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Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road

Letter from Henry Booth, company secretary and treasurer of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to James Loch, Bloomsbury Square, London with a report on the survey of Chat Moss by Thomas Shaw Brandreth

School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

'Sketch of the carriages on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway'

Plan of the proposed route of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by George Stephenson

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Liverpool Engine C drawing

Manchester Guardian newspaper, first edition. Dated May 5 1821.

Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing ground floor plan of the principal building, by signed Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Catalogue of Useful Inventions for Cotton Spinners, Manufacturers and for all textile trades

Letter from George Stephenson, Liverpool to Timothy Hackworth, New Shildon

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Aquatinted illustration - Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

Small Garnskirk (sic) locomotive drawing

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

"Planet" type frame drawing

Passport

Working Drawing for No 124 Locomotive

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

Aquatinted illustration - View of the Railway across Chat Moss

Working Drawing for No 136 Locomotive

Letter from Joseph Pease, Railway Office to Timothy Hackworth

Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Lithograph of Lime Street railway station, Liverpool

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

Aquatinted illustration - Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing elevation of side entrance, elevation from inside, elevation of front entrance, elevation from inside, section, plan of hinge, elevation of sash detail, elevation of cast iron sash and detail at full size, signed P. Le Court Grissell and Peto.

Letter from George Stephenson to T. Brewin

Pamphlet entitled ‘A Further Report on the Intended Rail or Tram Road, from Stockton, by Darlington, to the collieries, with a branch to Yarum [sic]’

Small printed card showing ‘Distances of the Collieries, by the Railway, from Stockton [and] from Darlington’

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 2 no. 17

Letter from George Stephenson and Thomas Storey to Joseph Pease Jr

Lithograph of Planet locomotive