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 INVENTORY

The following is the list of the collection inventory section headings at the time of establishment of the Trust. All items in the collection will eventually appear on the database and during the course of making the entries these headings are being modified to enable a more logical system to be used when searching the database. For progress on the detailed cataloguing onto the database see the Study Centre section.
  1. THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS
  2. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT
  3. NUMBERED FORMS (STATION OF ORIGIN)
  4. NUMBERED FORMS (PF PB GF GB LGF)
  5. OFFICIAL & COMMERCIAL POSTCARDS
  6. SECONDARY REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
  7. POSTERS & POSTER TIMETABLES
  8. WORKING TIMETABLES & APPENDICES
  9. PUBLIC TIMETABLES & SHEET TIMETABLES
  10. OFFICIAL GUIDES
  11. RULE BOOKS
  12. SIGNAL BOX DIAGRAMS & SIGNAL LAYOUT PLANS
  13. MAPS PLANS & GRADIENT DIAGRAMS ETC (Folded / Bound Volumes)
  14. MAPS PLANS & MISCELLANEOUS DRAWINGS
  15. LUGGAGE & PARCEL LABELS
  16. WAGON LABELS
  17. BIRMINGHAM & GLOUCESTER RAILWAY early correspondence with Charles Sturge (1830's)

An intriguing use for a seat from a Midland Railway pullman car: part of a combined scales and height measuring device believed to have been used in the Derby works medical centre. An original pullman chair is preserved in the collection.
  1. SHARE CALL RECEIPTS SHARE CERTIFICATES AND SHAREHOLDER DOCUMENTATION
  2. SECRETARY'S OFFICE correspondence numbered forms and circulars
  3. DIVIDEND STATEMENTS
  4. GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE correspondence numbered forms and circulars
  5. GENERAL MANAGER'S ORDERS
  6. NOTICES TO DRIVERS AND FIREMEN ETC
  7. MATERIAL RELATING TO HOTELS AND SHIPPING
  8. HANDBILLS
  9. PUBLICITY MATERIAL
  10. INSURANCE OFFICE AND AMBULANCE COMMITTEE material
  11. ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT correspondence and numbered forms
  12. ESTATE DEPARTMENT correspondence and plans
  13. SIGNAL & TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT material
  14. ACCOUNTANT'S DEPARTMENT correspondence numbered forms and circulars
  15. STORES DEPARTMENT material
  16. LOCOMOTIVE DEPARTMENT correspondence and numbered forms
  17. CARRIAGE AND WAGON DEPARTMENT material
  18. MINERAL MANAGER'S DEPARTMENT correspondence and numbered forms
  19. NOTICES TO GUARDS relating to goods trains south of Leicester issued to a Mr Butterfield 1867-68
  20. WEEKLY NOTICES TO ENGINE DRIVERS ETC
  21. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LINE numbered circulars
  22. SPECIAL TRAFFIC NOTICES AND MEMOS in relation to the Miners Strike 1912
  23. MATERIAL RELATING TO SOCIAL & WELFARE ACTIVITIES
  24. EARLY FORMS AND LATER UN-NUMBERED FORMS
  25. CONSTITUENT COMPANY MATERIAL
  26. JOINT LINE MATERIAL
  27. BURTON AND ASHBY LIGHT RAILWAY MATERIAL
  28. DIRECTORS REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF HALF YEARLY/ANNUAL MEETINGS
  29. CARRIERS NOTES
  30. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LINE correspondence un-numbered forms, circulars and numbered forms
  31. WEEKLY NOTICES OF EXCURSIONS/SPECIAL TRAIN TIMETABLES
  32. MARSHALLING LOADING AND STATION INSTRUCTIONS
  33. ROYAL TRAIN MATERIAL
  34. PERSONAL RECORDS AND EVENTS
  35. GENERAL MANAGER'S CIRCULARS regarding Foot & Mouth Disease 1883
  36. GLOUCESTER NEW DOCKS BRANCH sale of land Higford to Midland Railway correspondence 24th May 1895 to 16th May 1900
  37. GOODS MANAGER'S CIRCULARS
  38. GOODS MANAGER'S DEPARTMENT AND DISTRICT GOODS MANAGERS' numbered forms and correspondence
  39. BURTON GOODS DEPARTMENT staff appointments and advances records 1865 to 1908
  40. PHOTOGRAPHS
  41. THE GEORGE DOW / R.E. LACEY archive consisting of notes drawings microfiche negatives and other source material relating to Midland Railway carriages
  42. THE SHELFORD ARCHIVE of notes and photographs of Midland Railway and constituent companies locomotives
  43. INTER COMPANY AGREEMENTS
  44. SIDING AGREEMENTS
  45. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS
  46. SCHEDULE OF DEEDS handed to Midland Railway Company by Beale & Co (Solicitors) at various dates between 1886 and 1903
  47. ACCIDENT REPORTS relating to the Midland Railway and its constituents
  48. CONTRACTS SPECIFICATIONS and similar material relating to purchases and works
  49. MISCELLANEOUS LARGE FORMAT NOTICES ETC
  50. TICKETS
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