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Worthington Archive

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

A Short and Sure Guide to Railway Speculation

General papers and collected documents

Photograph of Lune Bridge

Drawing of wooden viaduct at Newcastle

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

Rainfall records

Printed map of north‑east France and Belgium

Letter from W. Gray to “Mr Stephenson”

Midland Railway forty‑eighth annual ball commemorative picture card

Printed pamphlet ‘Lancashire; or, Our Own County’ by W. W. B. Hulton

WORTH/2/7: Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway – Reports of Visits to Some American Railroads

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway – Reports of Visits to American and Canadian Railroads

Envelope with list of contents for timber arched viaduct papers

“Our Holiday August 1877” notebook

Letter from S. B. Worthington to W. B. Worthington

Report by John Steedman on the proposed railway from the Forth & Clyde Canal to Stirling, Callander and Alloa Ferry

Map of the York & North Midland Railway

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

Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Railway Chronicle Travelling Chart — London to Tunbridge, Ashford, Folkestone and Dover

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

Railway Chronicle Travelling Charts

Proposed railway from Kelso to Berwick

Grand Junction Railway, Wolverhampton contract — Schedule of prices

Printed report by Robert Stevenson on railway lines from the Midlothian coalfield

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

Railways as They Really Are — Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Sections of ground surveyed for the several lines of the Edinburgh Railway

Railway Chronicle Travelling Chart — London to Richmond

WORTH/3/5: Printed map of Old Monkland, Bothwell and Dalzell parishes, Lanarkshire

Report on a proposed railway connecting the Clydesdale coalfield with Glasgow and regional markets

Partial specification for railway works

The History of the London and North‑Western Railway: A Paper by Clement E. Stretton, C.E.

Memorial on the River Irwell and proposed station at Hunt’s Bank

Magazine clipping titled ‘Some Early Railway Tickets’

The Hunt’s Bank Scheme

LMS Magazine article on Richard Trevithick

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

Plan and section of the proposed Clydesdale–Glasgow railway

How He Reigned and How He Mizzled: A Railway Railery. York! You’re Wanted! by Alfred Crowquill Delt.

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

Manchester Ship Canal plan no. 2 (Runcorn to Warburton)

Items from the Worthington family archive

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