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Sierra Leone Railways 225hp diesel locomotive and rolling stock

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

circa 1933-circa 1971

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

circa 1876-1977

Eastleigh drawings on film negatives

1942-1944

Atholl Hill papers relating to railway design. Papers include photographs

1960-1980

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

circa 1910-1935

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

Papers of Adrian Shooter and Chiltern Railways

1993-2011

Memorabilia collected by Alan Ramage

1960-1969

North Eastern Railway register of prosthetic limbs

1918-1922

Archive of the British Transport Christian Fellowship (BTCF)

1926-2014

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

2015-01

Papers of Ian Braybrook relating to BR Freight privatisation

1993-1999

Railway Notepaper

circa 1845

Wolverton Works Archive

1831-1993

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

1948-1968

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

Hudson House Brochures

1968

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

1847-11-20

Regional Railways North East franchise bidding documents accumulated by Ian Yeowart

1990s

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

1921

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

1966-2016

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

1973

E.A. Langridge apprenticeship papers

1900s

Accrual to the Campaign for Better Transport archive

1970s

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Carriage and Wagon guard books

1880-1908

Midland Railway Police Officer James Gates papers and notebooks

1903-1932
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
Mallard MRI archives, not dated.

Archive of John Mallard and his team from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

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
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

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

High Speed UK - Connecting the Nation brochure

2016
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

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
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
[Papers relating to the clinical and experimental neuroscientific work carried out at the Burden Neurological Institute (est. 1939) and by specific members of staff in the areas of neurology, neurophysiology, electroencephalography etc. 3 linear feet, listing available]

Papers relating to the clinical and experimental neuroscientific work carried out at the Burden Neurological Institute

circa 1917-1980
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
Photograph of Janet Shipton with the 6 channel EEG and Stroboscope, 1955. Photograph stamp - Hans Wild

Photograph of Janet Shipton with the 6 channel EEG and Stroboscope

1955
Photograph of Grey Walter 'Tortoise', (M.Speculatrix), negotiating obstacle on path to light source, 1954 Photograph credit - Desmond Tripp, Bristol photo

[Papers relating to the clinical and experimental

1954
Photograph of Grey Walter and Vivian Dovey

Photograph of Grey Walter and Vivian Dovey

1943
Accrual to the Hackworth family archive, collected by the Hackworth family , made in the United Kingdom 1827 - c1900. Three early letters probably detailing the running of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Three letters Joseph Pease to Timothy Hackworth (1827, 1829), one letter Robert Stephenson to Timothy Hackworth (1828). Large framed drawing 'Loco engine for St Petersburg Railway Manufactured by Timothy Hackworth Engineer New Shildon Sept 1836' Printed, framed engineering drawings taken from patent documents annotated by Robert Young 'Hackworth's Wylam Engine', 'Blenkinsop Loco, Stephenson's, Brunton's', 'Stephenson's Killingworth Engines' Photograph of fountain in Shildon park, bearing a representation of the "Royal George"; autographical Memorial of Eminent Men of Science Engineers and Mechanics of the Nineteenth Century (copies of signatures)

Hackworth family papers

1827-1900
Two note books and 46 loose sheets of notes and sketches concerning old locomotives by E T Lane.

E. T. Lane Collection

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
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
Research Papers of A.F.Cook.

A.F.Cook Collection

1939-1999