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Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Diary of Robert Stephenson

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

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

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

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

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

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"

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

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

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

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')"

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

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

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports

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]"

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"

Books of signatures of visitors to the works of Sharp, Roberts & Co.

Bound volume entitled: "Watch, Quarter & Station Bill of H.M.S. Britannia"

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Liverpool Engine C drawing

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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

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.

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Division. Sheet 9 of 15.

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

Diary of Alfred Kitching