Great 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.

Date:	1800-2000
Places:	London
Functions, occupations and activities:	Transport and communications > Railways
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C123098 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B11353 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1833-1968: ship plans and specifications, signal and telegraph records	The National Archives	RAIL 250-282
2	joint committee minutes with Bristol & Exeter Railways, Great Central Railway, London & South Western, Southern, Bristol, Exeter & South Devon, Shrewsbury & Chester, Shrewsbury & Birmingham and West Midland & South Wales	The National Archives	RAIL 238-240, 245, 249, 283-284
3	19th cent-20th cent: historical collections, incl papers of Sir Daniel Gooch, chairman, and various records rel to proposed and actual companies, stations etc	The National Archives	RAIL 1008/1-86, 1014, 1057, 786
4	1837-58: agenda book, corresp, sketchbooks	Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections		NRA 28085 Brunel
5	1911-1926: papers rel to strikes incl General Strike	The National Archives	RAIL 786
6	1893-1948: locomotive detail drawings (c5000) from the GWR locomotive Drawing Office, Swindon	Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery		NRA 12598
7	1868-1986: records incl Swindon Works staff registers	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre	2515	NRA 44142
8	1833-61: letter books, solicitors' report books, plans	Bristol Archives	12167	NRA 7563 Bristol RO misc
9	1928-1946: weighing book for Avon Street Station	Bristol Archives	40968	NRA 7563 Bristol RO misc
10	administrative and misc papers	Swindon Central Library		See Foster & Sheppard, British Archives (1982)
11	1879-84: minutes and papers of Locomotive Superintendents rel to hours and wages of enginemen and firemen	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)	1997-7156	NRA 32928 National Railway
12	1873-1920: Northern division register of railwaymen, wages and punishment book	Shropshire Archives	X6001/53	NRA 19299
13	1927-32: layers rel to Royal Albert Railway Bridge and corresp and photographs	Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)	June-Sept 78	NRA 5235 Cornwall RO misc
14	1836-89: drawings, plans, other papers	Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections	DM 1159, 1171 (RO Nos)	NRA 28085 Brunel
15	1865-80: Berwyn station accounts and stationmaster's corresp	North East Wales Archives (NEWA), Ruthin (formerly Denbighshire Archives)	DD/DM/620	See Annual Report 1985
16	1901-04: papers rel operation of railcar services	Gloucestershire Archives	D3976	NRA 3514 Glos RO misc
17	1896-1902: minute book of the Redruth committee for the extension of the railway from Newquay westward	Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)	AD116
18	1925-57: records of stations in Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire Archives	D5097	NRA 3514 Glos RO misc
19	1934-62: Milford Haven station fish account book, Templeton station out-wards parcels counter book	Pembrokeshire Archives and Local Studies	HDX/513	NRA 25695 Dyfed Archives
20	1835-1893: papers	Hampshire Archives	10M57/TR7/1-13
21	c1861-1948: records rel to north west area	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	NPR	NRA 33489 British Rail
22	c1888 - 1970: records incl Cardiff dry dock stemming diary	Glamorgan Archives	DX683
23	1837-87: ground plans of stations and engineering drawings of bridges, buildings and equipment (incl Paddington)	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)		See Science Museum Annual Return 1992, Transferred from Science Museum 2005
24	1927-1956: Tiverton Gang 83A works record	Tiverton Museum	88/761/1	NRA 38636 Tiverton
25	1866-73: papers rel to Coalport Station	Ironbridge Gorge Museum Library and Archives	1984/930-35	NRA 40420 Ironbridge
26	c1860-1935: Llangollen railway plans, accounts, train registers	North East Wales Archives (NEWA), Ruthin (formerly Denbighshire Archives)	DD/DM/1258	See Annual Return 1997
27	1898: plans, sections and book of reference rel to widening of the bridge over the River Towy	Archifdy Sir Gar / Carmarthenshire Archives	Carmarthen Borough/468/1/3	NRA 33713 Carmarthen
28	1899-1935: plans of Burry Port docks, section drawing of jetty	Archifdy Sir Gar / Carmarthenshire Archives	DB/127	See Annual Return 2001
29	records rel to water supply at Glogue	Pembrokeshire Archives and Local Studies	D/BRB addl	See Annual Return 2002
30	c1858-1908: clerks staff register	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies	NPR	See Annual Return 2003
31	1908-1913: Launceston branch plans	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	6346	NRA 4613 Devon RO
32	1857: Bristol and Exeter Railway from Exeter to Beam Bridge Surveyor's Maps	Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections	DM 2058	See Annual Return 2006
33	1878: Barnstaple, Victoria Road Station, goods ledger	North Devon Record Office (South West Heritage Trust)	2006 Acc 5	See Annual Return 2006
34	1904: booking clerk ledger	Shropshire Archives	7393	See Annual Return 2006
35	1836-1846: drawings (110) rel to Swindon Works and Railway village	Steam: Museum of the Great Western Railway
36	1879-1882: proof book for Ferryside Station	Archifdy Sir Gar / Carmarthenshire Archives	7979	See Annual Return 2007
37	1931-1950: Bontnewydd station accounts ledger	Gwynedd Archives, Meirionnydd Record Office	ZM/6310	See Annual Return 2007
38	1895-1956: records	Glamorgan Archives	DBRL/X
39	1873-1916: log books for sailings from Porthcawl Harbour	Glamorgan Archives	DPHA
40	1858-1923: railway share registers of the predecessor companies to the Great Western Railway before the grouping under the Railways Act, 1921.	Glamorgan Archives	DNMW/49	See Annual Return 2010
41	1800-1899: papers	Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre	CO22	See Annual Return 2012
42	19th cent - 20th cent: drainage agreements, plans of lines and machinery	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	8236 8493
43	1844-1915: agreements, petitions and receipts (Newton Abbot Library: railway studies collection)	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	8444
44	20th cent: Dingestow Railway Station: records	Gwent Archives	D5764	See Annual Return 2012
45	c1930-1939: Deep Navigation Colliery: coal and coke rate book	Glamorgan Archives	D923
46	corresp	National Waterways Archive	2010/1
47	1920 - 1939: excursion tickets for 'A Day Out in Shakespeare's Company'; includes admission to Shakespeare associated properties	Shakespeare Birthplace Trust	DR1256
48	1850-1927: survey of Swindon works as built, misc plans incl from Paddington drawing office	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre	2515	See Annual Return 2013
49	1916-1954: records rel to Swansea Docks	West Glamorgan Archive Service	D 2
50	1927-1964: agreements rel to land in Cornwall	Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)	AD2358	See Annual Return 2014
51	1873-1953: deeds and papers	West Glamorgan Archive Service	RISW GWR	See Records transferred to West Glamorgan Archives from The Royal Institution of South Wales in 2004
52	1928-1962: equipment agreements	Bristol Archives	45322/54-60	See Annual Return 2015
53	c1905-1906: corresp with Douglas SW Sladen	Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Library and Archive	SLA/34	NRA 14252 Sladen