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London & North Western Railway Co

This page summarises records created by this Business

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Alternative name(s):
  • British Railways (London Midland Region) (Later known as)
Date: 1846-1923
Places:
  • London
Functions, occupations and activities: Transport and communications > Railways
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C109013 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B11735 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1845-1929: minutes, ledgers, deeds, agreements, contracts, plans, registers, personnel records, corresp and papers
The National Archives
See List & Index Soc vol 172, 1980
2
1844-1922: records of joint committees with other railways
The National Archives
3
c1846-1931: records
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 33489 British Rail
4
1879: Memorandum of inspection of the management of railways in Germany, Belgium, Austria and France by George Findlay and Messrs Webb, Neale, Borel and Michael
London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections
5
19th-20th cent: plans
Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle
See County Archivist's report 8 Sept 1976
6
1843-82: corresp and papers and plans rel to purchase of land in Warwicks
Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service
NRA 6037
7
c1888: Gnosall station plans
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
NRA 3515 Staffs RO misc
8
1868-1904: plans
Bolton Archives and Local Studies Service
NRA 19836 Bolton Archives misc
9
c1892-1922: staff registers
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 5236 Cheshire
10
1881-1934: Chester Northgate Station staff register
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
See Annual Return 1999
11
1860-61: agreement with Widnes traders and corresp rel to sidings and turntables
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
See Annual Return 1999
12
1891-1904: corresp and papers rel to water supply at Chester
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
13
1908-1912: Holyhead harbour log book
Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives
See Accessions to Repositories 1978
14
1892-1900: Liversedge goods depot records
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees
NRA 26729 Kirklees Arch misc
15
1895-1914: Llangwyllog Railway station gangers logbooks
Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives
16
1844-1954: plans rel to Anglesey and Carnarvonshire railways and Holyhead harbour works
Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon Record Office
NRA 28983 Caernarfon RO misc
17
1869-70: Lymm Station traffic book and way bills
Warrington Archives, Culture Warrington
18
1846-1913: papers rel to acquisition of land and lines in Cumberland
Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven
19
1862-84: Potton Station cash books, goods carriage records etc
Bedfordshire Archives
NRA 6970 Bedfordshire misc
20
19th-20th cent: plans
Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow
See County Archivist's report 8 Sept 1976
21
1862-1935: Salford and area plans
Salford City Archives
NRA 20014 Salford plans
22
1886-1923: plans
Buckinghamshire Archives
See Annual Report
23
1875-1922: records
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale
See Calderdale Archives 1964-89
24
1885-96, 1906: papers rel to New Street Station roof
Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service
NRA 29847 Birming Ref L misc
25
1846-1920: plans
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 5236 Cheshire
26
1827-89: deeds, corresp and papers, incl plans
Lancashire Archives
NRA 53 Stanley
27
plans and drawings
Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)
See Annual Return 1998
28
drawings rel to widening of the railway between Milverton and Kenilworth
Warwickshire County Record Office
NRA 3519 Warwicks RO misc
29
1911-14: draft land value returns rel to property in Derbys
Derbyshire Record Office
NRA 8918 Derbyshire RO misc
30
1850s-1960s: railway plans rel to Conwy
Conwy Archive Service
See Annual Return 2002
31
1871-1919: Kings Langley station plans
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
32
1882: deed
Derbyshire Record Office
NRA 8918 Derbyshire RO misc
33
1910-30: London plans
London Metropolitan Archives: City of London
34
c1955: survey books
Merseyside Record Office
35
1870-1968: estate office plans of the Garston, Warrington and Altrincham line, the Walton branch line and the Chester and Walton Junction section of the Birkenhead Railway
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
See Annual Return 2006
36
1912-14: staff books
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
See Annual Return 2006
37
1869-1953: Earlestown Carriage & Wagon Works: engineering drawings of wagons and site plans
Search Engine (National Railway Museum)
See Annual Return 2006
38
1843-1913: architectural drawings incl general construction drawings and railway line elevations
Search Engine (National Railway Museum)
See Annual Return 2017
39
1894-1895: train guard's report book
Bedfordshire Archives
See Annual Return 2007
40
1922-1930: scrapbook containing staff accident reports for Crewe department with personal name index
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
See Annual Return 2007
41
1872: parliamentary plans
Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre
42
1912: plans
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
43
1862-1866: pen and ink drawings of structures planned for Liverpool Road Station, Manchester
Science and Industry Museum
44
1911-1914: Finance Act (1910) returns on land owned by the company in Aston and Rugby
Warwickshire County Record Office