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NPR - National Corporation: Railways - 19th century-21st century

1 - Staff and employment records - 1846-1983

2 - Operational records - 1877-1964

4 - Corporate records

5 - Internal administration - 1841-1986

6 - Premises and property records - 1853-1969

7 - Accounting and financial records - 1854-1925

8 - Legal - 1838-1969

9 - Plans

1 - Engineering plans

1 - Stations and buildings

2 - Bridges, tunnels, footbridges, culverts and viaducts

3 - Signalling plans and diagrams

4 - Inspection sketches and signaling estimates - 1875-1935

5 - Line widening

6 - Schools

7 - Track maintenance schedule plans

8 - Accident diagrams

9 - Other engineering works

1 - Abersychan extension railways - 1874

2 - Aintree sorting sidings - 1946

3 - Ashburys to Reddish Line - c 1900

4 - Bacup, closing of Motive Power Depot - 1950

5 - Barrow-In-Furness - Buccleuch Junction - 1964

6 - Batley Station, levels of roads in station area - 1885

7 - Birkdale outfall sewer - 1904

8 - Birkenhead Docks - 1860-1861

9 - Birkenhed Docks - 1863-1873

10 - Birkenhead, Green Lane Junction to Woodside and docks - 1924

11 - Birkenhead, Morpeth Dock - 1869

12 - Birkenhead, track plan of Goods Extension line - 1905

13 - Birmingham area, Saltley Duddeston road junction - 1938

14 - Blunham - Bedford to Sandy Lane proposed extension of loop at Blunham - n.d.

15 - Bolton to Manchester line - 1950

16 - Bredbury- New Mills- Hayfield line - n.d.

17 - Broad Street (London) 'A' Hoist - 1925

18 - Broad Street (London), various - 1909-1925

19 - Burton branches - n.d.

20 - Buxton Station - 1911-1914

21 - Buxton and High Peak Junctions - 1874

22 - Cambridge branch - n.d.

23 - Cannock Chase, subsidence due to Cannock and Rugeley colliery companies workings - 1939

24 - Carnforth, modernisation - 1938-1942

25 - Cheadle Heath North- alterations to track layout - 1919

26 - Cheadle to Stockport [various along this stretch of line] - 1950s

27 - Chester to Connahs Quay Line - 1890

28 - Chester (No.5), new track layout - n.d.

29 - Chester Road station, Sutton Coldfield; line section - undated

30 - Chesterfield Loop (Derbyshire Lines) - c 1900

31 - Clifton Junction - 1954

32 - Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith Railway, station track plans - 1925

33 - Cornbrook sidings and Cheshire Lines Committee boundaries - 1909

34 - Crewe track plans - 1914

35 - Crigglestone Station to Royston Junction - c 1955

36 - Curthwaite (Maryport and Carlisle Railway), Creeps nos. 98 and 99 - n.d.

37 - Denton - 1954

38 - Dewsnap sidings, Guide Bridge - 1952

39 - Edge Hill sidings - c 1931

40 - Edge Hill, old exhibition ground - 1915-1917

41 - Edge Hill, track plan and road- Waterloo Independent Goods Line - 1922

42 - Edge Hill, lines, gradients, signals - 1922

43 - Edge Hill; lines, gradients, signals, cabins - 1922

44 - Egerton Dock, Birkenhead - 1874-1878

45 - Erewash Valley Minerals Railway (Shipley Gate to Langley Mill) - 1914

46 - Fleetwood , Wyre Dock general layout - n.d.

47 - Garston Dock area track and land plan - n.d.

48 - Garston Docks sidings and estate - n.d.

49 - Glazebrook to Wigan proposed line - c 1894

49 - Gravelly Hill, line section - n.d.

50 - Gloucester; Hempstead Branch sidings - 1943-1948

51 - Gowhole sidings - 1954

52 - Grassmoor Colliery Branch Line (Derbyshire Lines) - c1900

54 - Greenfield, rearrangement of junction - 1895

55 - Grotton and Springhead, proposed siding connection for the Springhead Spinning Co Ltd - 1907

56 - Guide Bridge, provision of engine changing facilities - 1953

57 - Halewood area- Cheshire Lines Committee line - c 1880

58 - Halewood sidings, tracks plan and storage capacities - 1947-1962

59 - Handforth, proposed new W D sidings and loading dock for AFVs - 1952

60 - Hartford junction, private siding for ICI Ltd - 1952

61 - Hazel Grove line - 1917

62 - Higher Buxton line - n.d.

63 - Hindley Station to De Trafford Junction, permanent way survey - 1948

64 - Irlam and Cadishead Station, new works schemes - 1955

65 - Kensington, Olympia; survey and cross sections - 1956

66 - Killamarsh branch - Kiveton Park colliery proposed tipping siding and general layout - 1948-1949

67 - Lancaster (Poulton), location of sewers and track layout - 1936

68 - Liverpool Docks connections - c1923-1935

69 - Liverpool district, classification of lines diagram - 1950

70 - Liverpool district, gang diagrams - 1953-1954

71 - Liverpool Overhead Railway - 1892

72 - London extension, Annesley to Nottingham section - 1901

73 - Low Gill, road constructed in vicinity - 1892

74 - Macclesfield branch railway plan - 1918

75 - Manchester area - 1911

76 - Meols Cop, proposed additional accomodation at Southport Corporation Sidings - c 1923

77 - Manchester to Newton line - n.d.

78 - Markham Colliery Branch Line (Derbyshire Line) - c 1900

79 - Middlewood Curve - 1904

80 - Mossley Blackrock, acquisition of land - 1897-1898

81 - New Biggin, (Carlisle to Long Marton) proposed additional sidings - n.d.

82 - Northwich, proposed new turntable - 1942

83 - Oldham, Central- Clegg Street, Mumps & Glodwick Road lines - 1949

84 - Oldham, general layout of Clegg street and Glodwick road sidings - n.d.

85 - Penclawdd - Branch extension inclination, horizontal and cross sections - 1874

86 - Plumpton, proposed pipe drain - 1920

87 - Poynton, removal of Lord vernon's siding - 1948

88 - Reddish South, Standard Railway Wagon Company Ltd private siding agreement plan - n.d.

89 - Reddish-Romiley-Brinnington line - c 1900

90 - Rugby District, operating managers district omnibus telephone facilities - n.d.

91 - Saltney Junction - 1900

92 - Sandhills track plan - 1901-1905

93 - Sandhills Station track plans - n.d.

94 - Scorton, slewing of lines - 1903

95 - Smethwick Galton Junction, limits of maintenance - 1887

96 - Soho, sidings - n.d.

97 - Speke, MPD modernisation, trial borehole - 1952

98 - St Helens, siding accomodation for Pilkingtons - 1912-1914

99 - Stourton, re-alignment of main lines. connections and marshalling yard - n.d.

100 - Sumerstown, hydraulic pumps - 1924

101 - Tebay, water supply - 1887

102 - Tewkesbury and Malvern line - 1937

103 - Tewkesbury Quay, proposed remodelling of layout - 1946

104 - Toton downside - 1965

105 - Toton up and down sidings - 1949-1967

106 - Wallasey - Contract drawings works between Red Noses and West of Harrison drive - 1934

107 - Wansford - 1914

108 - Wansford, proposed siding to Mr N Walls stone quarry - 1936

109 - Warrington Bank Quay, renewal of way - 1970

110 - Warrington sidings, track plan for relaying details - 1947

111 - West Midlands & Connahs Quay line; Broughton, Wrexham, Brymbo, Ffrwd, Buckley-Hawarden - 1907

112 - Widnes Railway - c1900

113 - Willesden to Wembley, alterations and additions - 1903

114 - Willington and Blunham (Bedford and Cambridge Line), new loops and lengthening of existing loops - n.d.

115 - Wilmslow and Levenshulme Railway - n.d.

116 - Winnington branch, private sidings for ICI Ltd accommodation for shunters and carriage and wagon staff at Oakleigh sidings - 1952

117 - Winsford Goods Station, plan of sidings - 1925

118 - Witton, showing line of 4" pipe - n.d.

119 - Wolverton and Stoneystratford tramway - Tramcar axlebox - 1920

120 - Woodhead line alterations - n.d.

121 - Various, mining diagrams - 1909-1936

122 - Plan of 20 ton wagon - 1948

123 - Signal Box Stove (The Dreadnought) - 1942

124 - Tablet exchanging apparatus - n.d.

125 - Plan of timber signal box - 1948

126 - Control diagram book of Cheshire Lines Committee System - 1944

127 - Control diagram of Cheshire Lines Committee system showing stations and junctions - n.d.

128 - Standard 10" water column - 1915

129 - Locomotive built by Tayleure & Co (Vulcan Foundry) - 1839

130 - Locomotives and tender drawings - 1854-1899

131 - Railway No. 8 Harrow-Finchley Road - 1907

2 - Estate plans

3 - Deposited Parliamentary plans

4 - Books of reference - 1864-1950

10 - Ephemera - 1899-1904