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Papers of Ian Braybrook relating to BR Freight privatisation

1993-1999

Atholl Hill papers relating to railway design. Papers include photographs

1960-1980

Memorabilia collected by Alan Ramage

1960-1969

North Eastern Railway register of prosthetic limbs

1918-1922

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

circa 1876-1977

Eastleigh drawings on film negatives

1942-1944

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings and ephemera relating to railway queens and photograph of Kathleen Lawton, railway queen

circa 1933-circa 1971

Photograph albums and booklets concerning London & North Eastern Railway, London, Brighton & South Coast, and Southern Railway publicity

circa 1910-1935

Sierra Leone Railways 225hp diesel locomotive and rolling stock

Wolverton Works Archive

1831-1993

Virgin Trains East Coast booklet announcing the launch of the new franchise in cooperation with Stagecoach

2015-01

Papers of Adrian Shooter and Chiltern Railways

1993-2011

Archive of the British Transport Christian Fellowship (BTCF)

1926-2014

Ephemera relating to railway catering created by European Rail Catering, On Board Services, Rail Gourmet, Travellers Fare, Intercity, Pullman, TransManche Link, Great Western Trains and Virgin Cross Country

circa October 1981-circa May 1998

Railway Notepaper

circa 1845

Regional Railways North East franchise bidding documents accumulated by Ian Yeowart

1990s

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Carriage and Wagon guard books

1880-1908

Letter, William George Armstrong to R S Reid, 20 November 1847

1847-11-20

Archive of the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG). Contains records relating to NELPG anniversaries

1966-2016

Accrual to the Campaign for Better Transport archive

1970s

Three items related to the unveiling of the First World War memorial at Euston

1921

Leonard Raisbeck Archive

1773-1845

Folder containing the notes of Graham Sealy's work on the British Railways Hovercraft

1948-1968

Midland Railway Police Officer James Gates papers and notebooks

1903-1932

Bring Back British Rail’s first report 'A Better Railway for Britain: Re-unifying our railways under public ownership'

2016

E.A. Langridge apprenticeship papers

1900s

Hudson House Brochures

1968

Papers relating to the restoration of Flying Scotsman at BREL works, Derby, 1973

1973
Papers of Harry Usher, (1889-1937). Harry Usher (d. 1927) was a former General Manager of the Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway, a post he held from 1914 to 1926. Prior to that he had worked in various accounting, administrative and managerial roles for railways in Uruguay, Mexico, Costa Rica, South Africa, Chile and Cuba. The collection tells a ‘world’ railway story and gives a well-illustrated overview of a career railway administrator. Much of it is career-illustrative material – contracts, cuttings, regulation books, maps etc. However, there are several notebooks and photographs to give more depth and detail to the work Usher did. Moreover, there is material from every stage of his career. 4 boxes, 1 folder.

Papers of Harry Usher

1889-1937
Fireman, Walter Clarke's diary, 1940s. A record relating to the life and interests of a working fireman in the 1940s, it includes entries about his firing turns, improvement class material, and instruction on learning the piano. Walter (Wally) Clarke was the fireman on the up goods involved in the Brownie smash in January 1946. Also includes loose papers and newspaper clippings.

Fireman, Walter Clarke's diary

1940s
A 1913 Government of the Chinese Republic 5% Gold Loan unstamped bond for the Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway. The bond is for £20 (of a £10million issue). There are two pages, the first page is the certificate and the back page is made up of bonds.

Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway - 5% 1913 bond

1913
Archives, High Speed UK - Connecting the Nation brochure. Made by High Speed UK (HSUK) in 2016

High Speed UK - Connecting the Nation brochure

2016
London & North Western Railway (L&NWR) and London & Birmingham Railway original architectural drawings. 1843-1913. Five rolls of 83 drawings in five boxes, one large fragile volume of L&NWR miscellaneous drawings which includes a handwritten list of the drawings within the volume. A listing is available in the project folder listing the individual drawings. The drawings are on waxed linen, paper and backed linen. The drawings include general construction drawings and railway line elevations of Northampton Station, Stabling of horse keepers house, Coventry and bridge number 4 for South Stafford Line.

London & North Western Railway and London & Birmingham Railway architectural drawings

1843-1913
Papers of R. H. Spencer, United Kingdom, c 1982 - 2010. British Rail employment papers - British Rail Personal Performance and Prospects booklet, British Railways Board (BRB) Standards of conduct and guidelines, restructuring, redundancy, expenses, salary review, payroll correspondence, member correspondence from The British Transport Officer’s Guild (1988-1994), c 1982 – 1994; Reading Signalling Projects Group employment papers – management pay award, 1993; ADtranz (now part of Bombardier Transportation) employment papers – memos, pay scales, 1997; Railtrack employment papers - Correspondence regarding annual leave, terms of contract, employee benefits booklet, Performance review process toolkit, 2001; Network Rail employment papers – ePay, 2010.

Papers of R. H. Spencer

circa 1982-2010
Mr George Penfold British Railways Southern Region traffic apprenticeship journal, 1954. Daily journal of his Traffic Apprenticeship, or Cadetship, a three year management training scheme where he spent periods of time with each of the traffic related departments, including signalling and locomotive departments of British Railways.

George Penfold apprenticeship journal

1954
Archives, High Speed UK - Connecting the Nation brochure. Made by High Speed UK (HSUK)

High Speed UK - Connecting the Nation brochure

2015
Two postcards written from overseas ambulance train number 36, written by ambulance train nurse ‘Polly’. She describes the cold, her 'little stove' being useful, being busy, she asks to be sent a photo of a wedding, describes not being granted leave "my leave is off". Images of Abbeville and Rouen on the front of each postcard. Date on one postcard is partially obscured but appears to be in 1918

Two postcards written from overseas ambulance train number 36

1918
Correspondence; letters, copy letters, notes and telegrams from both the North British Railway Company (NBR) and London & North Western Railway (LNWR) to arrange Queen Victoria's visit to Scotland by Royal Train, in August 1878, one LNWR notice dates from 1876. Also includes timetable and notices, 44 items.

Papers relating to Queen Victoria travelling by rail

circa 1870-1879
Collection of papers etc. of John G. Click consisting of 3 black ring binders containing correspondence 1954-1963 between J.G. Click and Oliver Bulleid and Sean Day-Lewis covering the time at Rugby Test Plant, Brighton, Eastleigh Works, Derby Works and Day-Lewis' biography on Bulleid. Two plastic wallets containing LNER and SECR locomotive weight diagrams, press cuttings, drawings and scetches, and a copy of publication by L.D. Porta titled 'The contribution of a new steam motive power to an oilless world', 1987.

Papers of John G Click

1954-1987
Great Northern Railway (GNR) 14 Feet Diameter Turntable (For Wagons Only) scale 1 foot to an inch, cross section.

Drawing of Great Northern Railway (GNR) 14 Feet Diameter Turntable

circa 1850-circa 1922
Drawing, 14 feet diameter turntable (for engines and wagons) scale 1 foot to an inch, type drawing 19

Drawing of 14 feet diameter turntable

circa 1850-circa 1922
Papers, collection of records, certificates and notebooks relating to the engineering apprenticeship of Philip Smith at British Rail Engineering Ltd Locomotive works, Derby, from 1976 to 1980.

Papers of Philip Smith

1976-1980
London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) Southern Area 15 feet diameter turntable for engines and wagons, scale 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot plan of floor patio.

Drawing of London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) Southern Area 15 feet diameter turntable for engines and wagon

circa 1923-circa 1947
Two scrapbooks / workbooks produced by Tyer and Co with indexes containing sketches / designs of signalling equipment such as indicators, block instrument symbols, up line, down line, tablets, dials train describer dial rings for the Great Western Railway GWR, Caledonian Railway, North Eastern Railway NER and some designs for Egypt (estimate 1850- 1923)

Two scrapbooks / workbooks produced by Tyer and Co with indexes containing sketches/designs of signalling equipment

circa 1850-circa 1923
Circa three plan chest drawers and one roll of drawings which are listed relating to the pumping engines used on the Severn Tunnel, most of which date from 1853-1890 with some later ones relating to repair work undertaken up to 1940.

Severn Tunnel Pumping Engine Drawings

1853-1890
Official Railway Map of England & Wales, prepared and published by The Railway Clearing House, London, 1920. The map is backed on cardboard and was originally in a frame. Scale 1" to 11 & 1/4 miles.

Official Railway Map of England & Wales

1920
LNER Builders Football Club, founded by Albert Trim at York Carriage Works. Material includes London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) Builders committee meeting minutes 1987-2010, Annual meeting minutes 1950, 1964-1987. London & North Eastern (LNE) Builders Association Football Club teams and players squadron [?] note book 1978-Jan 1989. Two 1994 diaries, Acomb cricket club score cards, performances and ephemera, one file about the club house, match record sheets, press cuttings, photographs, certificates, correspondence, a cloth badge and notebook of members. The material also includes legal agreements between York Rugby Union Football Club and London & North Eastern (LNE) Builders Association Football Club for purchasing the club house in 1966 and between British Railways Board and London & North Eastern (LNE) Builders Association Football Club for the tenancy of land at Hob Moor, York, 2nd Sept 1966.

LNER Builders - Football Team archive

1964-2009
32 small rolling stock diagrams from Stratford Works, London and North Eastern Railway Company. Drawing series 14600 and 16648

Stratford Works Drawings & Rolling Stock Diagrams Listing (for 14600 and 16648 drawing series)

1930s
Negatives from General Hospital Newcastle, Nov. 1962, from archive material from Watson and Sons (Electro-Medical) Ltd., mainly referring to cineradiography apparatus developed in conjunction with Dr. Russell Reynolds in 1935 and 1951

Negatives from General Hospital Newcastle

1935-1970
A hard bound register containing staff suggestions and giving details as to whether or not they were approved.

British Rail Staff Suggestions Register

1974