Routledge Revivals: The Atlas of British Railway History (1985)

2018 ◽  
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Railway History

Railway History in English Local Records

1953 ◽  
Vol fs-1 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-169
Author(s):  
Jack Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Single Source ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Railway History ◽  
Official Records

In the last number of this JOURNAL the Archivist of the British Transport Commission described the records in his charge and the facilities he can offer to students who wish to consult them.1 The Commission's archives represent an amalgamation of the surviving official records of practically all the British railway and canal companies. Necessarily, therefore, they form the most important single source of material to the transport historian in this country, rivalled only by the records of the Board of Trade, now in the Public Record Office. But these are not the only sources; and it will be the object of this paper, and some of its successors in this series, to describe other groups of documents that can usefully supplement the two great metropolitan collections.

Railway History in English Local Records

1954 ◽  
Vol fs-1 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-169
Author(s):  
Jack Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Single Source ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Railway History ◽  
Official Records

In the last number of this Journal the Archivist of the British Transport Commission described the records in his charge and the facilities he can offer to students who wish to consult them. The Commission's archives represent an amalgamation of the surviving official records of practically all the British railway and canal companies. Necessarily, therefore, they form the most important single source of material to the transport historian in this country, rivalled only by the records of the Board of Trade, now in the Public Record Office. But these are not the only sources; and it will be the object of this paper, and some of its successors in this series, to describe other groups of documents that can usefully supplement the two great metropolitan collections.

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