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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

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

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

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

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"

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Diary of a Week in North Wales By Henry Sharrock"

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

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

Volume entitled: "Arrete du Ministre des Travaux Publics portant reglement pour l'Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris"

Volume entitled: "Commander's Complete Book. H.M. Ship Queen, 116 [guns]"

'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

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

Arrangement and rack of Plan 25

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Division. Sheet 9 of 15.

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

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

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

Aquatinted illustration - View of the Railway across Chat Moss