Mike Macdonald's Transport History Pages

e-mail: macdonald.mike@planetinternet.be

Updated 26 January 2003

These pages are being developed to give links to other railway websites: archive, indexes to periodicals, railway preservation society, locomotive and rolling stock, regional railway history, railway "study" (or enthusiast) organisations, and railway photography websites. Brief descriptions of the contents of the pages will be added.

Dundee University Archives: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/mrailway.htm/ hold records of the Newport Railway Co., the North British Railway Co. (relating to the Tay Bridge Disaster, etc.), the Dundee & Perth Joint Rly. and the Kirkcaldy & District Railways.

Glasgow University Archives, Business Record Centre, 13 Thurso Street, Glasgow G11 6PE, Scotland. Tel. (0141) 330 5515. A large collection of business records, the catalogue of which can be seen on the Glasgow University Archives' website: http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/ Records include locomotive and rolling stock builders Andrew Barclay Sons & Co., Ltd (including photographs), William Beardmore & Co., (including photographs), Dubs & Co., Neilson & Co., North British Locomotive Co. and R Y Pickering & Co. (including photographs). There are also records of the early Scottish railway companies. e-mail: dutyarch@archives.gla.ac.uk

Highland Railway Archive Records in North Highland Archive, Wick: Reference at http://www.caithness.org/links/railways.htm Describes the contents of these archives, including Iain Sutherland's notes and drafts for his book The Wick & Lybster Railway, material relating to the extension of the railway to Wick, 1872, and selection of photographs.

Historic Manuscripts Commission: http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/simple.htm for simple search under personal or corporate name

National Railway Museum, York: Archives: Tel: 01904 621261; for Library bookings, tel: 01904 686235. Website: http://www.nrm.org.uk/html/home_pb/menu.asp

SRO = Scottish Record Office (known officially as "The National Archives of Scotland"), West Register House, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh EH2 4DF

Telephone: (0131) 556 6585. e-mail: wsr@nas.gov.uk

Backtrack Index: http://www.steamindex.com/bt.htm Index to articles in Backtrack magazine since its inception in 1988; useful content summaries.

Computerised Railway Magazine Index (CRMI): http://www.andibradley.com/crmi/crmimain.htm Index of some 13,620 items (database entries), including photographs and plans contained in railway and railway modelling periodicals of interest to railway modellers. Visitors to the site can make key-in subject "Searches"; e.g., keying in the terms "Edinburgh Waverley" brings out annotated references to photographs of steam and diesel locomotives types, etc.

http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/railper.html A list of the railway periodicals and newsletters held in the Railway Studies' Collection in Newton Abbott Library

http://www3.sympatico.ca/lsw.lbsc/SRDRWING.HTM These pages identify where drawings of locomotives, coaches, wagons, buildings and miscellaneous items of the old Southern Railway and related railways in the UK have been published in railway magazines, model railway magazines and some specialist railway books over the past 65 years.

B.R. Sulzer Type 2/Classes 24 & 25: http://www.sulzertwo.com/ David Hills's excellent history of the B.R. Sulzer Type 2s, with plentiful illustrations.

Class 37: http://www.c37lg.co.uk/ News of surviving members of Class, recent history of workings, with plentiful illustrations

Brush Class 47: http://www.hmilburn.easynet.co.uk/enthuse/diesel/locos/class47.htm

Brush Class 47: http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/47.html Original numbering and 1974 re-numbering, and names, of Brush Class 47 diesel locomotives. Access to re-numbering and names of Class 20, Class 33 and Class 37 diesel locomotives. N.B. This URL appears no longer to work (25 Jan 2003)

English Electric Class 55/'Deltic': www.napierchronicles.co.uk Illustrated history of the 'Deltics', including details of workings/workshops of all members of the Class, with many fine colour images.

Class 101 (Metro-Cammell) dmus: http://www.class101.co.uk/ Website illustrating surviving members of the Class in (current) operation.

Midland Class Twenty Association: http://www.mcta.org.uk/ History of the preserved Class 20 diesel locomotive D8048.

Scottish Railway Preservation Society (SRPS): http://www.srps.org.uk/index.html

Stanier 'Jubilee' 4-6-0s (LM&S Railway): http://www.jubilees.co.uk/

Swindon Diesel Preservation Society: http://www.seventwenty.demon.co.uk/ This site may be temporarily offline; a new version was being prepared, end May 2001.

Cumbrian Railways Association: http://www.cumbrian-rail.org/

Monklands: http://www.jhowie.force9.co.uk/monkland.htm

Railscot: http://www.railscot.co.uk/ Ewan Crawford's huge Scottish Railway History website

Peter W Robinson's pages: http://www.pwr.clara.net/ History of the railways of Cumbria

Branch Line News International/Rinbad ("Railway geography and infrastructure in Europe, etc."): http://www.rinbad.demon.co.uk/

European Railway Server: http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/

Gensheet homepage railway information and photographs: http://www.gensheet.co.uk/

For useful information about travel by passenger train over unusual routes/diversions. Scenic railway photographs, steam and diesel.

Great North of Scotland Railway Signalbox types: http://www.griffon.clara.net/gnsra/gnsra_sigbox3.htm

The Historical Model Railway Society: http://hmrs.org.uk/

London & North Eastern Railway (LNEEG) homepage: http://www.bulleid.force9.co.uk/lneeg/ "Enthusiasts, historians, and modellers interested in the former London & North Eastern Railway, its constituents, and successors, corresponding over the Internet".

London & North Eastern Railway: http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r046.html Illustrated history of the L&NER.

North British Railway Study Group: http://www.noble101.freeserve.co.uk/ Includes a brief history of the North British Railway, NBRly system map, a selection of diagrams of NBRly locomotives from a 1918 Diagrams' Book, photographs and information about the Study Group.

The Railway Correspondence & Travel Society: http://www.rcts.org.uk/

Railway Heritage Asscoiation: http://ukhrail.uel.ac.uk/

Rinbad: http://www.rinbad.demon.co.uk/

Scotland Street Railway Station: http://www.ednet.co.uk/~mctavish/tunnel.html History of Edinburgh's Scotland Street station and its railway services.

Scottish Industrial Railway Centre: http://britishhistory.about.com/aboutuk/britishhistory/blScottishRailwayCentre.htm

TrainNet's International Railway Links: http://www.tadlane.com/rrlinks.htm A big site with lots of railway links, of interest to railway modellers, particularly

Yesteryear Railwayana: http://www.yesrail.co.uk/

http://www.ken.brockway.care4free.net/index.html Station and branch line photographs, including Great North of Scotland Railway lines, Waverley Route, and Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.

Cumbrian Railways Association: http://www.l.gilpin.btinternet.co.uk/crahome/fotolist.rtf

Catalogue of the Cumbrian Railways Association's collection of photographs, including steam and diesel, industrial steam and Morecambe electrics.

Ronnie McAdam: e-mail: rmcadam47@aol.com 137 Mountcastle Crescent, Edinburgh EH8; fax. (0131) 669 7537

National Railway Museum, York: Eric Treacy photographs: http://www.nrm.org.uk/html/exhib_pb/treacy/photos.asp

Railway photographer's Guide to the U.K. : http://www.photoloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

A promising guide to good locations in Britian for photographing railways; OS Grid references of most locations are included. Looking forward to seeing pictures on the website, taken at the locations described.

Peter W Robinson's pages: http://www.pwr.clara.net/ History of the railways of Cumbria, with Peter W Robinson's photographs of Cumbrian stations and trains. Includes photos of industrial railways, Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway stations, etc.

Stead, Neville: 14 NORMA CRESCENT, WHITLEY BAY, TYNE & WEAR, NE26 2PD

http://www.mulehouse.demon.co.uk/stations/index.htm Comprehensive register of railway station photographs in books and periodicals.

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