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

circa 1876-1977

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

circa 1933-circa 1971

Wolverton Works Archive

1831-1993

Papers of Ian Braybrook relating to BR Freight privatisation

1993-1999

Atholl Hill papers relating to railway design. Papers include photographs

1960-1980

Railway Notepaper

circa 1845

Memorabilia collected by Alan Ramage

1960-1969

North Eastern Railway register of prosthetic limbs

1918-1922

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

Sierra Leone Railways 225hp diesel locomotive and rolling stock

Eastleigh drawings on film negatives

1942-1944

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

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

circa 1910-1935

Midland Railway Police Officer James Gates papers and notebooks

1903-1932

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

1948-1968

E.A. Langridge apprenticeship papers

1900s

Hudson House Brochures

1968

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

1973

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Carriage and Wagon guard books

1880-1908

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

1847-11-20

Leonard Raisbeck Archive

1773-1845

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

2016

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

1966-2016

Regional Railways North East franchise bidding documents accumulated by Ian Yeowart

1990s

Accrual to the Campaign for Better Transport archive

1970s

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

1921
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
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
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
Photo of engraving of Blenkinsop locomotive drawing 3 coal wagons; photograph of print showing (a) Blenkinsop locomotive and 3 passenger coaches (b) locomotive and 3 large waggons (c) locomotive and 3 small wagons. Passepartout. Printed n the back, "From Thos Gray's Observation on a General Iron Railway, 1821, Ex Phollimore Collection, Top picture is in Gray's 3rd Edition and 4th Edition R3480.

Photo of engraving of Blenkinsop locomotive drawing 3 coal wagons

Accrual to Railfuture Archive (RFT). Records of the Railway Development Group (RDS) (later Railfuture) Midland Branch. Includes core organisational records such as minute books, reports and campaign literature. this is an accrual to the original Railfuture / RDS deposit (2018-212)

Accrual to the Railfuture Archive

Mallard MRI archives, not dated.

Archive of John Mallard and his team from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

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

Archive material from Watson and Sons (Electro-Medical) Ltd

1935-1970
Sealink Seaspeed Motorail file, Services for the Motorist 1973. The file includes highlights for 1973, Sealink European Services, Sealink Camping and Caravenning, Sealink and Children, Seaspeed Inclusive Motoring Holidays, and a UK Motorail Map. A pocket at the back of the file contains seven leaflets entitled Dover-Boulogne Dover-Calais Seaspeed Hovercraft 1973 Timetable & Fares, Automobile Touring Services Ltd 'When this happens abroad...', Isle of Wight Sealink Car Ferry Services '73, Sealink Route Guide and Sales Directory, British Transport Hotels 'Cure for the Common Winter', Seaspeed Hovercraft 'Holland is here - the Free + Easy Way', and Sealink International Car Ferries 1973 Advance Information: To Europe Ireland and Channel Islands'.

Services for the Motorist 1973

1973
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
Southern Railway inventories of Horley station, British Rail publicity material, receipts etc., Southern Railway "Lookout" arm badge, First World War North Eastern Railway Railway Service arm badge, Maryport an Carlisle Railway Company share certifcate, Network Southeast, RailFreight, ScotRail ephemera, carrier bags, napkins

John Lunn collection of ephemera

1920-1989
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
Notes and papers concerning locomotive construction and maintenance at Crewe Works inlcuding boiler and tender notebooks, locomotive lists, locomotive observations, etc. c 1894 - 1950. 3 boxes/loose volumes.

Papers of Charles Williams

1894-1950
Diagram Sheet of Crossheads, dyeline copy Crewe drawing no. C 17334

Diagram sheet of crossheads drawing

1951-02-16
Buffer for Engines and Tenders, dyeline copy Crewe drawing no. C 7754

Buffer for engines and tenders drawing

1951-02-16
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
Drawing of Cast Iron Wheel for Standard Tender, Crewe drawing no. 160, 26 July 1877.

Cast iron wheel for standard tender drawing

1877-07-26
Certificate. Locomotive Steam Enginemen and Fireman's Society. Membership certificate of Daniel Charles Powell, admitted as a member of the Manchester Branch on 25 June 1881. Designed by Thos H Harker. Engraved by T Blagburn, Manchester. Irregular shape with curved corners at top.

lse&fs membership certificate

1881