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The site was launched in April 2010 with a limited range of reproduction maps from the Manchester and Southampton Railway plans of 1846. The selection includes towns and villages in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

 

Also featured are the original civil engineering records for the construction of part of the London and Birmingham Railway between Watford Tunnel and Tring - with a detailed historic description of the building of Northchurch Tunnel, Berkhamsted.

 

June 2010 : A more extensive range of maps and locations betwen Southampton and Cheltenham has now been added.

 

The very latest addition is an article on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following railway accidents in the late nineteenth century.

   

July 2010: The plans for Gorton Depot, Manchester from the 1840's.

 

October 2010:  A series of letters, from 1879, from the Great Northern Railway's, Chief Civil Engineer, Richard Johnson, regarding acceptance of tenders, and directions to start works, on a new Goods Shed, offices, platform roof and associated infrastructure, at the company's Nottingham (London Road) Station. The contents of the correspondences is transcribed before the originals finally disintegrate.

 

Early 2011

An article on the then unrecognised phenomena of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following railway accidents in the nineteeth century.

 

October 2011

The transcript, from The London Illustrated News, of the railway disaster at Hexthorpe, near Doncaster, which occured on 16'th September 1887; with pictures from that newspaper. All the grim details. There is more here than Wikipedia have of the event.

 

I also have images of the structures of the Wigan Wallgate station and stations on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in the Wigan area, e.g. Ince, Hindley, Gathurst, Appley Bridge, Burscough Bridge from the 1880's. 

 

Let me know if you have any specific interests amongst these items and I will expedite them.