Catalogue description Railway Company Prospectuses

This collection comprises prospectuses and other material for the following Railway companies Manchester and Leeds 1836; North Midland c1836; Huddersfield and East and West Coasts Direct 1845; Great Northern and Southern Direct, from Huddersfield to Derby c1845; East and West Yorkshire Junction, Harrogate, Knaresborough and York 1845; Great Grimsby, Sheffield, the Potteries, and Grand Junction 1845; Pontefract, Doncaster, Worksop and Mansfield Junction c1845; Lincoln and Wakefield 1844; Leeds and Bradford Direct, Atmospheric 1846; Goole, Doncaster and Sheffield and Manchester Junction c1845; Great North of England and Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Junction c1845; Doncaster, North Midland and Goole c1845; Hull, Sheffield and Midland Direct 1845; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction c1845; West Yorkshire c1845; Newark and Sheffield 1844; Rotherham, Bawtry and Gainsbrough Junction 1844; Buxton, Macclesfield, Stockport and Warrington 1845; Grand Junction and Midlands Union 1845; Lincoln, York and Leeds Direct and Independent c1845; Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Junction c1845; Direct Sheffield and York and Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Junction c1845; Manchester, Leeds and Goole 1836; Pontefract, Doncaster, Worksop and Mansfield Junction c1845; Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle c1845; Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton with direct line from Derby to Rugby 1845; Leeds and Selby 1821; Leeds, Pontefract and Sheffield Junction 1874; Leeds, Thirsk and Northallerton 1844; Castleford and Pontefract c1860s; Rotherham and Bawtry 1881; York, Epworth and Owston 1883; Tickhill, Rotherham and Bawtry 1880; Shrewsbury and Hereford, statement of promoters 1846; Barnsley Junction 1843; Hull, Barnsley and West Riding Junction Railway and Dock 1880; Trent Valley, Midlands and Grand Junction 1845; Kirkcaldy and District 1889; Leeds, York and Midland Junction 1846; General Canal Steam Haulage c1845; Stockton and Darlington 1841; Leeds and Selby 1829; Wakefield and Lincoln and Lincoln and Nottingham 1844; Tees and Weardale c1830.

This collection also includes Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, extension to London Bill, circulars 1891; road, canal, river or railway traffic, rules and instructions for station clerks by Richard Bayldon of Hunslet nd; circular regarding railway testimonial to George Hudson with list subscriptions 1845; Leeds, sharebrokers, circular as to railway shares 1843; Edinburgh and Glasgow and Scottish Central Amalgamation Bill statement 1846.

Goodchild, John, fl 20th century, historian

• Bayldon, Richard, fl 19th century of Hunslet
• Hudson, George, 1800-1871, called the Railway King
• Railway transport