Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors
Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway
Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites
Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish
Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'
Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping
Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick
Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.
Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road
Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"
Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage
Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"
Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'
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
Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"
Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico
Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match
Collection of documents relating to the work of Marc Isambard Brunel, mainly concerning the Thames Tunnel
Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar
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"
Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'
Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"
School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset
Diary of Robert Stephenson
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
Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway
Letter from Francis Mewburn, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton
Letter from Edward Pease to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees
Letter from (Charles?) Backhouse, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton
Note of those appointed to the Committee of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
Working Drawing for No 136 Locomotive
Handwritten summary of legal case against railway labourers laying the rails for the Clarence Railway across a road
Letter from Richard Otley, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton
A note covering the haulage charged on the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1828-1829 and extracts from the relevant General Meeting minutes
Notice entitled ‘Stockland & Auckland Canal. The subscribers to this undertaking are particularly requested to attend a meeting… for the purpose of receiving the accounts…’
Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother
Letter from Joseph Pease, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, London
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]’
Printed Clarence Railway report
Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother
Letter from D. Gardmen to unknown (presumably Hardwick) offering contract for gravel paths and suggesting a type of stove for the new station
Letter from Francis Mewburn, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck
Letter from Edward Pease, John Backhouse and William Kitching to Mr Randyle, Stockton
Letter from Stephen Salles to unknown (presumably Hardwick) offer to model Euston Station, rejected
Notice entitled ‘Canal. The projected canal from the Tees to the coal district near Auckland, having now become a popular question, permit me to make some observations on this subject’
Notice entitled ‘Stockton and Auckland Canal. The committee of the subscribers to this undertaking… received from Mr. Leather, the engineer, a variety of information relative to a survey, which he has just finished, which most satisfactorily obviates every important objection that has been urged against the plan…’
