Local History

Uuseful Addresses

Public Record Office
Ruskin Avenue
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU
Tel 020 8876 3444
email: enquiry@pro.gov.uk

For records of the Great Western railway and other companies, including extensive GWR staff records.

Parliamentary Archives
House of Lords
London SW1A 0PW
Tel 020 7219 3074
email: hlro@parliament.uk

For unpublished petitions and minutes of evidence from parliamentary committees supporting railways, deposited plans and railway Acts of Parliament.

Institution of Civil Engineers
1-7 Great George Street
London SW1P 3AA
Tel 020 7222 7722 ext. 2043
email: archive@ice.org.uk

For printed prospectuses and pamphlets and broadsheets opposing railways.

British Library, Manuscript Collections
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Tel 020 7412 7513
email: mss@bl.uk

For railway rule books, regulations and timetables, and railway trade journals, all containing much local information.

Reading Local Studies Library
Reading Central Library
Abbey Square
Reading RG1 3BQ
Tel 0118 901 5965
email: info@readinglibraries.org.uk

For local guides, directories and newspapers containing local railway prospectuses, debate and other information.

National Railway Museum Library
Leeman Road
York YO26 4XJ
Tel 01904 621261
email: nrm.library@nmsi.ac.uk

For technical records, engineering drawings, posters and glass negatives