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Major accessions to repositories in 2000 relating to Transport

Local

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

  • British Railways Board: records rel to the Aylesbury-Buckingham Railway and the Wycombe Extension Railway 1852-1911 (D/X 1524)

Cornwall Record Office

  • Cornwall Railway Company: business records 1844-95 (AD1334)

Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Barrow

  • Board of Trade: plans of foreshore in Furness area showing transport links, electricity supply and harbour development 1853-1988

Derbyshire Record Office

  • British Railways Property Board: files rel to Derbyshire properties 1929-70 (D5333)

Devon Record Office

  • Meldon Viaduct Co Ltd, Okehampton: corresp, plans, surveys, contracts, photographs 1924-97 (6028)

East Kent Archives Centre

  • Dover, Ramsgate and Folkestone crew lists (RGS)

Essex Record Office

  • Corringham Light Railway: photographs, press cuttings, etc (D/F 236; A10523)

Flintshire Record Office

  • Flintshire railways: registers of trains at signal boxes at stations 1995-98 (1212)

Glamorgan Record Office

  • John Andrews: tram and bus history research papers 20th cent

Guildhall Library

  • Charles Cox & Sons, marine and navy agents, London: letters from clients 1798-1859 (Ms 31715/1-8)

Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon Record Office

  • Welsh Highland Railway Heritage Group: records (XD 117)

Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre

  • Hammersmith & City Railway Co, London: deeds, plans and papers 1859-1938 (A2000/34)

Joint Archive Service of the Corporation of London: London Metropolitan Archives

  • British Railways Board (addnl): agreements, petitions, briefs and memoranda of the North Metropolitan Railway, Metropolitan District Railway and Metropolitan and Thames Valley Railway 1853-1926 (B00/120)
  • London Regional Passenger Committee (addnl): case files 1994-98 (B00/055)

Lambeth Archives Department

  • Clapham Against Trunking: papers rel to local campaign against road building (2000/71)

Lancashire Record Office

  • G Biddle: research notes and materials rel to an unpublished history of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal 18th-20th cent (DDX 2253)

Liverpool Record Office

  • Riverside Railway Co Ltd: plans, corresp and reports rel to proposed narrow gauge railway c1980-89 (Acc. 5404)

Merseyside Record Office

  • Mersey Railway: corresp, proposals and plans rel to Mersey Railway Extensions 1971-78 (Acc 2000/9)

North Yorkshire County Record Office

  • Richmond Highway Board: minutes and accounts 1867-95 (BH/RM)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Nottingham Aviation Society: membership papers and other records 1970-92 (DD 2228)

Tameside Archive Service

  • Manchester and Ashton-under-Lyne Turnpike Trust: minutes, letter books and plans 1851-77 (Acc2903)

The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland

  • Bamford Bros, motor garage and haulage contractors, Leicester: balance sheets 1921-45 (DE 5836)
  • British Railways Property Board: files rel to properties in Rutland 1911-61 (DE 5879)

Walsall Local History Centre

  • Motor Cycle Mart, Walsall: records (Acc 996)

Warwickshire County Record Office

  • Automotive Products Ltd, Leamington Spa (addnl): employees record cards, apprentices files, misc papers and photographs 1926-96 (CR 3581, 3639)
  • Rugby, Leamington and Warwick Railway: statements, briefs and proofs of evidence opposing the line of the railway through Leamington Priors 1846 (CR 3658)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

  • Liversedge township: highway surveyors accounts 1866-67 (KC987)

Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office

  • British Rail (Western Region): agreements for sidings, advertisements 1847-1983 (2515)

Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies

  • Cannock Chase Railway Extension: misc papers 1857-1909 (DX-619)

National

National Archives of Scotland

  • Border Counties Railway: register of shareholders 1860 (BR/BCS/2/3)

National Museums Liverpool, Maritime Archives and Library

  • Lagoon (British & African Steam Navigation Co vessel): logbooks, schedules, manifests, etc 1909-10 (DX/1902)
  • Board of Trade: report on the loss of the emigrant ship Annie Jane and related papers 1854 (DX/1903)

National Railway Museum Library and Archives

  • Great Eastern Railway Co: railway engineering drawings c1850-1925 (2000-8090)
  • Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co: locomotive engineering drawings c1850-1968 (2000-8037)
  • Lancaster & Yorkshire Railway Co: passenger carriage design drawings and technical memoranda 1880-1908 (2000-8190)
  • London & North Western Railway Co: locomotive engineering drawings c1857-1950 (2000-7835)
  • Midland & Great Northern Railway Co: locomotive engineering drawings c1881-1936 (2000-8035)
  • Midland Railway Co: locomotive engineering drawings c1874-1963 (2000-7702)
  • North East Railway Co: locomotive engineering drawings c1883-1949 (2000-8042)
  • North Staffordshire Railway Co: railway vehicle engineering drawings early 20th cent (2000-8056)

Science Museum Library

  • Lawrence Dalton: records of motor car body production of various British coachbuilding companies (MS 2109)

University

London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives Division

  • LSE Geography Department: data rel to survey of taxi availablity in central London 1969-70 (COLL MISC 1035)

University of Bristol Information Services: Special Collections

  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel: letter (1) to Captain JLA Simmons regarding safety of South Devon Railway 1853 (DM 1875)

Warwick University: Modern Records Centre

  • International Transport Workers Federation (addnl): a note on Americans and the ITF by Harold Lewis, former General Secretary of the ITF (MSS 159)
  • Transport and General Workers Union (addnl): records, incl those of predecessor unions (MSS 126)