Christopher Valkoinen
Railways a history in drawings. Thames & Hudson National Railway
Museum. 2021. 300 illustrations including diagrams
Foreword by Judith McNicol, Director of the National Railway Museum. The
Museum has a huge collection of drawings which are stored in perfect conditions
and available in a reasonable time if requested. As some are very large prior
arrangements have to be made before access is granted.
This compilation suffers from some serious gaps and some excessive coverage
of some topics. The National Railway Museum was based on that of the North
Eastern Railway and some key designs are not included: The Raven Pacifics;
the 0-8-0s possibly to include the three-cylinder type and...
| Introduction Drawing office at Horwich Works in 1917 (photograph with staff at work) in 1917 | 7 |
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| Building an engine at Crewe Works. LMS poster Norman Wilkinson [5XP Patriot class under construction] | 9 |
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| Detailed drawings of standard rivet heads. Caerphilly Works. July 1940 | 10 |
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| "Snake" chronology | 12/13 |
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| Two Centuries of Locomotion: Party of schoolchilden and teachers underneath a sandwich frame 0-6-0PT craned up in Swindon Works | 15 |
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| Stockton and Darlington Railway Horse Dandy [drawing of 1825] also replica in NRM Great Hall | 16/17 |
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| Trevithick Tram Engine: John Llewellin drawing of 1803 and Thomas Rowlandson hand-coloured print of Catch-Me-Who-Can of 1808 | 18/19 |
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| William Brunton Walking engine: letter of 28 April 1813 with diagram of its legs (far too small to see) | 20 |
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| Stockton and Darlington Railway Locomotion on plinth at Darlington North Road in 1860s (photograph) | 20 |
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| Stockton and Darlington Railway Locomotion: Stephenson's heavily edited diagram | 21 |
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| Liverpool and Manchester Railway locomotive Rocket Colour photograph of replica at NRM in 1982 | 22 |
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| Liverpool and Manchester Railway locomotive Rocket side & front elevation drawings of modified locomotive in July 1829 | 23 |
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| Liverpool and Manchester Railway a Planet type locomotive: lithograph by H. Austen with train | 24 |
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| Liverpool and Manchester Railway a Planet type locomotive: side & front elevation drawings | 25 |
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| Great Western Railway locomotive North Star photograph taken at Swindon in 1906 shortly before being scrapped | 26 |
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| Great Western Railway locomotive North Star fragments of original drawing | 27 |
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| London and North Western Railway DX class goods locoomotive photograph of two DX 0-6-0s at Stockport Edgeley engine shed | 28 |
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| London and North Western Railway DX class goods locoomotive 1858 drawing | 29 |
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| Great Northern Raillway Stirling Single class locomotive: No. 5 4-2-2 at York station | 30 |
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| Great Northern Raillway Stirling Single class locomotive: Doncaster 8-ft single detailed working drawing: side elevation & plan | 31 |
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| Duke of Sutherland's locomotive Dunrobin as housed on the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Raillway in Kent (photograph) | 32 |
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| Duke of Sutherland's locomotive Dunrobin detailed working drawing (elevation & plan) Sharp Stewart & Sons, Glasgow. Atlas Works | 33 |
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| London Brighton and South Coast Railway A1 class 'Terrier' locomotive: photograph of No. 2678 hauls passenger train on Hayling Island in 1937 | 34 |
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| London Brighton and South Coast Railway A1 class 'Terrier' locomotive: Brighton Works detailed working drawing; elevation & plan | 35 |
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| Great Western Railway City class and Abara class locomotives: photograph of City of Truro departing Shrewsbury in 1929 | 36 |
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| Great Western Railway City class and Abara class locomotives: frame plan elevation & plan | 37 |
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| Vorath Never Stop Railway carriage: still from film of trial at Kursaal in Southend-on-Sea | 38 |
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| Vorath Never Stop Railway carriage:: drawing elevations (side & end & plan) | 39 |
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| London Midland and Scottish Railway 4P 4-4-0 Compound Locomotive: materials colour indicate which: drawing elevations (side & end & plan) | 40/43 |
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| London and North Eastern Railway A1 Class Locomotive: No. 60103 Flying Scotsman on final journey under BR ownership (colour photograph) | 44 |
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| London and North Eastern Railway A1 Class Locomotive: poster by A.R. Thompson Take me on the Flying Scotsman | 45 |
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| London and North Eastern Railway A1 Class Locomotive: Doncaster Works sectional elevation drawings & plan (including side & front) | 46X |
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| Great Western Railway Castle class Locomotive: No. 4082 Windsor Castle with King George V & Chairman & General Manager & Collett on footplate with them | 50 |
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| Great Western Railway Castle class Locomotive: Swindon frame plan No. 72265 Lot 224 232 | 50/51 |
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| Southern Railway Lord Nelson class locomotive: No. 859 Lord Hood emerges from tueenss at Dover on outward Golden Arrow | 52 |
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| Great Western Railway King class No. 6000 King George V with bell on express | 54 |
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| Great Western Railway King class Locomotive: Swindon frame plan No. 82100 June 1927 Lot 243 | 55 |
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| London and North Eastern Railway W1 Class Locomotive No. 10000: general arrangement drawings (side elevation, cross sections & plan) | 56/59 |
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| Nigel Gresley on platform at King's Cross with W1 on arrival with Flying Scotsman and its footplate crew on 8 January 1930 (photograph) | 56 |
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| W1 being filmed on turntable at King's Cross | 58 |
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| London, Midland and Scottish Railway Coronation class locomotive: general arrangement drawings (side elevation, cross sections & plan): Derby signed W.A. Stanier | 60/63 |
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| No. 6261 Queen Elizabeth departing London Euston with Royal Train in 1938 | 62 |
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| London and North Eastern Railway A4 Class Locomotive: Doncaster general arrangement drawings (side elevation, cross sections & plan) |
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| Mallard at Barkston Junction on 3 July 1938 prior to record breaking run (photograph) | 64 |
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| Mallard at Peterborough on 3 July 1938 prior to record breaking run with Driver Joe Duddington, Fireman Tommy Gray & Inspector Sam Jenkins (photograph) | 66 |
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| North Eastern Railway dynamometer car: general arrangement drawings (side elevation, cross sections & plan) | 68/71 |
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| NER Bo Bo electric locomotive on test with dynamometer car: at Newport on 12 October 1921 | 68 |
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| Recording table inside dynamometer car: (colour photograph) | 70 |
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| Southern Railway Merchant Navy class locomotive incomplete general arrangement drawing | 72/73 |
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| No. 21C1 Channel Packet on trial at Swanley in March 1941 | 72 |
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| Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway 7F locomotive Derby Works general arrangement drawing | 74/75 |
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| No. 80 shortly after completion in 1914 (photograph) | 74 |
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| London, Midland and Scottish Railway 5MT 4-6-0 classs 'black five' locomotive: pipe & rod drawing. See also footnote 1 | 76/77 |
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| No. 45289 departs Liverpool Lime Street with an express through Edge Hill cutting | 76 |
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| Great Western Railway 5700 class pannier tank locomotive: general arrangement drawing | 78//79 |
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| No. L91 at Neasden depot in 1967. See also footnote 2 | 78 |
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| British Railways EM1 class locomotive: pipe arrangement drawing (elevation & plan) | 80/81 |
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| No. E 26020 when new in 1951 with both pantographs raised (photograph) | 80 |
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| London, Midland and Scottish Railway main line diesel locomotives | 82 |
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| Proposed English Electric drawing for LNER of 21 February 1945 See also footnote 3@@ | 85 |
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| Nos. 10001 and 10000 on express train near Grayrigg in 1949 (photograph) | 82 |
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| General arrangement drawing of Nos. 10001 and 10000 ((side elevation & plan) (the first successful diesel locomotives in the UK) | 86/87 |
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| H.G. Ivatt with staff who built it outside Derby Works in front of No. 10000 (photograph) | 84 |
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| English Electric proposals for LNER streamlined at front end diesel electric locomotives: side & front elevations & plans 6 April 1945 and 17 April 1945 | 85 |
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| British Railways Britannia class locomotive (side elevation & plan) | 88/91 |
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| No. 70000 Britannia carrying the body of King George VI on the Royal Train leaving Paddington for Windsor on 11 February 1952 (photograph) | 88 |
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| Draughtsman at Derby Works putting finishing touches on general arrangement drawing | 90 |
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| General arrangement drawing (front, firebox and cab cross sectional) | 91 |
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| British Railways English Electric Type 1 locomotive: No. D8010 on 6 November 1957 (photogtaph) | 92/93 |
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| English Electric general arrangement drawing (side elevation & plan) | 93 |
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| British Railways Western Region Type 4 locomotive: Swindon drawing of equipment layout in diesel hydraulic locomotive | 94/95 |
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| No. D1041 Western Prince in Sonning Cutting in 1963 | 94 |
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| British Railways English Electric Type 'Deltic' locomotive English Electric dyeline copy of general arrangement drawing | 96/97 |
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| Pair of Deltic locomotives (leading one No. 50013 The Black Watch) leaving York | 96 |
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| British Railways AL3 Type locomotive: No. E3031 passes Stafford in 1963 (photograph) | 98/99
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| General outline for British Railways AL3 side & end elevations & plans | 99 |
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| British Rail Advanced Passenger Train — Experimental: British Rail Research Department general arrangement drawing | 100/101 |
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| APT-E undergoes tilt testing mechanism (colour photograph) | 100 |
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| Associated Electrical Industries Tracked Hovercraft | 102/103 |
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| Tracked Hovercraft conceptual art (colour image) | 102 |
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| AEI general arrangement drawing | 103 |
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| London and North Eastern Railway P2 class locomotive | 109/110 |
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| No. 2001 Cock o' the North on test on Vitry stationary testing plant in January 1935 | 109 |
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| The Railway Passenger | 110/111 |
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| Carriages being constructed at LMS Wolverton Works c1928 | 111 |
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| Great Western Railway second class carriage: general arrangement diagram May 1839 | 112/113 |
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| Liverpool & Manchester Railway second and third class trains (colour prints) | 112 |
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| Great Western Railway third class carriage: general arrangement diagram for passenger wagon of 1842 | 113/114 |
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| Vale of Neath Railway post 1844 Railway Regulation Act third class carriage with roof but without windows | 113 |
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| Great Northern Railway third brake: general arrangement diagram (brake had a bird's nest look-out) | 114/115 |
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| North London Railway train with bird's nest look-out for guard at Broad Street Station c1906 | 114 |
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| London & North Western Railway Royal Saloon: side elevation diagram of whole train | 118/121 |
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| Queen Victoria's Royal Saloon on two six-wheel carriage frames (photograph) | 118 |
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| Interior of Queen Victoria's Royal Saloon (colour photograph) | 118 |
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| London Chatham and Dover Railway family carriage: Longhedge Works coloured general arrangement diagram | 122/123 |
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| Dundee business man James Caird hired two (Pullman?) coaches and a locomotive for a Scottish family holiday (photograph) | 122 |
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| Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway family carriage interior (photograph) | 122 |
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| South Eastern and Chatham Railway tri-composite brake carriage: coloured general arrangement diagram signed Harry S. Wainwright | 124/125 |
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| London and South Western Railway tri-composite brake carriage in National Collection (colour photograph) | 124 |
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| Great Northern Railway first-class dining carriage: coloured general arrangement diagram of clerestory vehicle on six-wheel bogies | 126/127 |
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| [Gresley articulated three car restaurant car for LNER Flying Scotsman with first-class, kitchen, and third-class cars] (photograph). | 126 |
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| London Midland and Scottish Railway proposed sleeping compartment [extra bed in 1942] (drawing) | 128/129 |
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| [Similar to above and implemented in 1962] (colour photograph) | 128 |
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| Pullman cars on Midland Railway (photograph) | 128 |
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| Great Northern Railway omnibus [horse drawn] coloured general arrangement drawing | 130/131 |
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| LNWR omnibus outside Randall's Hotel, London (photograph) | 131 |
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| Southern Railway suburban third-class motor coach general arrangement drawing No. 8417 to 8474 | 132/133 |
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| Suburban electric multiple unit at Guildford c1938 (photograph) | 132 |
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| Blackpool Corporation open single-deck tramcar: English Electric general arrangement drawing | 134/135 |
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| Midland Railway Blackpool poster: Pennines visible, but no trams (colour) | 134 |
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| London and South Western Railway hearse carriage for the Necropolis Railway blueprint of general arrangement of vehicle of 1899 | 136/137 |
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| South Eastern & Chatham Railway platform hearse general arrangement drawing 2287 | 136 |
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| Entrance to Necropolis Station at Waterloo (photograph) | 137 |
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| British Railways Cravens Ltd. diesel multiple unit: general arrangement drawing first- and second-class driving motor and second-class driving motor and trailer carriages for lightweight railcars | 138/139 |
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| Interior of Cravens unit (photograph) | 136 |
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| Freight on the railways: Sheffield Wicker goods yard in 1912: horses on road wagons | 140/141 |
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| Shildon Works coal wagon: drawing of Stockton & Darlington Railway chaldron wagon in 1854 | 142/143 |
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| Stockton & Darlington Railway chaldron wagon in 1875 to mark Golden Jubilee (photograph) | 142 |
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| Festiniog Railway slate wagon: LNWR Earlstown Works drawing of slate wagon for Festiniog Railway 1888 | 144/145 |
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| Festiniog gravity train of slate wagons descends line near Moelwyn Tunnel (photograph) | 144 |
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| Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway fish van: Newton Heath Carriage Works drawing | 146/147 |
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| Fish to be loaded into fish van at Fleetwood on 31 October 1910 (photograph) | 146 |
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| London & North Western Railway cattle wagon: blueprint of LNWR cattle wagon with drover's compartment | 148/149 |
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| Loading horse into a special horsebox in 1950s with a groom's compartment (photograph) | 148 |
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| Great Western Railway Post Office van: November 1883 drawing Lot 238 No. 4121 | 150/151 |
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| Postal workers sorting mail in Great Western Railway Post Office van (photograph) | 150 |
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| LNWR bogie vehicle with bags lowered and net extended (demonstration photograph) | 150 |
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| W.H. Smith newspaper van: Wolverton Works drawing of newspaper vans built for Messrs W.H. Smith & Sons | 152/153 |
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| W.H. Smith bookstall at Manchester Victoria in 1926 promoting Hutchinson's Marvels of the Universe as well as childrens railway picture books (photograph) | 152 |
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| Newspapers being sorted at Paddington in preparation for 11.30 p.m. departure on 5 February 1910. Evening Standard headline concerned Sackville Case (Lord Sackville inheritance (photograph) | 152 |
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London and North Western Railway dog carriage: LNWR Wolverton drawing: six-wheel carriage: side & end elevations & plan |
154/155. |
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| Sketch of interior of LNWR dog carriage from an advert in Cruft's catalogue | 154 |
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| British Railways exhibition stand at Cruft's Show in 1937 (photograph) | 154 |
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| Southern Railway scenery van: bogie: side & end elevations & plan | 156/157 |
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| Elephants from Chipperfield's Circus being loaded at Colchester en route to Rome to star in 1963 film Cleopatra (photograph) | 156 |
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| Great Western Railway 120 ton trolley: drawing exceptional loads, Swindon | 158/159 |
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| LNER electrical gennerator stator for power station departing Heaton Works of C.A. Parsons on trolley with two cantilevers & 56 wheels | 158 |
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| Railway workers | 160/161 |
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| Bishop's Stortford Station in 1870s: amputee with right arm & leg lost | 161 |
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| Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Directors Saloon: Newton Heath drawing: side & end & interior elevations & plan | 162/163 |
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| Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Directors Saloon: interior (photograph) | 162 |
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| London Brighton and South Coast Railway I3 class oiling diagram: 4-4-2T side elevation | 164 /165 |
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| Clear Road Ahead (Cuneo poster: colour): Taunton Castle with driver driving & fireman firing | 164 |
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| Great Western Railway goods brake van (narrow, but equals standard) gauge. Swindon side & end elevations & plan | 166/167 |
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| GWR passenger guard giving right away c1907 (photograph) | 166 |
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| Goods guard giving right away at night at Bishopsgate in 1962 (colour photograph) | 166 |
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| British Railways Sutton Bridge East Signal Box: coloured drawings: side & front elevations & plan (Cambridge Engineers Department September 1952) | 168/169 |
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| Signalmen at work in St. Pancras Junction Signal Box in 1912 (photograph) | 168 |
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| North Eastern Railway Leeming Bar station master's house: side & end elevations & plans for two storeys 14 March 1914 | 170/171 |
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| Staff at Clapham Junction station c1910 (photograph) | 170 |
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| Leeming Bar station with house on left (photograph) | 170 |
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| Great Western Railway permanent way trolley Swindon December 1873 (coloured diagram) | 172/173 |
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| Permanent way workers on LMS renewing track in 1923 with train passing on adjacent track (photograph) | 172 |
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| Navvies digging cutting for entrance to Dove Holes Tunnel, Midland Railway, Buxton (photograph) | 172 |
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| London and North Western Railway artificial leg drawing Crewe Works: Francis Webb signature | 174/175 | |
| Hospital ward at Crewe Works 1948 (photograph) | 174 |
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| St. Peter's Church, Crewe: architectural details (diagrams) | 176/177 |
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| Christ Church. Crewe built 1843 (photgraph c1890) | 177 |
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| The Railway Workshop of the World | 178/179 |
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| East African Railways No. 9025 being unloaded fr om ship at Mombasa by crane Jumbo (English Electric 1840 h.p. diesel locomotive (photograph) | 179 |
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| Camden and Amboy Railroad locomotive John Bull (photographed in 1892: acquired by Smithsonian Museum in 1884) | 180/181 |
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| Robert Stephenson & Co. drawing for boiler, 1837: coloured elevation, cross section & plan | 181 |
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| Belgian Government locomotive Le Belge built by Robert Stephenson & Co. (photograph) | 182/183 |
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| coloured side elevation & plan 1838 (later series) | 183 |
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| Ludwigs-Eisenbahn Gesellschaft locomotive Der Adler | 184/185 |
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| Colour painting Nuremburg tp Fürch Railway in 1835 | 184 |
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| Robert Stephenson & Co. drawing for the Der Adler (The Eagle) | 185 |
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| Tsarskoye Selo Railway locomotive (Russia) | 186/187 |
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| Passport for John Wesley Hackworth to travel to Russia | 186 |
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| Drawing produced in St. Petersburg of locomotive with two headed Russian eagle | 187 |
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| Egyptian Railways River Nile Bridge | 188/189 |
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| Robert Stephenson & Co. locomotive for the Khedive (photograph in Egyptian Railway Museum, Cairo | 188 |
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| Robert Stephenson & Co. drawing for bridge over the Nile on Alexandria to Cairo Railway: coloured elevation & plan | 189 |
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| Darjeeling Railway B class locomotive drawing | 190/193 |
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| Great Indian Pacific Railway: Bombay Victoria Station (photograph): Frederick William Stevens, architect | 191 |
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| Sharp Stewart No. 18b (photograph) | 190 |
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| Sharp Stewart drawing of locomotive for Darjeeling Railway (side elevation and plan) | 192/193 |
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| Mount Lyall Mining and Railway Company rack and pinion locomotive | 194/195 |
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| Dübs & Co. genneral arrangement drawing of 0-4-2T [side & front elevations & plan] | 195 |
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| New South Wales Government Railway streamlined Class 38 locomotives numbers 38012 and 3813 double-head on Western Endeavour Express past Penrith in 1970 | 194 |
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| Port Arthur convict railway (sketch: human traction) | 194 |
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| Imperial Railways of Japan: D9 class locootive built Neilson & Co. 4-4-0 general arrangement diagram | 196/197 |
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| Colour wood block print of locomotive on Tokyo to Yokohama Railway (no resemlence to a locomotive which artist may not have seen) | 196 |
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| Nathaniel Grew's Ice Locomotive: side elevation & plan | 198/199 |
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| Neilson & Co. photograph of Ice Locomotive taken in Russia in 1861 whre it was known as Rurik | 198 |
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| Peruvian Corporation TSS Ollanta | 200/201 |
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| In dock at Puno on Lake Titicaca on 12 May 2012 (colour photograph) | 200 |
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| Earle's Shipbuilders, Hull: general arrangement drawing (side elevations & plans) | 201 |
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| Central Africa Railway native coaches: Metropolitan Cammell drawing of bogie native coaches: (side & end elevations & plan) | 202/203 |
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| Prince of Wales visits Parel Workshops in Bombay by train in 1922 (native train in background) (photograph) | 202 |
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| Egyptian State Railways 1,600 h.p. locomotive: 168VT engine slowly being lowered at English Electric Preston Works | 204/205 |
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| Alternative drawings for diesel locomotive for export (2 drawings: lefthand not adopted) | 205 |
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| Railways at War | 206/207 |
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| Norman Wilkinson coloured artwork of Willesden freight marshalling yard being bombed with fires in wagons, searchlights in sky & shunting by 3F 0-6-0Ts & 8F about to head north | 207 |
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| Crewe tractors in action at Battle of Langemarch on 19 August 1917 | 210/211 |
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| Crewe general arrangement drawing of narrow gauge tractor (side elevation & plan based on Model T Ford) | 211 |
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| Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Continental Ambulance Train Pharmacy Car: side & end elevations, cross sections & plan: drawing 8710 | 212/215 |
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| Craned onto a ship at Tilbury Docks in 2016 (photograph) | 214 |
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| Interior with cots and electric fans (photograph) | 215 |
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| British Armoured Trains Alice and Norma (photograph at Swindon Works, February 1915) | 216/219 |
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| General arrangement drawing 52297 (side & end elevations & plan) | 217 |
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| Gun truck at North Walsham, Norfolk c1916 (photograph) | 218 |
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| General arrangement drawing Crewe Works gun truck showing armour plating, ammunition storage & water cooling for Maxim machime gun | 218/219 |
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| London Euston Station War Memorial: Reginald Wynn Owen of the LNWR erected in 1921 43 feet high obelisk representing infantry, artillery, Royal Navy & Royal Air Force (photograph) | 220/221 | |
| GWR Paddington unveiling War Memorial in 1922: Company lost over 2000 employees in World War 1 (photograph) | 220 |
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| Roll of Honour GWR Sheet Department Worcester made by A. Parry (colour illustration) | 221 |
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| Architectural drawing of LNWR War Memorial outside Euston Station (obelisk) | 221 |
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| Proposed Air-Raid Shelter at Waterloo Station: ground floor plan for proposed shelter to accommodate 3,300 people, April 1940 | 222/223 |
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| Anderson shelters made of corrugated steel being loaded into railway wagons from LMS mechanical horse & trailer on 14 April 1939 in Birmingham (photograph) | 222 |
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| Severe air-raid bomb damage at St. Pancras Station on 10 May 1941 which led to station closure for a week (photograph) | 222 |
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| Landing Craft Mechanized (1): Swindon works construction plan of Motor Landing Craft Nos. 151 to 162, November 1941 | 224/225 |
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| Two Landing Craft Mechanized (1), one with Bren Gun Carrier alongside destroyer during Dieppe Raid in August 1942 (photograph) | 224 |
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| Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0 tank locomotve: general arrangement drawing: side & front elevations & plan | 226/227 |
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| No, 192 at Bicester Army Depot in 1961 (photograph) | 226 |
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| British Railways Standard Control Centre for Civil Defence: general arrangement plan | 228/229 |
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| Sputnik 1 launched by Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 (photograph in Science Museum Collection) | 228 |
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| Building the railways: Share certificate for Stockton and Darlington Railway | 230/231 |
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| Proposed route of Stockton and Darlington Railway: map with gradient profile 1822 | 232/233 |
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| Sketch by J.R. Brown of the opening of Stockton and Darlington Railway | 232 |
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| Survey of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway: George Stephenson's initial proposed rouute (coloured map) | 234/235 |
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| Sketch by L. Shaw of the Moorish Arch at Edge Hill on opening day | 234 |
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| Sankey Viaduct: map of changes to watercourses at Sankey Viaduct in 1832 (coloured plan) | 236/237 |
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| Coloured aquatint by T.T. Bury of Sankey Viaduct in February 1831 | 236 |
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| Rails and track: coloured drawing of track for York and North Midland Railway showing rails fixed by covered wooden sleepers amd stone blocks, signed Robert Stephenson c.1840 | 238/241 |
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| Broad gauge locomotives dumped at Swindon after conversion of track to standard gauge in 1892(photograph) | 228 |
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| Conversion of track to standard gauge at Plymouth Millbay station (photograph) | 240 |
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| Coloured drawing of broad gauge track at Cheltenham, Great Western Union Railway | 240/241 |
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| Birmingham Curzon Street Station: plan showing separate arrival and departure stages and turntables | 242/245 |
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| Entrance to Birmingham Curzon Street Station (photograph) | 242 |
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| Birmingham New Street Station interior in 1912(photograph) | 244 |
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| Coloured drawing of engine house at Curzon Street | 244/245 |
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| Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, architectural drawing (front and side elevations | 245 |
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| Box Tunnel (text mentions myth about alignment that sun shines through it on Brunel's birthday 9 April | 246/247 |
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| J.C. Bourne coloured sketch of Box Tunnel 1846 | 246 |
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| Brunel coloured drawiing of western portal and its stone face | 247 |
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| Smith's 1845 map of railways, turnpikes and canals | 248/249 |
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| Share certificate: Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway 1846 | 249 |
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| High Level Bridge, Newcastle and Gateshead: coloured drawing signed Benjamin Lawson and John Rush, contractors to Newcastle and Berwick Railway | 250/251 | |
| Viewed from Gateshead with semaphore signals (photograph) | 250 |
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| Royal Albert Bridge: coloured diagram (elevation and general plan): Text describes how Isambard Kingdom Brunel overcame problem of crossing Tamar & linking Cornwall to Plymouth. | 252/255 |
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| August 1858 second section being constructed on river bank opposite largely completed first section (photograph) | 252 |
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| Second section lifted out of water ready to be inched into position (photograph) | 253 |
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| Detailed plan of Royal Albert Bridge showing dates of lifting two spans into position | 254/255 |
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| Elevation and plan showing Admiraly ship passing beneath | 255 |
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| Derby Works: plan of Derby Station, diesel locomotive works and motive power depot, 1955-70. Text notes Midland Railway employed 40,000 people in its Derby Works in 1900. | 256/257 |
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| Machine shop on 3 March 1920: belt-driven machinery & electric trolley to transport components (photograph) | 256 |
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| Locomotives under construction in Erecting Shop on 23 July 1910 (photograph) | 256 |
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| York Station and Tea Rooms: text York has enjoyed a close assoociation with railways since the days of George Hudson | 258 |
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| Station platform entrance to Tea Rooms (photograph); also cross-section drawings of Tea Rooms | 258/259 |
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| External elevations of York Station Tea Rooms | 260 |
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| Certificate given to E.A. Micklethwait who volunteered to staff buffet during World War 1 (coloured hotograph) | 260 |
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| Coloured plan of York Station's original main entrance and concourse | 261 |
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| Grimsby and Cleethorpes: land plan of Royal Dock at Grimsby [text makes clear both settlements product of Manchester, Sheffield & Linolnshire Railway]. | 262/265 |
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| MS&LR poster advertising cheap excursions from Manchester to Grimsby, Cleethorpes or Skegness for one week's holidays | 262 |
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| Grimsby dock offices built 1885 with line to Cleethorpes in foreground (photographed 12 October 1961) | 262 |
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| Land plan of station and gardens at Cleethorpes including mock ruins of Ross Castle | 264/265 |
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| Land plan of two stations in Grimsby for town and for the docks | 264 |
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| Cardiff General Station: sections and details of booking hall: text records slowness of building South Wales Railway and difficulties in preventing flooding at the station | 266/267 |
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| Passengers wait in main booking hall to avoid rain whilst taxis stand at rank on 17 April 1950 | 266 |
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| Aerial photograph of Cardiff's railways in 1924 prior to rebuilding station | 268 |
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| Elevations and sections of Cardiff General Station | 268/269 |
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| Forth Bridge: under construction with three cantilevers nearly complete (photograph 1888 late summer): text describes Forth Road Bridge and its replacement and Tay Bridge precursor | 270/273 |
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| Terence Cuneo poster 1952 entitled Scotland for Holidays with blue A4 crossing followed by carmine & cream train | 270 |
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| Forth Bridge: drawing (elevation and plan) colouredd to show progress towards completion | 272/273 |
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| Glasgow Central Station: Platform 1 with passengers waiting to board LNWR train: text describes Donald Matheson, chief engineer and James Miller as architect of Caledonian Rly station | 274/279 |
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| Iconic concourse with commanding manually operated departure information board | 274 |
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| Plan of Glasgow Central Station | 276/277 |
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| Caledonian Railway bridge over River Clyde (elevation) | 278/279 |
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| London Marylebone Station: plan of station & surrounding land owned by Railway: text covers Sir Edward Watkins and his ambitions which included the Channel Tunnel | 280/283 |
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| Officers of Great Central Railway gather to join first train to leave Marylebone on 10 March 1899 | 280 |
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| Approach to London Marylebone shwing where new line passed under Lord's Cricket Ground | 282/283 |
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| Railway Clearing House Map of England and Wales: in 1842 the Railway Clearing House was formed which enabled passengers and freight to make journeys over many companies | 284/285 |
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| Uncaptioned: section from RCH Map cvering WCML from south of Wigan to Tebay (also includes part of Manchester) | 284/285 |
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| Carlisle junctions in 1867 | 285 |
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| Overall RCHS map 1906 [too small to be useful] | 285 |
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| Railway Clearing House Map of London (covers quite a large area including Watford, Romford and Beckenham) | 286/287 |
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| Euston Underground Station in 1908: with electric locomotive motive power (photograph) | 288 |
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| London Waterloo Station: text: Britain's busiest station: photograph of queues in summer of 1946 for trains to West Country | 288 |
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| Painting by Terence Cuneo of Waterloo Station: concourse and station clock 1967 | 289 |
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| Crowds cheer crews of HMS Exeter and HMS Ajax after their victory after the Battle of the River Plate in 1939 past the Waterloo Victory Arch on 21 March 1921 (photograph) | 290 |
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| Waterloo Victory Arch War Memorial for LSWR employees killed during Great War opened by Queen Mary on 21 March 1921 (coloured drawing) | 290 |
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| Coloured perspective view of Waterloo Station Booking Hall 22 March 1923 | 290/291 |
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| London & South Western Railway coloured plan of Waterloo Station also shows Vauxhall Station and Necropolis Station | 292/293 |
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| Manchester Piccadilly Station: Text notes that Manchester and Birmingham Railway opened Store Street Staion in 1842 which it shared with the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway | 294/295 |
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| Doric Arch at London Euston prior to Tory government vandalism (photograph) | 294 |
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| Elevation of Piccadilly Station frontage and offices showing details of finishing | 294 |
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| Conceptual design details of modernized Manchester London Road station prior to renaming as Piccadilly | 295 |
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| The Reshaping of British Railways: text is highly critical of Richard Beeching and Ernest Marples and the highly destructive Beeching Report | 296/287 |
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| Proposed Withdrawal of Pssenger Services: map in Beeching Report: no service north of Inverness; no Central Wales line | 286 |
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| Proposal for Passenger Service Withdrawal of Inveerness to Kyle of Lochalsh, 1971 | 287 |
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| Serpell Report Map which killed any notion of network: Plymouth of no strategic value | 287 |
Footnotes
1. Type illustrated is a Stanier Black Five
4-6-0: drawing is of an Ivatt modified version with Caprotti
rotary cam valve gear and double chimney
2. Locomotive illustrated was one of very small number
sold to London Transport's Engineering Department
3. Very interesting drawing, but why is it on an "LMS page?":
it even has a Bugatti-style streamlining 21 February 1945