…museum’s Library and Archives and Corporate Information teams to transfer the Railway Museum’s historic public records from the corporate record stores into our Archives, ensuring our adherence to the Public…
One of the best things about researching exhibitions is getting to go to interesting places and see interesting things. Some times that involves lots of travel, but sometimes there’s brilliant…
While sorting through the National Railway Museum’s archive collections we came across this poem written about an unusual topic; the start of construction on the Dee Bridge, near Connah’s Quay…
…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…
…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…
…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 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…