RH - Railways: Historical Topics
RH037 The Norfolk Railway
NEW JANUARY 2016. This is the book 'The First Railway in Norfolk' by George Dow, published by the LN..
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RH038 The Continent via Harwich 1927
NEW FEBRUARY 2016. This account of the LNER ferry services from Harwich was a paper given befo..
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RH039: Air Raid Precautions, LNER 1940.
UPDATED JANUARY 2024.. This is circular A.R.P.2 issued by the LNER in December 1940. Its purpo..
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RH040 Gt Yarmouth Quay Tramways Bye-Laws
NEW APRIL 2016. This is a selection of proclamations by "the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of ..
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RH041 Proposed South Norfolk Light Railway 1898
NEW APRIL 2016. A copy of the 40-page 1898 Act authorising the South Norfolk Light Railway. Th..
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RH042 The West Highland Railway
NEW MAY 2016. This is certainly not in our area! It relates to what is for us a distant outpost of t..
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RH043 Old London Coaching Inns
NEW MAY 2016. This is a small hard-backed book, published by the LMS but undated. Its full title is ..
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RH044 The LTSR Centenary 1956.
NEW AUGUST 2016. In February 1956 the Eastern Region of British Railways published a three-fold leaf..
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RH045 Transport and the 1953 Floods
NEW AUGUST 2017. This is an article entitled ''Transport and the February Floods' which appeared in ..
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RH046 The M&GN and its Locomotives - Part 1
NEW OCTOBER 2017. In 1921 and 1922 the Locomotive Magazine featured a major series entitled 'T..
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RH047 The M&GN and its Locomotives - Part 2
NEW OCTOBER 2017. In 1921 and 1922 the Locomotive Magazine featured a major series entitled 'T..
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RH048 The East Anglian Railway
NEW OCTOBER 2017. The East Anglian Railway was one of the constituent companies which formed t..
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RH049 The Northern and Eastern Railway and the Norfolk Railway
NEW OCTOBER 2017. The Northern and Eastern Railway was responsible for building the line throu..
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RH050 The ECR, L&BR and N&ER in 1842
NEW NOVEMBER 2017. These are pages from the book 'The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland' b..
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RH051 The Railways of East Anglia in 1849
NEW DECEMBER 2017. Harry Scrivenor was Secretary to the Liverpool Stock Exchange. He produced ..
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RH052 George Hudson - a near-contemporary account
NEW DECEMBER 2017. George Hudson of York, nicknamed 'The Railway King', was one of the earlies..
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RH053 The Development of Railways in Britain
NEW JANUARY 2018. In 1945 Collins published a small hardback book in its series 'Britain in Pictures..
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RH054 Britain's Railways at the End of World War Two.
NEW JANUARY 2018. This is the book "It can now be revealed: more about British railways in peace and..
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RH055 The Mistley, Thorpe and Walton Railway
NEW JANUARY 2018. The Act for the building of the Mistley, Thorpe and Walton Railway was passed in 1..
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RH056 Facts about Britain's Railways 1936
NEW JANUARY 2018. This is a small 32-page card-covered booklet produced jointly by the four main rai..
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RH057 Facts about Britain's Railways 1942
NEW FEBRUARY 2018. This is a little-known publication in the same series as RH056, but with one huge..
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RH058 Facts about Britain's Railways 1943
NEW FEBRUARY 2018. This is the 1943 edition of the series of annual booklets giving facts about the ..
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RH059 The Predecessors of the GER
NEW FEBRUARY 2018. Over the years 1913 to 1915, the GER Magazine published a series of fourteen illu..
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RH060 Extracts from the Railway Yearbook for 1904 and 1905
NEW FEBRUARY 2018. G A Sekon used to publish an annual Railway Yearbook. This file consists of 118 p..
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RH061 'They Carry the Goods', 1940s
NEW JULY 2018. At some date apparently in the mid-1940s, Longmans Green produced a series of b..
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RH062 BR Facts and Figures 1966
NEW JULY 2018. This is a 44-page booklet presented here as two-page spreads. Its title is 'Fac..
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RH063 Facts and Figures about British Railways 1951
NEW JANUARY 2019. Facts and Figures about British Railways 1951, which it describes as the bus..
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RH064 Facts and Figures about British Railways 1957
NEW JANUARY 2019. Facts and Figures about British Railways 1957. This report is described as the sta..
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RH065 The Opening of the Jubilee Line 1979
NEW JANUARY 2019. This is the official programme for the opening of the Jubilee Line by Prince Charl..
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RH066 The London and Blackwall Railway
NEW MARCH 2019. The Railway Magazine for May 1927 included an article on the London and Blackwall Ra..
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RH067 James Holden
NEW APRIL 2019. James Holden was the GER's Locomotive Superintendent from 1885 to 1907. The main par..
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RH068 The collision at Trowse, 1949
NEW MARCH 2020. On a dark Thursday morning in February 1949 there was an accident at Trowse, just ou..
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RH069 Rules of the ECR Volunteer Rifles 1859
NEW APRIL 2020. This is a 26-page booklet giving the rules of the Eastern Counties Railway Volunteer..
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RH070 LT&SR Agreements with the East & West India Dock Company
NEW APRIL 2020. This is an eighty-page leather-bound book describing the agreements between the Lond..
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RH071 BR Facts and Figures 1978
NEW MAY 2020. This is a 66-page booklet presented here as two-page spreads. It is called 'British Ra..
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RH072 BR Facts and Figures 1980
NEW MAY 2020. This is a 70-page booklet presented here in single-page views. It is called 'British R..
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RH073 The Southwold Railway
NEW MAY 2020. This purchase will give you access to five files to download. File (a) is a five-page..
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RH074 The Newmarket and Chesterford Railway
NEW MAY 2020. In 1845 the Newmarket Railway was established to link the town to Great Chesterford on..
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RH075 Derailment on the Norfolk Railway near Thetford, 1845.
NEW MAY 2020. On Christmas Eve 1845 the 11.15 am up train from Norwich came off the track when trave..
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RH076: Railway Time 1845 and Daylight Saving Time 1916.
NEW JUNE 2020. The country did not have a uniform national time before the coming of the railways. W..
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RH077: Railway Facts and Figures up to 1848.
NEW JUNE 2020. The first three pages consist of a report read at a meeting of the British Associatio..
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RH078: Parliament and the Railways in the 1840s.
NEW JUNE 2020. This comprises three items from The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Scientifi..
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RH079: The London and Blackwall Railway in the 1840s.
NEW JUNE 2020. The London and Blackwall Railway opened in 1840. It was only the third railway to ser..
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RH080: Railway Pride and Prejudice, Halstead 1946.
NEW JUNE 2020. In 1946 Thomas B Peacock wrote his classic booklet on the never-to-be-built Mistley, ..
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RH081: Railways in East Anglia - contemporary news reports 1839-1850.
NEW JUNE 2020. The monthly Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Scientific and Railway Gazette ap..
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RH082: The Norfolk Railway Society 1955-1995.
NEW JUNE 2020. The Norfolk Railway Society was formed in 1955. It issued a monthly Newsletter. To ma..
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RH083: The Collision of the Night Mail at Witham, 1950.
NEW JULY 2020. This is the official report into the accident which happened near Witham in the early..
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RH084: Under the Griffin's Wing: a Norwich Life.
NEW NOVEMBER 2020. This is the title of a 224-page book which has recently been published.&nbs..
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RH085: The Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway, 1885.
NEW DECEMBER 2020. Back in 1865 powers were obtained for the Great Eastern and the Midland Railway C..
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RH086: The Soham Explosion, LNER 1944.
NEW MARCH 2021. In Soham during the early hours of 2 June 1944 the first wagon on a train carrying b..
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