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Our archive and library collections
Our archives hold the 'raw materials' of railway history: letters, technical reports, engineering drawings and much more.
Working drawings for steam locos, carriages and wagons.
Drawings and business records.
Revealing personal records.
Loco design, performance, testing and history.
We have an extensive collection of timetables from 1839 up to the present day.
We have approximately 20,000 books in the Book Collection, spanning pre-railway history up to the present day.
We have a collection of around 800 journals (or 'serials') – and we're still collecting 300 of them today.
Of interest to family historians.
Safety booklets, holiday guides, and 100s of maps and plans.
Lists of over 1.75 million images from the 1850s to today.
Everything from railway tickets to fabrics used to furnish carriages.
Search Engine is open for research and questions every day at York. Just drop in.
Discover the 1000s of locomotives, models, signals, timepieces, posters and other objects preserved in our collection.
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