London & North Western Railway Co

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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	RAIL 410	See List & Index Soc vol 172, 1980
2	1844-1922: records of joint committees with other railways	The National Archives	RAIL 11 98 114 402-10 449 563 576 661 686 727 759 766
3	c1846-1931: records	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	NPR	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	COLL MISC 0058
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	309-11	NRA 6037
7	c1888: Gnosall station plans	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D5870	NRA 3515 Staffs RO misc
8	1868-1904: plans	Bolton Archives and Local Studies Service	RR	NRA 19836 Bolton Archives misc
9	c1892-1922: staff registers	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	DDX439	NRA 5236 Cheshire
10	1881-1934: Chester Northgate Station staff register	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	CR840	See Annual Return 1999
11	1860-61: agreement with Widnes traders and corresp rel to sidings and turntables	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	D 5678	See Annual Return 1999
12	1891-1904: corresp and papers rel to water supply at Chester	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	CR 672
13	1908-1912: Holyhead harbour log book	Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives	WM/403/1	See Accessions to Repositories 1978
14	1892-1900: Liversedge goods depot records	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees	KC94	NRA 26729 Kirklees Arch misc
15	1895-1914: Llangwyllog Railway station gangers logbooks	Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives	WM 438
16	1844-1954: plans rel to Anglesey and Carnarvonshire railways and Holyhead harbour works	Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon Record Office	LNWR	NRA 28983 Caernarfon RO misc
17	1869-70: Lymm Station traffic book and way bills	Warrington Archives, Culture Warrington	WMS 1390
18	1846-1913: papers rel to acquisition of land and lines in Cumberland	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven	D/BT/7/45-127
19	1862-84: Potton Station cash books, goods carriage records etc	Bedfordshire Archives	X 719	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	U3 U4	NRA 20014 Salford plans
22	1886-1923: plans	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/X 998	See Annual Report
23	1875-1922: records	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale	DW:B/236, ELL:167, HAS/B:6/2-3	See Calderdale Archives 1964-89
24	1885-96, 1906: papers rel to New Street Station roof	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 1653	NRA 29847 Birming Ref L misc
25	1846-1920: plans	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	D 4883	NRA 5236 Cheshire
26	1827-89: deeds, corresp and papers, incl plans	Lancashire Archives	DDK/670-84	NRA 53 Stanley
27	plans and drawings	Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)	A19/add	See Annual Return 1998
28	drawings rel to widening of the railway between Milverton and Kenilworth	Warwickshire County Record Office	CR 1803	NRA 3519 Warwicks RO misc
29	1911-14: draft land value returns rel to property in Derbys	Derbyshire Record Office	D5598	NRA 8918 Derbyshire RO misc
30	1850s-1960s: railway plans rel to Conwy	Conwy Archive Service	CX49	See Annual Return 2002
31	1871-1919: Kings Langley station plans	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	D/Z22
32	1882: deed	Derbyshire Record Office	D6214	NRA 8918 Derbyshire RO misc
33	1910-30: London plans	The London Archives: City of London	4030
34	c1955: survey books	Merseyside Record Office	385BRB
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	D 7094	See Annual Return 2006
36	1912-14: staff books	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	NPR/7196	See Annual Return 2006
37	1869-1953: Earlestown Carriage & Wagon Works: engineering drawings of wagons and site plans	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)	2006-7238	See Annual Return 2006
38	1843-1913: architectural drawings incl general construction drawings and railway line elevations	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)	2017-7056	See Annual Return 2017
39	1894-1895: train guard's report book	Bedfordshire Archives	Z1282	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	2007/026	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	D5900
43	1862-1866: pen and ink drawings of structures planned for Liverpool Road Station, Manchester	Science and Industry Museum	2014-3006
44	1911-1914: Finance Act (1910) returns on land owned by the company in Aston and Rugby	Warwickshire County Record Office	CR3711