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Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

Account of the construction of the Morley Tunnel, Leeds Dewsbury & Manchester Railway

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

Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

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"

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Archives relating to Engines used by Thomas Redfern

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

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

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Liverpool Engine C drawing

The general plan of Mr. Babbage's Great Calculating Engine. Arrangement and rack, details, et cetera.

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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

Plan of the Analytical Engine without lettering.

Aquatinted illustration - Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Great Western Railway – Drawing No 2 Side elevation and Cross Section

Arrangement and rack of Plan 25

Division. Sheet 9 of 15.

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Diary of Alfred Kitching

Small Garnskirk (sic) locomotive drawing

"Planet" type frame drawing

Passport

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing end elevation. Side elevation and ground plan of the proposed engine house exterior. Annotated with a description of the type of doors and windows to be included

Working Drawing for No 124 Locomotive

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

Rough notes and sketches, including drawings of Babbage's game 'Tit Tat Toe'.

Working Drawing for No 136 Locomotive

Aquatinted illustration - View of the Railway across Chat Moss

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.