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Two mounted photographs of Hackworth's Safety Spring Valve (Front and Side Elevation) as originally used in 'Royal George' locomotive

Photograph of Stockton and Darlington Railway 'No 1' Locomotive standing on display plinth

Photographs of 'old chain rails' from the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Print of 'Titan' Locomotive, possibly from drawing

Print of Novelty Locomotive in black and white

Printed drawing of locomotive passenger Engine 'Sanspareil' manufactured by Timothy Hackworth Soho Works, Shildon, Darlington from the Practical Mechanic Journal parts 25,26,27 and 29 for April, May, June and August, 1850 Drawing Printed by Currie, Mackay & Kirkwood

Copies of two photographs of Hackworth's 'Samson' locomotive, 1838, sent to Nova Scotia in 1839, first locomotive in British North America

Mounted blueprint of 'Magnet' locomotive

Postcards showing Shildon Church and surroundings

Postcard showing ‘old second class railway carriage’

Timetables/guides

Pamphlets

Material accumulated by several members of the Hackworth family or unidentified

Journal and magazine articles/extracts

Newspapers

Printed material

Likenesses/silhouettes of Timothy Hackworth Sr, Jane Hackworth (nee Golightly) and Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Letter from John Wesley Hackworth, Darlington to Messrs Stephens, Mawson & Goss, Newport, Monmouthshire

Letter from John Wesley Hackworth, London to Albert Hackworth

Memoriam card

Letter from John Tindall, Shrewsbury to Miss Hackworth [it is not known which family member this refers to]

Memoriam card

Article from 'The Yorkshire Post' entitled ‘The Steam Rail Locomotive. Its origin and development’ by J.G.H. Warren M.I.Mech.E

Various articles from 'The Gazette' [a Canadian paper] by John Loye

Liverpool and Manchester centenary lectures given at Picton Hall, William Brown Street ‘The Rainhill Trails of 1829’ by Dendy Marshall and ‘Two hundred years of steam power on land and sea’ by Captain Edgar C. Smith

'The Liverpool & Manchester Railway Centenary Celebrations at Liverpool September 13th to 20th 1930'

'Reid’s Monthly Timetable and Advertiser of The York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway'

'Official Guide Leeds and District Tramway Car Routes', published by the Corporation of Leeds, includes descriptions of areas around Leeds

'Memento of Shildon Horticultural, Industrial, Agricultural and Live Stock Society Jubilee Show'

'The Brixtonian'

'Auckland & County Chronicle’

‘The Northern Echo’

'The Auckland Chronicle'

‘Evening Dispatch’

‘Northern Echo’

Article entitled 'The Legislative Council, Penang’s New Member’ [Robert Young]

Article from 'The Engineer' entitled ‘The Locomotive Magnet as Reconstructed: Timothy Hackworth, Shildon and Soho, Engineer

Article from 'Darlington and Richmond Herald' entitled ‘The Railway Jubilee, speeches by Mr Henry Pease and Mr J.W. Pease'

Article from 'Engineering' entitled ‘Memorial to Timothy Hackworth'

Article from 'Railway Age' entitled ‘The old locomotive ‘Samson’’

Article from Railway & Locomotive Historical Society' entitled ‘Old Colony Railroad: the account of the opening taken from the ‘Boston Advertiser’

'The Engineer’

'The Northern Echo'

‘The Northern Echo’ No. 1,785

Article from ‘The Echo’

Article from 'Northern Daily Express' entitled 'Sketches for the People: Men From the Ranks No. 2- George Stephenson Chap VI.'

'The Newcastle Daily Chronicle'

'Darlington and Stockton Times/Ripon and Richmond Chronicle’

‘Darlington and Richmond Herald’

'The Northern Echo'