Dunrobin – The Little Royal Engine
…You can find out more about our collection of Sharp Stewart Drawings and all of our archive collections by visiting the page of our Search Engine Library and Archives Centre….
Poetry please!
…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,…
Railway tourist guides: part 2
…South Western Railway ‘Summer tours’ 1909. Object no. 2000-7024 Top centre – Great Eastern Railway ‘Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads’ by Payne Jennings 1897. Object no. 2000-7651 Top right…
Displays & exhibitions in Search Engine
…Deltic Preservation Society. Our next planned display is for the Flying Scotsman Preview Weekend on 28-30 May. We will have a selection of 4472-related items from our archives, and visitors…
Can you read this letter? There’s a prize on offer if you can
…project has been made possible by The National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives. Update 5 December: Thank you for all the entries to the competition: the winner will be contacted…
Celebrating the Jubilee: royal photos from our archives
…job is being involved with the Silver Jubilee tours, and the crowds that flocked to the trackside when we were 20, 30 miles away from drop-off point, waving the Union…
The railway link to a 131-year-old shipwreck
…identify the plate. We do hold original records for various independent manufacturing companies in our archives and we also hold copies of some that are held elsewhere. Unfortunately, these don’t…
Boiled AND roasted? Rediscovering an 1870s turkey dinner
…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…
Diagrams, deers and decor: lighting represented in railway engineering archives
The Wolverton Works archive contains thousands of drawings of carriages, wagons and early locomotives. It also, rather surprisingly, contains a large number of light fitting designs. This is because as…
Post-1950 family history resources
…(or the later British Railways Board). Once you know what section they worked in, it will make finding more employment records (held at the National Archives) easier. You would be…
Which Borough Market are we dealing with?
…the archives (that came from BR Southern region in 1976) it was built???? It does not say. In fact, the more you look, the more you find the information is…
Slow Train to Switzerland
…that in 1850 the Swiss government invited Robert Stephenson to design a new national rail network (which is why Swiss trains still run on the left). In the Cook archives…