British Railways Board (Residuary) Ltd

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 Transport Commission (Formerly known as) British Rail (Also known as) British Rail: British Railways Board (Formerly known as)
Date:	1800-2000
Places:	Wales Crewe, Cheshire London
Functions, occupations and activities:	Transport and communications > Railways
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C102383 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B28558 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	19th-20th cent: maps, plans and photographs rel to Mansfield, Nottingham, Arnold and Burton Joyce	Nottinghamshire Archives	DD/2194
2	1835-1902: technical drawings of English station buildings	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)	BR	See Transferred from Science Museum 2005
3	1846-1984: railway and dock company records, incl share registers and legal papers of railway companies subsumed into the Great Western Railway, records rel to disposal of surplus railway land in West Glamorgan, legal agreements rel to siding provision, engineering drawings of services and machinery in Briton Ferry, Port Talbot and Swansea docks, records rel to British Rail property	West Glamorgan Archive Service	D/D PRO/BRB
4	1852-1911: papers rel to the Aylesbury-Buckingham railway and the Wycombe Extension railway	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/X 1524	See Annual Return 2000
5	1862-1870: Herts plans and agreements	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	Acc 3878	See Annual Return 2002
6	1864-1949: railway plans	Southwark Archives	2011/65	See Annual Return 2011
7	1881-1921: records	Powys Archives and Information Management	P/X/16	See Annual Return 2002
8	1883-1987: files rel to Dorset railways and stations	Dorset History Centre	D.1742	See Annual Return 2002, 2005
9	1888-1935: records rel to Great Northern Railway, records rel to London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale	WYC:1426
10	1890s-1980s: personnel records cards	Doncaster Archives	DY/BRB	See Annual Return 2011
11	1900s-1950s: register of staff at Barnsley Station	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)	2012-7091
12	1900-1999: plans for Charing Cross line	Lambeth Archives	2011/16
13	20th cent: deeds and papers rel to Beds properties	Bedfordshire Archives	Z1032	NRA 6970 Bedfordshire misc
14	1902-1987: King's Cross engineers' department corresp files	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	Acc 3806	See Annual Return 2002
15	1908-1941: Cardiff, Barry and Penarth Docks plans	Glamorgan Archives	D31
16	1911-61: files rel to property in Rutland	Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for	DE 5879	See Annual Return 2000
17	1924-1930: record of firing turns at Llandudno Junction railway station	Conwy Archive Service	CX139	See Annual Return 2002
18	1924-73: files of corresp and plans	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BTBR	See Annual Return 2002
19	1926-1991: station working books, track plans for Carlisle Area, file re closures of Sellafield, Moor Row, Corkickle stations, and other records	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven	TBR	See Annual Return 2010
20	1943-1951: St Albans station plans	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	Acc 3946	See Annual Return 2003
21	1948-78: section plans of proposed work on track, bridges etc in Kent	Kent History and Library Centre	U2373	See Annual Return 2006
22	1949-1989: plans relating principally to Victoria Station and Grosvenor and Charing Cross Hotels, London	City of Westminster Archives Centre	Acc 2665
23	c1950-70: Crewe Works staff registers	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies		See Annual Return 2010
24	1952-1981: staff suggestion scheme registers and volumes from North Eastern, London Midland and Western Regions, minutes from staff suggestion committees	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)	2005-7449-7466	See Annual Return 2005
25	c 1955: plans of the Border Counties branch line stations	Northumberland Archives	NRO 09145	See Annual Return 2011
26	1959-1965: Ash Pit Books for Llandudno Junction, Bangor and Holyhead Stations	Conwy Archive Service	CX387 (Add.)
27	1961-1962: Staff Investigation Committee ("Razor Gang"): reports on station facilities and operations	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)		See Annual Return 2011
28	1961-1992: Shropshire signal box train registers	Shropshire Archives	7517	See Annual Return 2006
29	1962-81: property records	The London Archives: City of London	Acc B99/093	See Annual Return 1999
30	1965-78: Buckinghamshire property files	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/X 1434	See Annual Return 1999
31	files relating to Bangor and Port Dinorwic	Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon Record Office	XM10723	See Annual Return 1999
32	1967-80: corresp rel to sale of properties in Surrey	Surrey History Centre	6662	NRA 3518 Surrey RO misc
33	1967-1986: papers	Science and Industry Museum	2012.6
34	1968-76: Estate managers' office and British Rail Property Board Headquarter files	Barnsley Archive and Local Studies	A2011
35	1969-78: papers relating to station grounds and property, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorchester, Hamworthy, Moreton, Swanage, Wareham and Weymouth	Dorset History Centre	D1640
36	1970-1977: corresp and papers rel to rent charge redemption on the Mold & Denbigh line	North East Wales Archives (NEWA), Hawarden (formerly Flintshire Record Office)		See Annual Return 1999
37	1970-1980: records	Medway Archives Centre
38	1970-93: Kent property files (15)	Kent History and Library Centre	U3273	See Annual Return 1999
39	1973 -1979: Total Operations Processing System (TOPS): files, reports, handbooks, manuals, forms and cards	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)	2006-7462	See Annual Return 2006
40	1976-1983: papers	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)	1996-7912	See Annual Return 1996
41	1976-1977: Architects Department and Chief Civil Engineer: Blackfriars Station and Blackfriars Bridge 410a reconstruction plans	The London Archives: City of London	B10/092
42	1979-85: files rel to redevelopment of Marylebone station and Victoria-Gatwick airport rail link	City of Westminster Archives Centre	Acc 2266	See Annual Return 2001
43	c1980: Leyland Experimental Vehicle (LEV): minutes, calculations and diagrams rel development, compiled by Trevor Griffin, rail engineer	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)	2006-7540	See Annual Return 2006
44	1986-1987: Margam Sorting Sidings signal box train register	West Glamorgan Archive Service	D/D Z 196/4	See Annual Return 2013
45	1986-1991: Liverpool Street Station redevelopment: progress photographs	The London Archives: City of London	PM10/004	See Annual Return 2010
46	agreements rel to construction and management of sidings in Cheshire	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	NPR	See Annual Return 1999
47	maps and plans rel to Conwy	Conwy Archive Service	Cmaps and Plans 34
48	employee record cards of Darlington and Shildon railway works	The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)	Acc 8025	See Annual Return 2012