Ceremonial Spade, Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway Co., Silver spade with ribbed wooden handle. Engraved with company crest and words "Joshua Heywood Collins Esq. of Kelvindale Chairman. Used for cutting the first sod. 6th October 1891 Maryhill Contract A. H. Boyle Contractor", Dimensions 7 3/4" x 39" Ceremonial Spade
Ceremonial Spade, Bradford Halifax & Keighley Railway, metal spade with wooden handle, engraved silver plaque attached to handle: "The First Sod of the Bradford & Thornton and Bradford Halifax & Keighley Railway was turned at Thorton Road, Bradford with this spade by Abraham Briggs Foster Esq. of Queensbury, Yorkshire on 10th March 1874". Ceremonial spade - Bradford, Halifax and Keighley Railway 1874
