This series contains minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors and Shareholders, and of the Railway, Traffic, Finance, Locomotive Power, Permanent Way and Works, and other committees. It also includes a wide range of reports and correspondence, stock and share registers, deeds, agreements, contracts, specifications, estimates and plans, statistical material, locomotive and rolling stock records (including annual surveys and valuations of locomotives), petitions and memorials to directors, staff records and accountant's records, in addition to material relating to the New Shildon works and the New Shildon Mechanics Institute.