways volunteers are managed, supervised, now use team leaders [00:34:12] [end of interview]

Don Collins interviewed by Tony Steadman

2015-01-22
Oral history interview with John Charlesworth conducted and recorded by Tony Steadman on 24 February 2015, in the mess room of the Miniature Railway team at the National Railway Museum. Duration: 34 minutes. How he was introduced to railways; volunteering at Middleton Railway; member of the Friends of the National Railway Museum (FNRM), joined in 1977 on information points; rigidity of staff at museum; 1985 helped with work on Tuesday night restoring the Duchess of Hamilton locomotive (DOH); [00:05:00] career, worked on maintenance at power stations, hot riveting and air drills, lived in Selby; 1988 footplate ride on Green Arrow; support crew on DOH on main line; [00:10:00] miniature railway and working with public, Richard Gibbon, increased numbers, driver training for miniature railway, started charging, change, replacement of tracks; [00:15:00] miniature railway originally thought of as a toy, changed when charges came in; Deltic introduced on miniature railway, run round; 2014 rebuild; volunteer age differences; [00:20:00] recruitment of new drivers; outside examiners; everyone a driver; difficult passengers; [00:25:00] cataloguing with John Peck; drawing of accident; preparing standard gauge locomotives; fireman during day; [00:30:00] not so much to do at present, commenting on open spaces in Station Hall; believes there is potential for more volunteer involvement; enjoyed volunteering [ 00:34:14] [end of interview]

John Charlesworth interviewed by Tony Steadman

2015-02-24
Oral history interview with Gordon Reed conducted and recorded by Tony Steadman on 24 February 2015, in the mess room of the Miniature Railway team at the National Railway Museum. Duration: 39 minutes. Childhood, Northumberland, old LNER route, early interest in railway, family members working on railways, school; apprenticeship as boiler smith, at Darlington Works 1948; engines built at Darlington works, comparison with Doncaster works; interview for apprenticeship, starting as trade apprenticeship in boiler shop; what was a premium apprenticeship, better education; work as apprentice in boiler shop [00:06:30] National Service, Royal Engineers, railway operated squadron, unit boiler smith; end of National Service, family in Bishop Auckland, 1956, getting a job in a steam shed, people no longer interested to work with steam engines; at age 25 became boiler examiner; meeting future wife, her railway family background [00:10:00] 1960s end of steam, Dr Beeching, closure of railway line through Bishop Auckland, impact on shed, 1964 closure of the steam shed, transfer to depot in Dinsdale, became relayer, then rail welding; explaining relaying work;1965, Leeds district welding inspector; how staff was treated by the railways, different railway staff statuses, high risk and low risk jobs, difference in grades and salaries; life in Leeds, West Riding district, job as district welding inspector; work culture; [00:16:00] 1975 Chief Welding Inspector, York BR Headquarter, until mid 1980s; 1987, starting volunteering at the National Railway Museum, talk with Richard Gibbon, installing permanent way exhibition in Great Hall; volunteering in NRM workshop with John Peck, supervised by Richard Gibbon; joining workshop team, staff and volunteers; differences between boiler exam and boiler inspection; work on O4, 1 day a week volunteering, staying over night in camping coach, change for guest house; emotions of being back in a firebox; [00:21:00] colleague who repaired snow plough at Locomotion; health and safety conditions at beginning of volunteering; relationship with Helen Ashby; presence of security staff at museum; trips with V2; Flying Scotsman boiler work, Scarborough Flyer trips out, footplate days; [00:25:35] Working with Ms Parkinson; Flying Scotsman riveting work, with Charlie Bird, nameplate; challenges around Flying Scotsman repairs; meeting people tanks to volunteering; receiving volunteer award for repairs on City of Truro, Railfest 2012, details of repairs done on boiler with female assistant, trial runs; [00:32:00] West Auckland train, reference to Snowdrift at Bleath Gill British Transport Films; details of job on BR in 1990 before retirement; volunteering one day a week, then fortnightly; [00:34:15] Difference between volunteering front of house or in workshops; current workshop work; ongoing restauration of Flying Scotsman; also volunteering on Keighley and Worth Valley Railway at Haworth [00:38:43] [end of interview]

Gordon Reed interviewed by Tony Steadman

2015-02-24
2022 transfer of NSMM Historic Public Records to NSMM Corporate Archive under the Public Records Act. As a public body SMG has a statutory obligation to permanently preserve its historic public records and make them accessible to the public. These files have been selected for permanent preservation as historic public records. As a Place of Deposit under the Public Records Act, the NSMM Archive can accept the organisation’s own public records. The process of transferring the permanent records to Archives will mean that the files become part of the SMG Archive collections, as formally accessioned items. It consists of 430 corporate files, relating to the NSMM site. The corporate files are listed in spreadsheets available for loading into ADLIB.

2022 transfer of NSMM Historic Public Records to NSMM Corporate Archive under the Public Records Act

Starts with 1 minute of recent footage of Diesel train, outside NRM (possibly exit rail near turntable), than telecined footage probably amateur, various provenances: Siloth station, Carlisle station with Coronation Scot, Blue Pullman, harbour with "Queen Elizabeth Liverpool" ship, then railway footage / Colour, amateur footage are silent, recent footage with sound / Approximately 5 minutes

MiniDV 'Diesel train + Various telecined amateur footage'

25/08/2011 / In the REB and Signal box

Master MiniDV 'Stirling Middle Signal box'

2011-08-25
25/08/2011 / Inside the box and the signals from platforms

Master MiniDV 'Stirling Middle Signal box'

2011-08-25
11/06/2003 / Clydeport wagon loading station Hunterston, loading EWS coal train, Shildon built hoppers with coal

Master MiniDV 'Coal, Hunterston loading station'

2003-06-11
Rushes / 20-25/07/2005 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Arriving York station (20/07/2005), Towthorpe road, Haxby (21/07/2005), Engine prep National Railway Museum (25/07/2005)

Master MiniDV Rushes 'Flying Scotsman'

2005
Rushes / 30/05/2003 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Flat crossing ECML/Lincoln, Notthingham, HSTs 225's, Class 66, Also canal scenes with narrow boats

Master MiniDV Rushes 'Newark flat crossing'

2003-05-30
29/05/2004 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Railfest celebrations NRM, including Flying Scotsman homecoming

Master MiniDV 'Railfest'

2004-05-29
31/01/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Craigentinny depot, Edinburgh

Master MiniDV 'GNER Craigentinny depot'

2006-01-31
20/02/2004 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Windfarm at Wainstalls, Halifax

Master MiniDV 'Windfarm'

2004-02-20
08/09/2006 / Tape 2 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Eric Manley, former fitter at Crewe works, with Bob Meanley of Vintage trains, Interviewed at his home in Crewe

Master MiniDV 'Interview with Eric Manley, 2'

2006-09-08
11/01/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / GNER 225 Heaton depot near Newcastle, refuelling, cleaning, restocking bar; cab shots around Newcastle bridges from Class 67 Thunderbird

Master MiniDV 'GNER at Heaton depot'

2006-01-11
01/08/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Railway nursery Poppleton, York, final open night

Master MiniDV 'Railway nursery Poppleton'

2006-08-01
23/08/2006, 05/09/2006, 22/09/2006, 10/10/2006

Master MiniDV 'Search engine, 2

2006-08-23
Rushes / 22/02/2006 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Flying Scotsman boiler at Rileys of Bury

Master MiniDV 'Flying Scotsman boiler repair'

2006-02-22
Rushes / Tape 1 / 02-04/2003 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Interior and exterior of Welcome, exterior of Hackworth plus goods work on car park (14/02/2003), Progress on car park and Welcome (14/03/2003), Progress on car park and Welcome interior and exterior (08/04/2003)

Master MiniDV 'Shildon Locomotion construction-1'

2003
Rushes / Tape 3 / 08-09/2003 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Preparing the ground for construction of the collections building (15/08/2003), Progress on the foundations of the collections building (12/09/2003)

Master MiniDV 'Shildon Locomotion construction-3'

2009
This is likely the introdution video (start of visit) used for display at Locomotion when it first opened in 2004

MiniDV digital videotape 'Locomotion'

Video recording by Chris Hogg for the National Railway Museum, Oban, Scotland

MiniDV digital videotape 'Oban scenics'

14/07/2004 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Loading at carriage works siding

Master MiniDV ' Deltic to Locomotion'

2004-07-14
15/07/2004 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / On the A1 at Scotch corner, entering Shildon town, into Locomotion

Master MiniDV 'Deltic to Locomotion, 2'

2004-07-15
1980s adverts for Sealink ferries. With Claire Francis MBE

DVD-R 'Copy of Sealink Advert'

1982-1984
Duration 00:00:22

DVD-R 'Bombay Railway Trailer BBC4 '

Tape 5

MiniDV digital videotape 'ECML Newcastle - Edinburgh'

Video recording of National Railway Museum at Waterloo station

DVD-R 'NRM at Waterloo'

Video recording of events that took place at NRM in 2007

DVCAM digital videotape 'CBJWT Yorkshire Wheel, A day out with Thomas'

2007
Video for bid to the National Heritage lottery fund for Shildon Locomotion project

DVCAM digital videotape 'Shildon lottery bid

Video recording of Railfest marketing award

DVD-R 'Railfest marketing award'