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)
18. SHARE CALL RECEIPTS SHARE CERTIFICATES AND SHAREHOLDER DOCUMENTATION
19. SECRETARY'S OFFICE correspondence numbered forms and circulars
20. DIVIDEND STATEMENTS
21. GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE correspondence numbered forms and circulars
22. GENERAL MANAGER'S ORDERS
23. NOTICES TO DRIVERS AND FIREMEN ETC
24. MATERIAL RELATING TO HOTELS AND SHIPPING
25. HANDBILLS
26. PUBLICITY MATERIAL
27. INSURANCE OFFICE AND AMBULANCE COMMITTEE material
28. ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT correspondence and numbered forms
29. ESTATE DEPARTMENT correspondence and plans
30. SIGNAL & TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT material
31. ACCOUNTANT'S DEPARTMENT correspondence numbered forms and circulars
32. STORES DEPARTMENT material
33. LOCOMOTIVE DEPARTMENT correspondence and numbered forms
34. CARRIAGE AND WAGON DEPARTMENT material
35. MINERAL MANAGER'S DEPARTMENT correspondence and numbered forms
36. NOTICES TO GUARDS relating to goods trains south of Leicester issued to a Mr Butterfield 1867-68
37. WEEKLY NOTICES TO ENGINE DRIVERS ETC
38. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LINE numbered circulars
39. SPECIAL TRAFFIC NOTICES AND MEMOS in relation to the Miners Strike 1912
40. MATERIAL RELATING TO SOCIAL & WELFARE ACTIVITIES
41. EARLY FORMS AND LATER UN-NUMBERED FORMS
42. CONSTITUENT COMPANY MATERIAL
43. JOINT LINE MATERIAL
44. BURTON AND ASHBY LIGHT RAILWAY MATERIAL
45. DIRECTORS REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF HALF YEARLY/ANNUAL MEETINGS
46. CARRIERS NOTES
47. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LINE correspondence un-numbered forms, circulars and numbered forms
48. WEEKLY NOTICES OF EXCURSIONS/SPECIAL TRAIN TIMETABLES
49. MARSHALLING LOADING AND STATION INSTRUCTIONS
50. ROYAL TRAIN MATERIAL
51. PERSONAL RECORDS AND EVENTS
52. GENERAL MANAGER'S CIRCULARS regarding Foot & Mouth Disease 1883
53. GLOUCESTER NEW DOCKS BRANCH sale of land Higford to Midland Railway correspondence 24th May 1895 to 16th May 1900
54. GOODS MANAGER'S CIRCULARS
55. GOODS MANAGER'S DEPARTMENT AND DISTRICT GOODS MANAGERS' numbered forms and correspondence
56. BURTON GOODS DEPARTMENT staff appointments and advances records 1865 to 1908
57. PHOTOGRAPHS
58. THE GEORGE DOW / R.E. LACEY archive consisting of notes drawings microfiche negatives and other source material relating to Midland Railway carriages
59. THE SHELFORD ARCHIVE of notes and photographs of Midland Railway and constituent companies locomotives
60. INTER COMPANY AGREEMENTS
61. SIDING AGREEMENTS
62. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS
63. SCHEDULE OF DEEDS handed to Midland Railway Company by Beale & Co (Solicitors) at various dates between 1886 and 1903
64. ACCIDENT REPORTS relating to the Midland Railway and its constituents
65. CONTRACTS SPECIFICATIONS and similar material relating to purchases and works
66. MISCELLANEOUS LARGE FORMAT NOTICES ETC
67. TICKETS

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