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Great Eastern Railway cheap excursions

1888

Great Eastern Hotels

circa 1890s

GER: To the Continent by the Harwich Steamer

1914

GER: The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway

1910

Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

1919

Great Eastern Railway menu card

1912

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

1903-1911

Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

1922

Royal Wedding - Departure from Liverpool Street Station of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York

1893

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1907

1907

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

1903

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

1909

Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

circa 1864-circa 1875

Parkeston Quay Harwich

1912

Harlow Garden Village

portrait of charles hubbard

Yarmouth South Town bench

1862-1922

St Pauls Cathedral divine service

1919

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910

Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

1905

Telegraph Block Instrument, Great Eastern Railway, 2-position absolute block type, sending and receiving with tapper and combined gong.

Telegraph Block Instrument

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle and secondary spectacle, two glasses cracked, crossing gate signal, lower quadrant, Great Eastern Railway, made by EC & JK Ltd.

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle and secondary spectacle

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle, green glass missing, crossing gate signal, lower quadrant, Great Eastern Railway, made by Saxby & Farmer, London.

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle

Plate, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, white glaze with black geometric pattern around rim with pink lining, marked at centre garter ‘Engineers Saloon’ enclosing ‘GER’, by Royal Crown Derby.

Plate, GER Engineer's Saloon

Plate, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, white glaze with black geometric pattern around rim with pink lining, marked at centre garter, 'Engineer's Saloon' enclosing 'GER', by Royal Crown Derby.

Plate, GER Engineer's Saloon

Model steam locomotive, scale 1:8, Great Eastern Railway 4-4-0 passenger express No. 1900 "Claud Hamilton", prototype built 1900, model built 1900 by George Perry, Erecting Shop foreman at Stratford Works, awarded Gold Medal at Paris exhibition in 1900.

Model of steam locomotive "Claud Hamilton"

1900

Notice. Great Eastern Railway. National Co-Operative Festival, Temperance Fete (and other London attractions). Excursion tickets will be issued from Yarmouth (South Town) to London (Liverpool Street) on Saturdays 11 and 18 July 1903. Black text on yellow background. Printed at the Company's Works, Stratford. Stuck to card. Losses to bottom centre. Format: double crown. Dimensions: 30 x 20 inches, 762 x 508mm

national co-operative festival

1903

Staff notice. Great Eastern Railway. It is essential for the welfare of the nation that the railways should be maintained in an efficient manner, and be prepared to meet any military demends which may be placed upon them. This cannot be done if the Staff is seriously depleted and.....it is requested that in future anyone in the service of the Company wishing to enlist will first ascertain from his departmental office whether he can be spared from his railway duties. September 1914. Black text on white background. Printed at the Company's Works, Stratford.

welfare of the nation

1914/09

Platform bench, Great Eastern Railway, monogram on bench ends, cast by Warner, London, 1900-1910.

Platform Bench, Great Eastern Railway

1900-1910

Headboard, Great Eastern Railway, cast iron, royal coat-of-arms.

Royal coat-of-arms headboard, Great Eastern Railway

1862-1923

Reprinted Eastern Union and Eastern Counties Railways poster from June 1st 1848. Reprinted by the Great Eastern Railway at the company works, in 1898. The poster gives details of trains traveling between London, Bury, Ipswich, Hadleigh, Colchester and the Hadleigh branch of the Eastern Union Railway.

Reprinted EU & ECR poster

1898

Model steam locomotive, scale 1:8, Great Eastern Railway 4-4-0 passenger express No. 1900 "Claud Hamilton", prototype built 1900, model built 1900 by George Perry, Erecting Shop foreman at Stratford Works, awarded Gold Medal at Paris exhibition in 1900.

Model of steam locomotive "Claud Hamilton"

1900

Handbill, Great Eastern Railway, 'Cheap Mid Day Excursions to Stratford', with times and prices, 2395/3/22, March 1922, dimensions 212 x 144mm, badly mounted on paper with letters regarding the offer of the handbill.

Cheap mid day excursions to Stratford'

1922

Notice, Great Eastern Railway, "Comrade Roger Smith' informing workmen of his passing, issued by James Allthorpe and William Curtis, September 17th September 1897.

Comrade Roger Smith

1897

Great Eastern Railway handbill advertising a day excursion to Yarmouth and Lowestoft, on Thursday 17th August, 1911. Dated July 1911 and signed by Walter H. Hyde.

Great Eastern Railway handbill advertising a day excursion to Yarmouth and Lowestoft

1911

Great Eastern Railway handbill advertising cheap excursions to the international health exhibition on Mondays between the 6th and 20th October 1884. The handbill is dated September 1884 and is printed on yellow paper.

Great Eastern Railway handbill

1884

Handbill, Great Eastern Railway, 'Rail and Boat Excursions to Harwich and Ipswich Thursday 4th October 1866', With fares and times and handwritten note on the reverse, 23rd September 1866

Rail and Boat Excursions to Harwich and Ipswich Thursday 4th October 1866

1866

Card showing Lord Claud J Hamilton, Chairman and John Foster Esq, Deputy Chairman of Great Eastern Railway

Card showing Lord Claud J Hamilton

Map of Great Eastern Railway main lines and connections, on reverse suburban lines and connections, scale 1 mile - 1 ".

Map of Great Eastern Railway

1900-1923

Menu card, Great Eastern Railway, [unidentified].

GER menu card

1910

Plan of Cambridge Station and surrounding area, Hills Road to Mill Road, scale 1 chain - 1" Great Eastern Railway land agent's office, revised 1909.

Plan of Cambridge Station and surrounding area

1909

Left luggage ticket issued by the Great Eastern Railway, Bishopsgate Station, London.

GER left luggage ticket

Proforma, signalman's and driver's tickets for double line block telegraph failure working, Great Eastern Railway.

Proforma, signalman's and driver's tickets for double line block telegraph failure working

1900-1923

Timetable No. 1 Supplementary Working Timetables of special passenger trains & other arrangements for week ending 17 June 1893, for Bass & Co.'s excursion to Yarmouth & back, issued by Great Eastern Railway.

no 1supplementary working timetables of special passenger trains

1893

Guidebook, Great Eastern Railway, "Farmhouse and Country Lodgings in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk", 1901, places to visit and timetables, 103 pages, soft cover.

GER - Farmhouse and Country Lodgings in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Norfolk

1901

Guidebook, Great Eastern Railway, "Railway Illustrated Tourist Guide", 1879, places to visit, cost new 1d, 31 pages, soft cover.

GER - Railway Illustrated Tourist Guide

1879

Illuminated Address, awarded to Mr William Middleton, a laborer (sic), by great Eastern Railway [signed by Lord Claud Hamilton & WH Brett], retired 24 Dec 1897 after 52 years service, aged 78, Feb 1898, printed & coloured, fragile.

Illuminated address awarded to Mr William Middleton

1898

Travel guide, Great Eastern Railway, Company's Restaurant Service, c1914, 8 pages.

Great Eastern Railway Company's Restaurant Car Service

1914

Travel guide, Great Eastern Railway, Seaside and Countryside in East Anglia, by Percy Lindley, illustrations by Oscar Wilson, describing resorts around the East coast of Britain, 64 pages, with card cover.

GER: Seaside and Countryside in East Anglia

1915