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Letter from Sir John Barton to "Commissioners appointed to consider the means of preventing the Forgeries of the Notes of the Bank of England"

Booklet entitled: "Aerial Navigation being the inaugural address"

Broadside entitled: "The Dangers and Positions of the Pitmen"

Calculation of the strength of the Richmond marine boiler

Engineering drawing: Plunging pump as used at the Thames Tunnel

H. Maudslay and Company specification for wind operated pumps

Plan of Newhaven

Arrangement drawings of ship "Brisk"

Advertisement: Wm. Annesley's New System of Naval Architecture 1819

Documents relating to an article on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in the Edinburgh Review, October 1832

The Champion of Politics, Literature and the Arts

An x-ray of Lord Rayleigh's hand

Alfred Swaine Taylor's admission card as a pupil to Guy's & St Thomas's Hospitals

Photograph printed onto a large board showing cars in operation around a bend on the Never-Stop Railway

'Reid’s Monthly Timetable and Advertiser of The York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway'

'Journal of the London Association of Engineers' includes article ‘The Story of the Locomotive’ by H. Parsons

Drawing of "Planet" type with grasshopper springs on inside bearings

Working Drawing of a Locomotive Engine for the Stanhope Railway, No 37

Tender Frames

Working Drawing No 323

Mohawk and Hudson locomotive, plan of frame

Drawing of No 58 (or the 4th Patent) locomotive, for the Leicester and Swannington Railway

Plan of route of railways from Edinburgh and Leith to Mid- and East Lothian, by Robert Stevenson, engineer, ink and colour

Report by Robert Stevenson, civil engineer, on railway lines from Midlothian to Edinburgh and Leith, with plans, sections and detailing possible extensions to Dalkeith, Musselburgh, Haddington and Dunbar

Newspaper cutting from L. M. H. S. Magazine Jul. 1826 (written in ink) entitled “Some Early Railway Tickets”, brief history of the origins of the railway ticket

Several sections of the ground surveyed for Edinburgh railways, ink and colour

Plan ‘no 2’ of Manchester Ship Canal from Runcorn to Warburton. Ink and colour

Railway Signal Volume 8 (1890)

Railway Signal Volume 17 (1899)

Railway Signal Volume 15 (1897)

Railway Signal Volume 14 (1896)

Railway Signal Volume 11 (1893)

Railway Signal Volume 13 (1895)

Railway Signal Volume 7 (1889)

Central London Railway, Nottinghill Gate Station

Translation of a Report on Cerro de Pasco and Santa Rosa Mines

Letter from John Enys to Francis Trevithick Regarding a Bet on Richard Trevithick’s Locomotive Engine

Statement of Account of Thomas R. Crampton Esq of Leeds & Carlisle Railway to G. Scott

Drawing of [Russia 0-6-0T 5' 0" Gauge 620G Water Capacity 40 Cubic Feet Fuel Capacity Tank Engine]

Drawing of 4' 9" Between Wheels Engine

Drawing of 0-4-0 4' 9" Between Wheels Crane Tank General Arrangement

Drawing of 0-6-0 Engine General Arrangement

Drawing of 6 Wheel 5'3" Between Tyres Tender

Drawing of 2-6-0 Engine General Arrangement

Drawing of 6 Wheel 5'3" Between Tyres Tender

0-6-2 Locomotive

Drawing of Western Australian Railway 8 Wheel 2000G Water Capacity 160 Cubic Feet Fuel Capacity Tender

Drawing of 4-6-0 Donegal State Railway 3' 0" Gauge 2' 9 1/4" Between Wheels Locomotive General Arrangement

Drawing of 5'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement 2050 ???

Drawing of Livornesi Railway 4' 8 1/2" Gauge Locomotive