…our archives, the BFI and in some private film archives. Some titles have surfaced online, others on commercial DVDs. Parts of their output, such as the documentary segments of Romance…
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…
…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…
…of stunning railway advertising posters. But you may be surprised to discover that a relatively tiny collection of archive material creates some of the most asked-about archives we hold. Not…
…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…
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 booklets concentrating on specific destinations or events, and promoting cheap fares. We have a collection of such material within our archives, and have massively increased the amount of the…
…hours to roast” Alongside the letter was a festive package that included ”a few sausages” and ”a few bones to make some good gravy”. Our archives contain more food-related documents…
…the age of 90, although it was never published. The collection was catalogued and the blog written by Robert Hillman, a student on the Master of Archives and Records Management…
…box. Poetry in the archives Below is the printed broadsheet of a poem entitled “A Dirge over the Broad Gauge”. It was written by A B Berry in May 1892,…
This is another set of photographs from the Humphrey Household collection in the National Railway Museum’s archives. Household’s special interest in minor, narrow-gauge and industrial railways led him to go…
Tania Parker, Search Engine assistant at the National Railway Museum, unearths insights from the archive’s collections of private railway manufacturers. Over recent months I have been cataloguing the National Railway…