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GER: The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway

1910

GER: To the Continent by the Harwich Steamer

1914

Great Eastern Railway menu card

1912

Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

1922

Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

circa 1864-circa 1875

Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

1919

Great Eastern Hotels

circa 1890s

Great Eastern Railway cheap excursions

1888

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

1893

Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

1905

St Pauls Cathedral divine service

1919

Parkeston Quay Harwich

1912

Harlow Garden Village

portrait of charles hubbard

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
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

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

GER left luggage ticket

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

Card showing Lord Claud J Hamilton

Guidebook, Great Eastern Railway, "Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads", by Payne Jennings, 1897, 103 pages, hard cover.

GER: Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads

1897
Great Eastern Railway Employees' Accident Benevolent Fund Index giving particulars of cases in which application has been made for grants, 1913 to 1923. Divided into alphabetical sections, then each section arranged chronologically by date of the Fund committee meeting which awarded the compensation. Each entry gives the employee's name, occupation, department, station, nature of injury, date of injury, date of committee meeting which awarded compensation, and remarks, usually detailing compensation amounts or treatment.

Employees' Accident Benevolent Fund - Index giving particulars of cases in which application has been made for grants

1913-1923
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
Driver's Certificate, Great Eastern Railway, for George Smith, issued at Stratford on July 4th 1912, pre-printed paper with hand written details.

Great Eastern Railway drivers certificate

1912
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
Map, system map, Great Eastern Railway, 1919, published/printed by GER, drawn by L Dix, paper-backed linen.

Map, system map

1919
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
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
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
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
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, East Coast Pictures, by Percy Lindley, illustrations by Oscar Wilson, describing resorts around the East coast of Britain, 48 pages, with card cover.

Great Eastern Railway, East Coast Pictures

1915
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
Folder of Board of Trade documents giving instructions on the opening of railways. Collected together by the Great Eastern Railway and kept in the District Engineer's Office at Stratford. Includes manuscript letters and notes about amendments to the instructions. Added to by the LNER.

Opening of Railways - Board of Trade Requirements

1889-1928
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
Rule book, Great Eastern Railway, Rules and Regulations, 1897, 189 pages, dark red hard cover.

Great Eastern Railway Rule Book 1897

1897
Roll of honour, colour printed, Great Eastern Railway staff members from Whittlesea station joining H.M.Forces 1914-1915, in glazed frame, 530mm x 685mm. 26.9685 x 20.8661 in.

Roll of honour

1915
Great Eastern Railway Ponders End Diagram of Signals - Great Eastern Railway water-coloured diagram of signals at Ponders End station. On linen-backed cartridge paper. Dated 16 May 1916.

Ponders End Diagram of Signals, Great Eastern Railway

1916-05-16
Specification, Great Eastern Railway, High Sided Wagons, September 1920, 13 pages.

GER Wagon Specification

1920
Volume, paper with board covers, re-bound, Loco Engine Stock, Great Eastern Railway, manuscript copy kept by A.J. Hill, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GER, Stratford Works. Originally written up circa 1904, corrected to 1 April 1921 and again to 10 October 1923. Gives details of locomotives, their numbers, wheels, dimensions, brakes, dates of modifications, when broken up etc.

Loco Engine Stock

1904-1923
Volume, paper with board covers, rebound and re-covered, GER Carriage Stock - Miscellaneous: Mail Vans, Carriage Trucks, Horseboxes, Cattle Boxes, Milk Vans, Fish Vans, written up circa 1902, entries backdated to 1870, with amendments made up to circa 1948. Details GER Mail Vans, Carriage Trucks, Horse Boxes, Cattle Boxes, Milk Vans, Fish Vans, their numbers, drawing and diagram references, compartments, suburban or main service, dates of modifications, dates of disposal. Some vehicle lengths also given.

GER Carriage Stock - Miscellaneous: Mail Vans, Carriage Trucks, Horseboxes, Cattle Boxes, Milk Vans, Fish Vans

circa 1902-circa 1948
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
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
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
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
Certificate, Diploma for Gold Medal awarded to Great Eastern Railway Co. at the Naval, Shipping & Fisheries Exhibition, Earl's Court, London, 1905.

diploma for gold medal awarded to great eastern railway

1905
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, Great Eastern Railway, "April 1898" with notice to the staff, issued by H.G. Drury, 1898.

Great Eastern Railway timetable, April 1898

1898
Waybill, Great Eastern Railway, for perishable and other miscellaneous traffic by passenger train, Used on 27th August 1884.

waybill for perishable and other miscellaneous traffic by passenger train

1884