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This is a personal, or hobby, website devoted to my interest in British railway history. It is based around a relatively small collection of railway related documents that I've accumulated over the years. 

 

I find this material fascinating as a record of how some of Britain’s railways were planned, built and modified. Interwoven with the civil engineering information is a social history and human story. 

 

I've put the material on line should there be any others out there with a shared passion for this aspect of our railway heritage. I've made copies of some of the items available for purchase. Depending upon the nature of the material it is offered either as a quality reproduction print (ideal for framing) or in digital format on DVD or via e-mail. Other items are articles I've written myself, purely for the fun of it. These are based on a sort of DIY home historical research. Yet others are simple transcriptions of historical accounts.

 

 

The current items featured include:

 

-   Plans for the Manchester and Southampton Railway of 1846. 

     This was the forerunner of the Midland and South Western Junction Railway.

 

-   Some of the original build records of the London and Birmingham Railway from 1836/7.

 

-   The Great Western Railway 1879.

 

-    Altnabreac Station: its conversion from the Highland Railway to the LMS.

 

-   Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following Railway Accidents in the nineteenth century.

 

-   Gorton Depot, technical drawings of the proposed works from 1847. The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. 

 

-   Great Northern Railway - Nottingham, 1879. Letters relating to new structures.

 

-    The Hexthorpe (near Doncaster) railway disaster 1887;

      a contemporary article of the accident from the Illustrated London News.

 

-   Correspondence from Joseph Whitworth & Co. to Daniel Gooch 1842.

    This relates to the shipment of equipment for the fitting out of Swindon Works.

 

The village of Colesbourne, Gloucestershire, from the Manchester and Southampton Railway plans of 1846.The plans for the Manchester and Southampton Railway of 1846. A set of 60 maps showing the course of the railway from Southampton to Cheltenham.Marlborough 1846 - from the plans of the Manchester and Southampton Railway.
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