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Worthington Archive

A Short and Sure Guide to Railway Speculation

Pamphlet on J. Gray’s patented improvements in steam engines

The Manchester Ship Canal

Map of the York & North Midland Railway

Map showing intended route of the Manchester Ship Canal

Rainfall Register

Drawing of wooden viaduct at Newcastle

Items from the Worthington family archive

Printed booklet on the Menai Suspension Bridge by Thomas Telford

Manchester Ship Canal Company preliminary prospectus

“Our Holiday August 1877” notebook

Railways as They Really Are — Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

The Hunt’s Bank Scheme

Worthington, William Barton (1854-1939), railway civil engineer

Minutes of conferences between David Lloyd George and railway company representatives

Pamphlet containing a speech on rail roads by James Morrison MP

East Lothian Railway

Railway Chronicle Travelling Chart — London to Basingstoke, Winchester and Southampton

Manchester Ship Canal estimated expenditure report

Manchester Ship Canal Company report and circular

Manchester Ship Canal Company share application form

Rainfall records

‘Travelling by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, 1836’ timetable

Plan of a proposed line of iron railway from Kelso to Berwick

Railway Chronicle Travelling Charts

Grand Junction Railway, Wolverhampton contract — Schedule of prices

Plan of proposed railways from Edinburgh and Leith to the Mid and East Lothian coalfields

Report by John Rennie on the proposed railway from Kelso to Berwick

Railway Chronicle Travelling Chart — London to Reading, Didcot and Oxford

Railway Chronicle Travelling Chart — London to Richmond

Partial specification for railway works

Howard’s Vade Mecum; or, Tourist’s Companion from Manchester to Liverpool and the Isle of Man

Speed of Railways: The Narrow Gauge Faster Than the Broad Gauge

Printed pamphlet – Dialogues of the Gauges

Pamphlet – The Areas Covered by Intense and Widespread Falls of Rain by John Glasspoole

Railway Chronicle Travelling Chart — London to Wolverton

Prospectus for Eastern Union Railway extension from Ipswich to Norwich

Report of a survey for the East Lothian Railway by Robert Stevenson

Railway Chronicle Travelling Chart — London to Woking and Guildford

Map of improved railway routes between England and Scotland

Railway Chronicle Travelling Chart — London to Brighton

Proposed railway to connect the Clydesdale with the City of Glasgow

Clauses from Acts relating to the Huddersfield Canal

List of books on railways from Bernard Quaritch

General papers and collected documents

Photograph of Lune Bridge

Copy letter from W. B. Buddicom to Joseph Locke

Handwritten notes by W. B. Worthington on a copy letter from W. B. Buddicom to Joseph Locke

Handwritten notes on Joseph Locke’s laminated timber arched bridges