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Map of the Lancashire & Yorkshire North Eastern Railway shewing its connection with the exisiting and projected lines of the district

1846

SR & Constituent Locomotive Drawings (Curl Acquisition)

1850-1969

100-Foot tape measure, British, 1928

1928

6-Foot tape measure, British, 1923-1928

1923-1928

General Arrangement 4-6-2 passenger engine

1938

York Site and Great Western Railway Company Drawings transferred from Network Rail

circa 1876-1977

North British Locomotive Co. Ltd. Drawings

1840-c. 1920

Design for a Dress/Travelling Landau carriage

1820

'The Great Exhibition', Peepshow, English, 1851

1851

Dallmeyer Lens Cleaning Outfit

1925

South Kensington ... for the museums

1936

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Bow Works Collection - 803 drawings of locomotives and components from the North London Railway's Bow Works

1873-1925; 1936

Materials House

1999

Isle of Man, Treasure Isle

1923-1947

Tilbury for the Continent

1927-1936

Goole

1923-1947

The George Bennie Railplane System of Transport

1929

The Permanent Way

circa 1924

Padded cell from psychiatric ward, Farnborough Hospital

1936-1940

Moon: West of Tycho

1851

Moon: Aristarchus

1851

Ethnographical 'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia

circa 1914

Geigy Weed Tables

1975

1st class ticket Vladivostok to Paris

1914

12-Foot tape measure, British, 1923-1928

1923-1928

Crewe Works engineering drawings

Engineering Drawings from the Derby Carriage & Wagon Works

circa 1877-1965

Liverpool and Manchester Railway Plan 1824

1824-11-20

Kyle of Lochalsh

1923-1948

"Royal Highlander" Approaches Aberdeen

circa 1927

Dove Cottage, Grasmere

circa 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Mummified cat, ancient Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

50-Foot tape measure with notebook, British, 1846-1860

1846-1860

Wired-linen tape measure sample, British, 1928

1928

Engineering drawings of broad and narrow gauge railroad trucks by Hennet & Spink

circa 1850-circa 1859

South Kensington London Transport poster

1936

Moon: Gassendi and crater

1851

Moon: Craters, South East Tycho

1851

Model of the Sailing Ship 'Blair Athole'

1924-1934
Board game, The Locomotive Game of RailRoad Adventures, a game which contains coloured aquatints on one sheet of linen, of early railway stations and carriages, by Edward Wallis, 42 Skinner Street, London.

The Locomotive Game of RailRoad Adventures

Model boat, scale approximately 1/10, fast inshore rescue/patrol launch, 1939-1945, of a type built during World War II at York Carriage works.

Model second world war motor launch boat, 1939-1945

1939-1945
Replica, of the 1903 ‘Wright Flyer’ aircraft, by The de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, 1948. The actual 1903 ‘Wright Flyer’: - designed and built by the Wright Brothers: Orville and Wilbur, achieved the world’s first successful heavier-than-air powered flight, on 17th December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States.

Replica, 1903 ‘Wright Flyer’ aircraft

1948
File of agreements between various Yorkshire collieries and railway companies over the use of sidings, shunting etc., 1895 to 1940. The agreements are as follows: Midland & North Eastern Railway Companies Committee and Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd. (typed copy of an agreement dated 15 January 1895); Great Central Railway and Manvers Main Collieries Ltd. (photostat of an agreement dated 10 July 1901); Great Central Railway and the Denaby & Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., 12 April 1904, with plan; Brodsworth Main Colliery Co. and the Hull & Barnsley Railway (typed copy of an agreement dated 27 February 1911, with photostat plan); Great Northern Railway and Barber Walker & Co. (photocopy of an agreement dated 23 December 1912 re Bentley Colliery); South Yorkshire Joint Line Committee and Markham Main Colliery Co. Ltd., 18 September 1917, with plan; grant from Henry Lodge Ltd. and the Hon. E. J. L. Ward to the Dearne Valley Railway Co. re shunting at Goldthorpe Colliery, 29 October 1917, with plan; London & North Eastern Railway and the Markham Main Colliery Ltd., 10 November 1924, with plan; South Yorkshire Joint Line Committee and the Markham Main Colliery Ltd., 6 June 1928, with plan; London Midland & Scottish Railway and the Rossington Main Colliery Co. Ltd., 29 April 1932, with plan; Manvers Main Collieries Ltd. and the London & North Eastern Railway, 15 July 1935, with plan; London & North Eastern Railway and the Nostell Colliery Ltd. (typed copy of agreement dated 4 December 1940, with plan).

File of agreements between Yorkshire collieries and railway companies for sidings (supplied title)

1895-1940
Book; The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia Vol. 1. Written by Herbert, L. 796 pages.

The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia Volume 1

1836
Book; The Enginner's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2. Written by Herbert, L. 928 pages.

The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia

1836
Plan of Goods Depot at Nine Elms, London & South Western Railway. Dated 12 October 1910. Scale 88 feet = 1 inch. [Backed on linen].

Plan of Nine Elms good depot

1910
Dissected plan of the Great Northern Railway waggon gauge with board covers

plan of the Great Northern Railway waggon gauge