Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd, locomotive manufacturers and shipbuilders

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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.

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	The Story Durham (formerly 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