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Sea to Sea Expresses, Liverpool, Grimsby, York and Hull

1914

GCR Victoria Station Sheffield

1919

rules of the pension fund of the great central ralway company

1905

Letter regarding a memorial in Sheffield, Great Central Railway

1921

England's Latest Port

1912

Director class "Butler Henderson", Great Central Railway

1920

Great Central Railway locomotive, number 102

1911

Great Central Railway and Other Railways in Connection

1910

Scarborough

A string of Pearls, The Gems of the Chiltern Hills

circa 1910

Step on at Grimsby for the Continent

1911

England's Greatest Poet

Letter regarding the unveiling of a war memorial

1922

Blackpool; For gorgeous sights

1920
Bell, Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway and Great Central Railway, no markings, with bracket, ex Dunford Bridge Halt Signal Box.

Bell, Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway and Great Central Railway

Carriage window glass, framed, etched, Great Central Railway.

Carriage window glass, Great Central Railway

Boundary post, Cheshire Lines Committee, cast iron, Great Central Railway pattern, lettered "C.L.Comee", about 1900 to 1948.

Cheshire Lines Committee boundary post

circa 1900-1947
Commemorative medallion, Great Central Railway, alloy, commemorating the opening of Nottingham Central Station on Queen Victoria's birthday, 24 May 1900, Dimensions: 45mm dia.

Medallion commemorating Nottingham Central Station opening, Great Central Railway

Notice. Great Central Railway. Notice! Immingham Dock Bye-Laws. Notice is hereby given that the Great Central Railway Company intend to apply to the Boark of Trade for the confirmation of certain Bye-Laws.....relating to the Loading of Coal and the Use of the Coal Hoists. 5 September 1911. Black text on white background. With note added by the Port Master, Grimsby Docks, concerning the posting of this notice in the neighbourhood of Immingham Dock. Printed by Carr & Forman, Printers, 88 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby.

Notice! Immingham Dock bye-laws

1911/09/05
Notice. Great Central railway. Platform Tickets. Black text on white background. Printed by Chas Sever, Printer, Manchester.

platform tickets

Great Central Railway and British Railways Eastern Region drawings and photographs of Keadby Lift Bridge and Trowse swing bridge, c1912-1970. 1. Plan and elevation of Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge over River Trent at Keadby for Great Central Railway, 25 April 1912; 2&3. Site survey and general arrangement of Trowse Swing Bridge and environs over River Wensum by Rendel, Palmer & Tritton, consulting engineers, no date; 4&5. Photographs of Trowse Swing Bridge, 12 items mounted on two sheets.

Drawings and photographs of Keadby Lift Bridge

1912-1970
Guidebook, Great Central Railway, 'Historical and Antiquarian Notes from Annesley to East Leake', by R A Wilde, 23 pages, soft cover, inscribed with signature of May Wilde. 8.4646 x 5.5118 in.

GCR - Historial and Antiquarian Notes from Annesley to East Leake

Guidebook, Great Central Railway, "A Short Description of Some of the Features of the Country", 1910, places along the line, 22 pages, soft cover. 9.0551 x 4.7244 in.

GCR - A Short Description of Some of the Features of the Country

1910
Guidebook, Great Central Railway, "A Short Description of Some of the Features of the Country", 1910, places along the line, 22 pages, soft cover. 9.0551 x 4.7244 in.

GCR - A Short Description of Some of the Features of the Country

1910
Appendix to working timetable, Great Central Railway Issue 5, 1 January 1908, 248 pages, paper covers, original colour buff, unbound.

Appendix to working timetable, Great Central Railway

1908
Appendix to working timetable, Great Central Railway, Issue 6, 1 October 1914, 235 pages, paper covers, original colour buff, black binding.

Appendix to working timetable, Great Central Railway

1914
Rule book, Great Central Railway, general, 1897, 344 pages, dark red cloth.

Great Central Railway Rule Book 1897

1897
Rule book, Great Central Railway, Rules and Regulations, 1912, 388 pages, blue hard cover, includes loose supplements dated 1913 and 1916.

Great Central Railway Rule Book 1912

Specification, Great Central Railway, Atlantic Type Locomotive 4-4-2, April 1905, 30 pages.

GCR 4-4-2 Specification

1905
Certificate, Great Central Railway to Edith Addison, special reward fund for merit in rescuing a passenger at Fairfield, 7th February 1916, first reward to female employee of GCR, colour printed in glazed frame, 516mm x 441mm.

Certificate to Edith Addison Great Central Railway

1916
Fare table, three copies, Great Central Railway, from Healing Station.

Great Central Railway fare table

Ticket, card, Great Central Railway, "Turn on Another Companies Line".

Turn on Another Companies Line

Handbill, Great Central Railway, 'Storeton, Heswall Hills, Neston and Oarkgate, Burton Point and Saughall', made at Stockport, 1906.

storeton, heswall hills, neston and oarkgate, Burton Point and Saughall

1906
Music programme from Great Central Railway opening of the extension to london railway. Dated 9th March 1899. With gold border.

opening of the extension to london railway

1899
Timetable cover, card, red with gold lettering, Great Central Railway, with the company logo.

Great central railway timetable cover

Album, Great Central Railway, illustrated official album.

Great Central Railway, illustrated official album

Paper notice, Great Central Railway, Rotherham Weekly Zone tickets, September 1920(Other IDs 83/44/31).

Great Central Railway

1920
Great Central Railway handbill advertising Sunday excursions. Return excursion tickets to Checker House, Retford, Leverton, Cottam and Torksey every Sunday, for 1/-. Dated July 1903 and signed by Sam Fay, general manager.

Great Central Railway handbill advertising Sunday excursions

1903
Notice. Great Central railway. Platform Tickets. Black text on white background. Printed by Chas Sever, Printer, Manchester.

platform tickets

Great Central Railway. Certificate of merit awarded to Ticket Collector W E Johnson for saving life at the risk of his own whilst in the performance of his duty on 12 November 1906. Printed by Henry Blacklock & Co. Ltd, Manchester. c300 x 230mm. (This certificate is believed to refer to an occasion when a man stumbled in front of the approaching Continental Boat express at either Worksop or in the Manchester area and was dragged clear by Ticket Collector Johnson).

Great Central Railway

1906
Handbill. Great Central Railway. Lincoln Spring Races - Through Express Trains to Lincoln from Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield, etc, 20-22 March 1911; Liverpool Spring races and Grand National Steeplechase - Special Express Trains from Lincoln (GN Station), 22 March 1911. Published (Marylebone Station) February 1911. Printed by "Globe" Printing and Bookbinding Works, Stockport. 164 x 315mm.

Handbill. Great Central Railway. Lincoln Spring Races - Through Express Trains to Lincoln from Wadsley Bridge

1911
Programme of excursions and cheap bookings during July, August & September 1903. Great Central Railway (GCR).

programme

Drawings and correspondence relating to engines of Wirral Railway Company; 3 drawings of Wirral Railway locomotives; correspondence between Eric G Barker Esq, C.E., Locomotive Superintendent, The Wirral Railway Company, Docks Station, Birkenhead, and Sam Rider, Secretary, Beyer Peacock & Co Ltd, Gorton Foundry, Manchester, re repairs to engines 1900-1903 [ 8 items]; correspondence between Eric G Barker Esq, C.E., Locomotive Superintendent, The Wirral Railway company, Docks Station, Birkenhead, and R Haig Brown, Great Central Railway, Office of Superintendent of the Line, Manchester re costs of re-railing an engine, 1899-1901, 4 items.

Drawings and correspondence relating to the Wirral Railway

1892-1903
Diagram of gradients and details of arrangements of opening of line, Gowdall to Braithwell, on Hull & Barnsley and Great Central Railways Joint Committee, 1 May [1916].

Line diagram, Hull & Barnsley and Great Central Railway

1916
Booklet of instructions, re signals on the Gowdall to Braithwaite Line, Hull & Barnsley & Great Central Railway, due to open on the 1st May 1916.

Hull & Barnsley & Great Central Railway

1916
Travel guide, Great Central Railway, describing features of interest along the new extension of the line from Annesley Junction, Nottingham to London.

Great Central Railway

1900-1923
Booklet, Memorial Roll of the staff of the Great Central Railway 1914-1918, names given by department and station. Endorsed: Mrs R White, Tams Valley, Dukinfield; Circular letter, March 1921, Sam Fay, Great Central Railway, General Managers Office Marylebone Station, London, to Mrs R White to check that details in accompanying Memorial Roll are correct; Circular letter, 1 August 1922, Sam Fay, Great Central Railway Company, General Managers Office Marylebone Station, London NW1, to Mrs R White, Dukinfield, sending tickets and instructions for unveiling of war memorial ar Sheffield on 9 August 1922; Programme, unveiling of Great Central Railway War Memorial at Sheffield on 9 August 1922; Programme, unveiling of Dukinfield War Memorial on 30 July 1922.

Memorial roll of the staff of the Great Central Railway 1914-1918

1921-1922
Guidebook, Great Central Railway, "America's Motherland", by T W D Smith, c. 1915, places to visit in Great Britain, cost new 1/- or 25 cents, 256 pages, hard cover.

America's Motherland

1915
Appendix to working timetable, Great Central Railway Issue 3, 1 November 1897, 214 pages, cloth covers, original colour red, black binding.

Appendix to working timetable, Great Central Railway

1897
Rule book, Great Central Railway, general, 1920, 416 pages, black hard cover.

Great Central Railway Rule Book 1920

1920