Senior Archive and Library Assistant Peter Thorpe highlights our Inreach service, an invaluable resource for those that cannot make a research visit.
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Category: Collections
Remembering Fallen Railway Workers
As Remembrance Sunday approaches, Senior Library and Archive Assistant Peter Thorpe highlights how railway companies commemorated fallen railway workers from the First World War.
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A class of his own: George Ottley and our library classification system
Senior Library and Archive Assistant Peter Thorpe explains our library classification system, adapted from a design created originally be George Ottley.
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What is the Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board?
Railway Heritage Registrar Annie Brooke Lang and RHDAB co-chair Tim Dugher provide an insight into how railway-related objects are designated.
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‘Begs Leave to Inform’: Transcribing John Graham’s Stockton & Darlington Railway Report Books
Archive volunteer Robert Demaine delves into the story of S&DR Traffic Superintendent John Graham.
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Donating an object
Peter Thorpe explains our approach to collecting and why we must often say ‘no’.
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Agenoria: Tracing the Past
Martyn Halman tells an intriguing story sparked by a recently unearthed drawing on tracing paper.
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Legal lines: Leonard Raisbeck and the Stockton & Darlington Railway
Curator Thomas Spain explores some of the legal wranglings that paved the way for the creation of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.
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Cataloguing the Leonard Raisbeck Archive
Tania Parker shares an update on her efforts cataloguing an intriguing archive that documents the birth of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.
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