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Locomotive nameplate, cast aluminium, ‘Battle of Britain Memorial Flight / Spitfire Hurricane Lancaster Dakota’, duplicate nameplate as fitted to Class 91 locomotive No. 91110, naming ceremony took place at the National Railway Museum’s Railfest event on 2nd June 2012, 2695mm x 260mm x 5mm.

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

2012
Poster, London Midland. ‘The Smarter Way to Get Timetables’. 2012. The poster is in the style of a smartphone with the information on the screen of the phone. Text reads ‘Getting your timetable is now even easier. / Simply scan the QR code with your smartphone.’ The poster shows 16 timetable front covers each with a QR code next to it. The lower edge of the poster is dark blue with the London Midland logo. Double royal.

The Smarter Way to Get Timetables

2012-05
Poster, London Midland. 'Buy a Ticket or Pay the Price', 2009. 'Evading your fare is against the law and we're cracking down on offenders. Our dedicated revenue protection team - often in plain clothes - are trained to find those who have deliberately avoided paying. Buy a ticket or pay the price. If not, you'll end up in court. As well as a fine of up to £1000, do you really want your friends, family and employer seeing your name on this poster?' With a list below of the names of people prosecuted for fare evasion in November 2009. The posters is in the colours of green, grey and black on a white background. The top right corner of the poster has 'Fine £1000' and the lower edge of the poster is dark blue with the London Midland logo and the website address.

Buy a Ticket or Pay the Price

2009-12
Poster, London Midland. 'Made in the Midlands'. 2010. Poster designed by student Omari McCarthy, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. It shows a map of the UK with a target radiating out from Birmingham and a bull at the centre of the target. In the lower left portion of the poster is the Birmingham Bullring building. The student's name and the project details are below the image. Part of a collaborative project between London Midland and the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design/Birmingham City University. Double royal.

Made in the Midlands

2010-04
Poster, London Midland. ‘2 For 1 When You Go By Train, HMS Belfast’. Summer 2010. The poster has a illustration of the HMS Belfast with Tower Bridge open in the background. Below the waterline the ship is shown sectioned with photographs of various activities happening aboard the ship and short facts. The caption reads ‘Life below deck / HMS Belfast / A ship load of fun just waiting to be discovered.’ The Imperial War Museum logo is in the top left and there is an advert for the ‘London 2 for 1 Offers’ leaflet in the lower left corner. The lower edge of the poster is dark blue with the London Midland logo and website address. Double royal.

2 For 1 When You Go By Train, HMS Belfast

2010
Poster, CrossCountry. ‘How can I avoid Summer holiday traffic?’ The poster shows a smart phone with dialogue boxes reading, ‘How can I avoid Summer holiday traffic?’, with a photograph of a traffic jam, followed by the text ‘Book train tickets online and dodge the queues’. Below this is an image of a CrossCountry train with the windows used as an internet search engine search box. The top edge of the smart phone has the CrossCountry logo, the lower part has the text ‘get mobile with / crosscountrytrains.co.uk / your search engine’. Poster ref XC0130. 637mm x 1018mm.

How can I avoid Summer holiday traffic?

2011-05
Poster, CrossCountry. ‘Take the mystery out of your magical mystery tour’. The poster shows an image of an internet map (from Tele Atlas) with a dialogue box pointing to the JORVIK Viking Centre, York. The dialogue box has an image of an historic sword and helmet and the text ‘Explore is a unique online tool that allows you to look at your destination before you leap on the train. You can buy the cheapest Advance tickets available, there’s no booking fee and you can even book your hotel room. Just picture yourself there. Crosscountrytrains.co.uk/explore’. With the CrossCountry logo. The National Railway Museum, York Castle Museum and the railway station are also flagged. Poster ref XC0135. 637mm x 1018mm.

Take the mystery out of your magical mystery tour

2011-09
Poster, CrossCountry. ‘Hot Cross Country Savings’. Poster shows a double row of hot cross buns laid out like a railway line on a white background. The lower edge is burgundy with the text ‘Book early for the best deals on your train travel this Easter.’ There is a QR code and text ‘Also available through our FREE Train Tickets app. / To download scan here or text STATION to 87080’ / crosscountrytrains.co.uk / your search engine’. CrossCountry logo in top right. Poster ref XC0144. 637mm x 1018mm.

Hot Cross Country Savings

2012-01
Poster, CrossCountry. ‘Find the cheapest train tickets – no booking fee, no queues’. The poster shows a photograph of a CrossCountry train in a modern station [possibly Leeds]. The side/windows of the train are used as a search box for an internet search engine, with a ‘Search’ button also on the side of the train. The lower edge is burgundy with the text ‘Buy your train tickets for less at crosscountrytrains.co.uk and you could / even print them at work or at home – so there’s no queuing… guaranteed / crosscountrytrains.co.uk your search engine’. CrossCountry logo top right. Poster ref XC0047. 637mm x 1018mm. 55mm tear top edge and crease/printing error top left corner.

Find the cheapest train tickets – no booking fee, no queues

2009-02
Notice, CrossCountry. ‘Hello / We’re CrossCountry’. The notice shows a network map of the companies lines. It reads ‘With a network covering over 1,400 miles and serving over 100 stations, we cross more of the country than any other train company. Where can we take you?’. Below this are various pieces of information about buying tickets under the following headings: Buying your tickets; Register with us; JourneyCare; Group Travel; Your Feedback’. Map and text in shades of red/burgundy/mauve on a white background. There are logos for Facebook and Twitter. The lower edge of the poster is burgundy with a hand holding a smart phone. It reads ‘Search / crosscountry [with logo] / online|mobile|app’. Poster ref XC0155. 637mm x 1018mm.

Hello. We’re CrossCountry

2009-12
Poster for the Indian film, 'Ra.One', 2011, directed by Anubhav Sinha, starring Arjun Rampal, Shahrukh Khan and Kareena Kapoor. The poster depicts the video game creation (with 'six-pack' and humanoid features) carrying a collapsed woman towards the camera.

Ra.One poster

2011
Poster, paper, A4 sized, Relax and unwind with a well earned break, issued by the Railway Convalescent Homes (RCH), 2010. Advertising breaks at the remaining home, Bridge House at Dawlish.

Relax and unwind with a well earned break

2010
Paperback book, 'Manage Your Stress for a Happier Life', with plastic protective cover by Terry Looker and Olga Gregson, published by Hodder Education, 2010

'Manage Your Stress for a Happier Life'

2010
Paperback book, 'Introduction to Coping with Phobias' by Brenda Hogan, published by Constable & Robinson, 2009

'Introduction to Coping with Phobias'

2009
Tickets and timetables, card and paper, 7 APTIS tickets and one itinerary for journeys to the new station at the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, June and July 2014. With two North Rail timetables for the routes on which the hospital station is situated (Middlesborough to Whitby and Nunthorpe / Middlesborough to Newcastle). The station opened to the public on 18 May 2014,[6] and was opened officially by Minister of State for Transport, Baroness Kramer on 18 July 2014. 5 of the tickets are from the official opening day.

Tickets and timetables showing the new station at the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough

2014-05-2014-07
Oral history interview with Tony Steadman conducted and recorded by Claire Cohen on 19 June 2012, at the National Railway Museum. Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes. [Track 01] Background, birth [00:00:36] [end of track 01] [Track 02] Initial involvement with National Railway Museum; volunteer group emanating from friends of museum; interviewed by Dr Lowe [00:02:30] [end of track 02] [Track 03] his occupations and availability [00:01:00] [end of track 03] [Track 04] how he heard of volunteering at museum; Dr Lowe’s interview; organised rosters; 1990 concrete degradation in Great Hall; station hall opened; he was asked to be coordinator in 1990; continued till 2000 [00:04:48] [end of track 04] [Track 05] 1990, 1950’s concrete was deteriorating, clearing Great Hall of artefacts; moved to Great Railway Show and NRM on tour; Mallard moved to Swindon; move lasted a year; [00:05:00] John Coiley retired in 1992; changes in museum, Great Hall technical and Station Hall social [00:08:24] [end of track 05] [Track 06] Bill Greenwood asked Tony to be volunteer coordinator; relationship between volunteers and staff; [00:05:00] Information Point started 1992; Tuesday night team with Richard Gibbon; ad hoc activities; Chris Allender and Clare Evans involvement; first duty on miniature railway in 1995 [00:10:27] [end of track 06] [Track 07] creation of volunteer committee, deciding projects; Miniature railway; Bob Gwynne visited America; introduced awards for volunteer service; incentive to keep volunteering; Matt Hick and Christmas dinner with awards; NMSI at forefront of volunteering; staff and volunteers; short term contracts for museum staff [00:11:18] [end of track 07] [Track 08] comparison of security staff then and now (2012); Tony stepped down in 2010; volunteer trips arranged from 1998; NYMR with Great Western saloon; [00:05:00] Matt Hick arranged trips, volunteers outings, first one to York station, Cedar Grand, St Pancras; [00:10:00] Tony now organises trips; Railfest, crisis management; [00:15:00] best part of volunteering is management and training; Worse moment was with A4’s and rain in the North Yard; Andrew Scott; [00:20:00] changes in Health and Safety over the years; public announcements over time; [00:25:00] Personal information, secrecy; best of time was relaxing away from work; value of volunteer work worth to the museum; letters of appreciation [00:31:33] [end of track 08] [end of interview]

Tony Steadman interviewed by Claire Cohen

2012-06-19
Hand drawn sketch of an artificial or mechanical tree for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, by Professor Klaus Lackner, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, Columbia University, New York, 2010

Sketch of a prototype unit for capturing carbon dioxide from the air by Klaus Lackner

2010
Part of cake made of compacted figs, probably grave goods, Egyptian, 3500BC to 1500BC

Part of cake made of compacted figs

3500-1500
Prototype of simplified IVF culture system, consisting of three pairs of connected test tubes, containing liquid, in a polystyrene stand, developed by Jonathan Van Blerkom, University of Colorado Boulder, United States 2009

Prototype simplified IVF system

2009
Running in board, Northern, ‘Workington North'. Workington North railway station was a temporary railway station in Cumbria, United Kingdom, constructed following floods which cut all road access to Workington town centre from north of the River Derwent. The station was located one mile north of Workington station on the Cumbrian Coast Line. Network Rail began construction of the new station during the night of 24/25 November 2009. The station opened on 30 November 2009, construction having taken six days. The temporary station was built in November when the railway provided a vital lifeline in the aftermath of flooding. The rail industry worked quickly to ensure that the Cumbrian Coast Line kept communities connected when the road network was disrupted, and it carried unprecedented numbers of passengers. When it first opened Workington North was used by over 2000 passengers every day but with the opening of the road bridge in April 2010 use of the temporary station all but ceased. It closed 08 October 2010.

Workington North running in board used during flooding

2009
Iron age axehead, bronze Eastern Europe, Bronze Age.

Iron age axehead

3300-1200 BCE
Modern film gate made for the transfer of the original Lee and Turner sequential-frame three-colour film footage to 35mm master fine grain copy as part of the process of realising the colour information contained in the original film. Made by Brian Pritchard.

Film gate for the copying of original Lee and Turner 38mm sequential-frame three-colour film to 35mm film

2012
A set of 12 slides, large format (5" x 7" or 6" x 8") with thin-sectioned human tissue, each stained with one of the three stains (haematoxylin and eosin, modified silver or thionin-based Nissl stain).

Set of 12 human tissue slides

circa 2009
Krisitian De La Riva, Do we understand our actions? Animation and stereo sound, stored on DVD disc, 2010

Do we understand our actions?

2010
Cyanotype of an x-ray of seaweed by Nick Veasey 'Alaria Esculenta', 2011, edition 2 of 5. Print size 56 x 76cm.

Alaria Esculenta

2011
Commemorative model train set, z gauge, die-cast metal, Minitrains 1/220, Flying Scotsman train, comprising of model steam locomotive, London & North Eastern Railway, 4-6-2, Flying Scotsman, No. 4472, 3rd class carriage No. 24105, 3rd class brake, No. 43567 and three pieces of display track, made in China for Editions Atlas, 2011, boxed with image of poster by Leo Marfurt advertising the northbound Flying Scotsman, c1927.

Minitrains commemorative Flying Scotsman model

2011
Games sheet, paper, Trax Onboard Games, produced by Grand Central Railway Company, circa 2011. Features the character Trax the Tiger and includes a word search, spot the difference, I Spy and other puzzles.

Trax Onboard Games

circa 2011
Box of crayons, crayon and card, Grand Central crayons, made by Norwood Promotional Products Europe SLU for the Grand Central Railway Company. Issued on Grand Central services with the 'Trax Onboard Games' sheet.

Grand Central Crayons

circa 2010
Poster, Grand Central Railway Company, 'Only £25 Return to London Throughout this February', 2011. The poster shows a large '£25' figure in-filled with a silhouette of the London skyline in red and black. It has black and orange text on a white background. Below the text is an indication of the stations served on the route. The lower edge shows an image of a Grand Central train and the Grand Central Railways logo, along with the terms and conditions.

Only £25 Return to London Throughout this February

2011
Poster, Stena Line, showing a close up of a ship in a stylised design. 2009

Stena Line poster

2009
Poster, Grand Central Railway, 'London Suddenly Seems Closer', c.2011. Poster shows a photograph of a member of the Queens Guard in colour with a white stripe down the centre containing text in black and orange. There is an illustration of a Grand Central train entering the picture from the lower left corner. The text reads 'London Suddenly Seems Closer, From as little as £19 standard class advance purchase single ticket. A majestic weekend now looks more accessible with our low price Advance Purchase train tickets. And don't worry, if you arrive last minute you can still buy our normal fares on-board. Buy your tickets now at www.grandcentralrail.com. Free wifi - more legroom - friendly staff.' With the Grand Central logo below and terms and conditions along the bottom edge.

London Suddenly Seems Closer

circa 2011
Poster, First ScotRail Sit back, relax and enjoy the savings. Published June 2011. Poster shows a photograph of a man asleep in a carriage with cartoon wings and ‘save up to 75%’ above his head. Tagline: ‘A better way to go’. Format: double royal.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the savings

2011/06
Poster, CrossCountry. ‘Next Stop... Summer (Punting). Text reads 'Next Stop / Historic Places, New Discoveries’. The poster has a photograph of the Bridge of Sighs, Cambridge with a group of people in a boat punting. The CrossCountry logo is in the top right corner. The title is in BR style totem. The lower edge of the poster is burgundy with the text 'Rediscover Britain by train / this summer with CrossCountry' and with a hand holding a smart phone. It reads ‘Search / crosscountry [with logo] / online|mobile|app’.Poster ref XC0160. 637mm x 1018mm

Next Stop... Summer (Punting)

2013-06
Au revoir Mallard, 2min40sec video edited by Chris Hogg. People giving their farewell to Mallard leaving NRM for Shildon (Mallard on the tracks attached behind lococomotive Tornado, BR 60165)

DVD-R 'Au revoir Mallard'

2010
Colour portrait photograph of L S Lowry (1887-1976) with some of his paintings, taken at the artist's home in Mottram-in-Longendale by Sefton Samuels, 1968. Digital colour print made 2010, printed on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper.

Portrait of L S Lowry

2010; (1968)
Six black and white portrait photographs taken of fishing industry workers in the North of Scotland by Paul Duke between 2009 and 2012. From series of photographs published in the Book 'At Sea - A Portrait of a Scotish Fishing Community' by Paul Duke, published by P & P Editions, London, 2013.

Six Portrait Photographs from 'At Sea'

2009-2012
Black and white portrait photograph of Gordon Brown, fishing industry worker in the North of Scotland, photographed by Paul Duke between 2009 and 2012. Giclee print on Hahnemuhle Pearl paper using Epson K3 Ultrachrome inks. Number 6 from a series of photographs published in the Book 'At Sea - A Portrait of a Scotish Fishing Community' by Paul Duke, published by P & P Editions, London, 2013.

Gordon Brown

2009-2012
Colour portrait photograph of L S Lowry (1887-1976), taken at Mottram-in-Longendale by Sefton Samuels, 1968. Digital colour print made 2010, printed on Fujicolor Paper. See page 34 in 'Northerners. Portrait of a No-Nonsense People' by Sefton Samuels, published by Ebury Press, 2011.

Portrait of L S Lowry

2010; (1968)
Bronze adze blade probably early dynastic, c.3000 B.C.

Bronze adze blad

circa 3000 BCE
Prototype of a new type of patient chair for use in hospitals to minimise the risk of HAIs (Healthcare Acquired Infections) designed by PearsonLloyd and made by Kirton Healthcare, United Kingdom, 2010

Prototype patient hospital chair

2010
Prototype of a new type of patient commode, the Kirton commode, for use in hospitals to minimise the risk of HCAIs (Healthcare Acquired Infections), designed by PearsonLloyd and made by Kirton Healthcare Ltd, Haverhill, Suffolk, England, 2010

Prototype Kirton commode

2010
Six digital c-type prints by Edmund Clarke from the SSSI series, printed by Genesis-Digital, London, 2011.

Six Prints From SSSI Series

2011
Copy of press release issued by the Science and Technology Facilities Council on 4 July 2012, announcing the discovery of a new particle, possibly the Higgs boson. Signed by the speakers at the London press conference: STFC CEO Prof. John Womersley, CMS scientist Prof. Tejinder (Jim) Virdee and ATLAS scientist Prof. Jon Butterworth.

Higgs boson press release

4 July 2012
Coal miner's clothing and papers relating to Cutacre Opencast UK Coal PLC Coal Mine near Bolton. The archives consist of plans for Cutacre Opencast Coal Mine near Bolton, including a map of restoration and landscaping plan, map of the site plan, map of geological supplement, and statistics for coal production reduction.

Coal miner's clothing and pape

2010-2011
Pair of post operative goggles, in original box, made by Theodore Hamblin Ltd., 15 Wigmore Street, London, England, 1940-1960.

Pair of post operative goggles

21940-1960
A black and white pigment print photograph, entitled 'Todmorden Natural History Society ramble to Lumb Falls' by Martin Parr, taken in 1977. Part of the series 'The Non-Conformists' (1975-1980). Printed from the original negative in 2013.

Todmorden Natural History Society ramble to Lumb Falls

1977; (2013)
A black and white pigment print photograph, entitled 'Crimsworth Dean Methodist Chapel' by Martin Parr, taken in 1976. Part of the series 'The Non-Conformists' (1975-1980). Printed from the original negative in 2013.

Crimsworth Dean Methodist Chapel

1976; (2013)
Black and white pigment print entitled 'Scar Top Methodist Chapel Anniversary Service' photographed by Martin Parr, 1975. Part of the series 'The Non-Conformists' (1975-1980). Printed from the original negative in 2013.

Scar Top Methodist Chapel Anniversary Service

2013; (1975)
Black and white pigment print entitled 'Lord Savile', Hebden Bridge, photographed by Martin Parr, 1975. Part of the series 'The Non-Conformists' (1975-1980). Printed from the original negative in 2013.

Lord Savile

2013; (1975)
Black and white pigment print entitled 'Auction of Harvest Produce', Crimsworth Dean Methodist Chapel, photographed by Martin Parr, 1975. Part of the series 'The Non-Conformists' (1975-1980). Printed from the original negative in 2013.

Auction Of Harvest Produce

2013; (1976)