…through shunting-related incidents. These stark figures contextualise the archives we’ve recently added to the collection. The first of these new acqusitions are the papers of Thomas Attwood Brockelbank. Brockelbank had…
…years, we have worked with them on a British Library-funded Endangered Archives Project called Tracking the Past. Our then-archivist Tim Procter and Sierra Leone archivist Albert Moore worked together to…
…illness or accident. The record book for the Great Eastern Railway’s Benevolent Fund, covering 1913-1923, survives in the archives at the National Railway Museum—and has now been fully transcribed as…
…large collection of photographs of railway construction in the nineteenth century held in our archives. The bulk of the S W A Newton collection, however, is in two archives, the…
…the business and technical records. The project, funded by the National Archives Cataloguing Grant Scheme finishes at the end of September. If you would like a copy of any of…
The GEC Traction archive is the most extensive archive collection held at the National Railway Museum. The GEC Traction archive cataloguing project is funded by the National Archives Cataloguing Grant…
There are around a million engineering drawings in the National Railway Museum’s archives. They are a captivating window upon every aspect of railway history from the dawn of the age…
One of the nicest things about working in Search Engine is coming across fascinating items in the archives that I didn’t know about. Quite often I happen upon some wonderful…
…and are publicly available: The National Railway Museum The National Archives The Midland Railway Study Centre at the Silk Mill Museum in Derby A physical check has been made…
…York Central Concrete Depot was opened in August 1928, manufacturing around 90 different types of articles for use on the railway, with annual production of around 20,000 articles. In the…
…railway companies’ files at the National Railway Museum, National Archives and beyond. On 29 January 1910, coupler F Dolphin was at work at New Street Station, Birmingham, on the London…
…full with collections—and, like many archives, we have little spare space. Just a small section of the miles of shelving in our archive and library stores Where did all these…