Kathleen Bushnell (1920-2005), booking office clerk, Southern Railway at Coulsdon North: handwritten notebook, kept during the Second World War, and used when undergoing training at East Croydon, incl written instructions for carrying out all the duties involved in being a booking clerk 1940-1943 (2019-338)
Jeremiah Head (1835-1899), employee at Robert Stephenson and Co., locomotive manufacturing company, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: diary, detailing a variety of projects for the company, incl locomotive projects, the design and build of two compound mill engines for Henry Pease & Co and Annandale and Sons; work to reconstruct Rowland Burden's cast iron bridge over the River Wear; and design of a steam plough based on an idea conceived by John Fowler, mentioned numerous times in the diary; also documents meetings and social events with prominent railway individuals 1857-1858 (2019-101 / HEAD)
Leonard Raisbeck (c1773-1845), railway promoter, lawyer and landowner: archive of correspondence, manuscript and printed material rel to the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1773-1845 (2019-394)
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