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Yarmouth South Town bench

Yarmouth South Town bench

1862-1922
Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

1905
St Pauls Cathedral divine service

St Pauls Cathedral divine service

1919
Great Eastern Hotels

Great Eastern Hotels

circa 1890s
Great Eastern Railway menu card

Great Eastern Railway menu card

1912
GER: The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway

GER: The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway

1910
Parkeston Quay Harwich

Parkeston Quay Harwich

1912
Great Eastern Railway Cheap Excursions Notice

Great Eastern Railway Cheap Excursions Notice

1888
Harlow Garden Village

Harlow Garden Village

portrait of charles hubbard

portrait of charles hubbard

GER: To the Continent by the Harwich Steamer

GER: To the Continent by the Harwich Steamer

1914
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1907

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1907

1907
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

1903
Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

1903-1911
Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

circa 1864-circa 1875
Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

1922
Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

1919
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

1909
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

1909
Royal Wedding - Departure from Liverpool Street Station of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York

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

1893
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

Station seat, Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway, slatted from front to back, wood, painted green, plates attached: "GRIMSBY C.B. FOR PASSENGERS ONLY", in use at the Corporation Bridge terminus.

Station Seat, Great Eastern Railway

1912-1922
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

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

Royal coat-of-arms headboard, Great Eastern Railway

1862-1923
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
Telegraph Block Instrument, Great Eastern Railway, 2-position absolute block type, sending and receiving with tapper and combined gong.

Telegraph Block Instrument

Headboard, Royal Coat-of-Arms, Great Eastern Railway, carried by the train which conveyed the Duke and Duchess of York from Liverpool Street, London to Wolferton, for Sandringham, following their wedding in July 1893.

Royal Coat of Arms, Great Eastern Railway

1893
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

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
Tickets, card tickets in buckram-covered guard books, photograph album and box, GER, GNR and LNER Specimen Ticket Collection, 1900s to 1930s. The collection comprises specimen Edmondson-type tickets of every class and type from the GNR and the LNER. Tickets are numbered 0000 and many are stamped 'Specimen.' Many of the tickets are grouped by the LNER operating sections, and there are unusual and rare items such as perambulator tickets, tickets for agricultural shows, exhibition tickets etc. etc. The GER tickets include WC, sailor on duty and music hall artist tickets. Housed in 9 guard books and 1 modern photo album, plus 2 small boxes of loose tickets. Several thousand tickets in total. Collection originated at the Railway Printing Office, Stratford, East London, which was established by the GER and continued by the LNER. The specimens were saved by the last Master Printer, a Mr. Townley, on the closure of the office in the 1950s. He passed the collection to his son, who bequeathed it to The National Archives.

GNR and LNER Specimen Ticket Collection

1900-1939
Platform bench, Great Eastern Railway, monogram on bench ends, cast by Warner, London, 1900-1910.

Platform Bench, Great Eastern Railway

1900-1910
Portfolio of original and blue print general arrangement locomotive drawings from various companies collected by Sir William McAlpine. Most drawings are signed by chief mechanical engineers responsible. Includes drawings for locomotives from Great Southern Railway (Ireland), Great Southern & Western Railway (Ireland), Grand Trunk Railway (Cananda) Great Northern Railway, Great Eastern Railway, London, Chatham and Dover Railway, Rhodesia Railways (built by North British Locomotive Company), London and North Western Railway, as well as the Para Central De Aragon (Spain) 2-8-2+2-8-2 Garratt locomotive, 4-6-2 Type 10 locomotive for Belgian Railways.

McAlpine Drawing Collection

1849-1940
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, "Comrade Roger Smith' informing workmen of his passing, issued by James Allthorpe and William Curtis, September 17th September 1897.

Comrade Roger Smith

1897
Map, Great Eastern Railway, 'Tottenham, Wood Green, Enfield', undated early 1900's, hand tinted to highlight detail, published/printed by Ordnance Survey, paper-backed linen.

Map, Great Eastern Railway

1900
Great Eastern Railway instruction manual "Regulations for Working Sykes' Lock and Block and Double and Single Line Block Telegraph and Electric Train Tablet," 1 January 1909. Issued at Liverpool Street Station, 21 December 1908. 132pp.

Regulations for Working Sykes' Lock and Block and Double and Single Line Block Telegraph and Electric Train Tablet

1908-12-21
Map, Great Eastern Railway, 'East London', undated early 1900's, hand tinted for detail, published/printed by Ordnance Survey, paper-backed linen.

Map, Great Eastern Railway, East London

1900
Certificate, Great Eastern Railway Pension Supplemental Fund Membership, designed by W. Lucas at the Carriage Department, printed at the company's works, Stratford, issued to Mrs Florence Pavitt on 1st October 1896.

Great Eastern Railway Pension Supplemental Fund Membership

1896
Two itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Mineral Office (London), 10th Annual Outing to Felixstowe via Ipswich and the Orwell. Highly decorated, hand drawn and photostatted, 20 May 1911.

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911
Two itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Mineral Manager's Department 9th Annual Outing at Hastings. Highly decorated, hand drawn and photostatted, 27/28 May 1910.

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910
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
Rule book, Great Eastern Railway, Rules and Regulations, 1897, 189 pages, dark red hard cover.

Great Eastern Railway Rule Book 1897

1897
Map, system map, Great Eastern Railway, 1919, published/printed by GER, drawn by L Dix, paper-backed linen.

Map, system map

1919
Telegraph, Electric and International Telegraoh Company, Great Eastern Railway, 1867.

Great Eastern railway telegraph

1867
Drawing, scale 4 feet to 1 inch, elevation of Great Eastern Railway city terminus (Liverpool Street), in glazed frame, 1155mm x 820mm.

Liverpool Street

circa 1865-circa 1922