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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
Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

circa 1864-circa 1875
Printing Block, heraldic device

Printing Block, heraldic device

1893-1923
Printing Block, Great Eastern Railway, 'Norwich'

Printing Block, Great Eastern Railway, 'Norwich'

1893-1923
Printing Block, Great Eastern Railway heraldic device

Printing Block, Great Eastern Railway heraldic device

1862-1923
Printing Block, Great Eastern Railway, 'Seaside Arrangements'

Printing Block, Great Eastern Railway, 'Seaside Arrangements'

1893-1923
Printing Block, 'New Route to SHERINGHAM & WEST RUNTON'

Printing Block, 'New Route to SHERINGHAM & WEST RUNTON'

1893-1923
Printing Block, 'LOWESTOFT'

Printing Block, 'LOWESTOFT'

1893-1923
Printing Block, Great Eastern Railway, stamp

Printing Block, Great Eastern Railway, stamp

1893-1923
Printing Block, 'SOUTHEND ON SEA AND BURNHAM-ON-CROUCH'

Printing Block, 'SOUTHEND ON SEA AND BURNHAM-ON-CROUCH'

1893-1923
Great Eastern Hotels

Great Eastern Hotels

circa 1890s
St Pauls Cathedral divine service

St Pauls Cathedral divine service

1919
Great Eastern Railway menu card

Great Eastern Railway menu card

1912
Great Eastern Railway Cheap Excursions Notice

Great Eastern Railway Cheap Excursions Notice

1888
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
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
Harlow Garden Village

Harlow Garden Village

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

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

1903
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
Headboard, Great Eastern Railway, cast iron, royal coat-of-arms.

Royal coat-of-arms headboard, Great Eastern Railway

1862-1923
Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

1903-1911
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
Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

1922
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
Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

1919
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
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
Volume, paper with board covers, rebound and re-covered, GER Carriage Stock - Brake Thirds & Brakes, written up circa 1902, entries backdated to 1875, with amendments made up to circa 1958. Details GER brake third class and brake carriages, their numbers, drawing and diagram references, compartments, suburban or main service, dates of modifications, dates of disposal.

GER Carriage Stock - Brake Thirds & Brakes

circa 1902-circa 1958
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
Volume, paper with board covers, rebound and re-covered, GER Carriage Stock - Saloon & First, written circa 1904, entries backdated to 1875 with amendments made up to circa 1940. Details GER saloon and first class carriages, their numbers, drawing and diagram references, compartments, suburban or main service, dates of modifications, dates of disposal.

GER Carriage Stock - Saloon & First

circa 1904-circa 1940
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
GER Diagram of Gradients - booklet consisting of 9 gradients sheets. Issued by the Engineer, Liverpool Street Station, February 1911.

GER Diagram of Gradients - booklet consisting of 9 gradients sheets. Issued by the Engineer

1911-02
Map, system map, Great Eastern Railway, 1919, published/printed by GER, drawn by L Dix, paper-backed linen.

Map, system map

1919
Cap Badge, Great Eastern Railway, GER scroll script initials, Dimensions: 2 1/4"x1".

Cap badge, Great Eastern Railway

Volume, paper with board covers, rebound and re-covered, GER Carriage Stock - Thirds, written up circa 1902, entries backdated to 1875, with amendments made up to circa 1956. Details GER third class carriages, their numbers, drawing and diagram references, compartments, suburban or main service, dates of modifications, dates of disposal. First of two volumes listing third class carriages.

GER Carriage Stock - Thirds

circa 1902-circa 1956
Volume, paper with board covers, rebound and re-covered, GER Carriage Stock - Thirds, entries begin in 1901, with amendments made up to circa 1956. Details GER third class carriages, their numbers, drawing and diagram references, compartments, suburban or main service, dates of modifications, dates of disposal. Second of two volumes listing third class carriages.

GER Carriage Stock - Thirds

circa 1901-circa 1958
Map, Great Eastern Railway, 'Felixstowe (part of)', 1902, 25.3 inches to 1 mile, published/printed by Ordnance Survey, paper-backed linen.

Map, Great Eastern Railway, Felixstowe (part of)

1902
Volume, paper with board covers, rebound and re-covered, GER Carriage Stock - Composite & Second, written up circa 1913, entries backdated to 1875, with amendments made up to circa 1958. Details GER composite and second class carriages, their numbers, drawing and diagram references, compartments, suburban or main service, dates of modifications, dates of disposal.

GER Carriage Stock - Composite & Second

circa 1913-circa 1958