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Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd, locomotive manufacturers and shipbuilders

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.

Date: 1823-1956
Places:
  • Darlington, Durham
  • Hebburn, Durham
Functions, occupations and activities: Engineering: Mechanical > Railway equipment | Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C121342 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6626 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1823-1901: minutes, order and description books, engine details etc
Search Engine (National Railway Museum)
Microfilm B144
NRA 28464 Stephenson & Co

See Transferred from Science Museum 2005
2
1825-1956: drawings (334)
National Museums Liverpool: Maritime Archives and Library
B/VF
NRA 29901 Vulcan Foundry
3
1902-1937: locomotive weight book, drawings registers, drawings
Search Engine (National Railway Museum)
See HMC National Railway Mus file, July 1993
4
1836: drawing/elevation of the Rocket engine
Search Engine (National Railway Museum)
1966-7066
See Annual Return 1996
5
1859: drawings (5) of the 'Rocket', by John Dobson Wardale, head draughtsman
Search Engine (National Railway Museum)
2004-7175
See Annual Return 2004
6
1824-1861: corresp, accounts, etc
Durham County Record Office
D/PS
NRA 24239
7
1907: specification (1 vol) for steel screw steamer
Tyne and Wear Archives
Acc 1810/7
NRA 8919 Tyne and Wear misc
8
1823-1901: order books, locomotive description books, financial records
Search Engine (National Railway Museum)
1995-7773
See Annual Return 1995
9
1823-1903: order books, description books, ledgers, notebooks and misc papers
Search Engine (National Railway Museum)
1970-473
NRA 42127 R Stephenson

See Brief Summary of Archive Collections in the National Railway Museum (1996)
10
1828-73: misc early drawings
Discovery Museum
11
1838: paper rel regulations
Tyne and Wear Archives
DX1055