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Signalling Record Society

Index To The Archives

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Archive Box Contents

Box	Shelf	Contents	Listing
1-6		Batts Collection - various items, mostly technical	1-6
8-10		Batts Collection - various items, mostly technical	8-10
41-43	232	Accident reports	41-43
44	237	Accident reports 1960-90	44
51 51B	7 345	Appendices: LMSR, Chester & Birkenhead, Severn & Wye, Shrewsbury & Hereford	51
52	7	Appendices: BR, London Midland Region, 1960-1968	52
53	8	Appendices: BR, London Midland Region, 1969-1985	53
54 54A 54B	322	Appendices, Loose Leaf, 1986 et seq.	54-54B
54C	356	Appendices, Loose Leaf, 1986 et seq.	54C
55	8	Appendices: BR General	55
55A	7	Appendices: LMSR, GWR, BR London Midland & Western Region men working over other lines	55A
55B	7	Appendices: LNER, SR, BR Eastern, North Eastern & Southern Region men working over other lines	55B
56	8	Appendices: LBSCR, LSWR, SECR, Southern, BR Southern Region, Somerset & Dorset	56
56A	9	Appendices: BR Scottish Region	56A
57		Appendices: BR Western Region Before 1960 Box not yet available	57
58	7	Appendices: BR Western Region 1960-1968	57
58A	9	Appendices: BR Western Region 1969-1982	58
59	9	Appendices: LNER, BR Eastern Region	59
60	9	Appendices: BR Eastern & Anglia Regions	60
61	9	Appendices: LNER, BR Eastern & North Eastern Regions	61
62	10	Appendices: BR loose-leaf plus various books of instructions	62
63	10	Miscellaneous Instruction Books including Block Regulations	63
64	10	Miscellaneous Instruction Books including Rule Books	64
65 66A 66B 67-68 69 70	235 262 262 216 216 218	ER Weekly Engineering Notices 1968-96	65-70
71	2	Betts files - quite a variety	71
72	57	Miscellaneous Instructions ex Porchester Road	72
73	4	BR(W) Signalling Notices 1961 - 1982 period	73
74	4	LNWR, LMSR, BR(LM), Railtrack & BR(Sc) Signalling Notices	74
75	4	LT Signalling Notices including some ballast train supplements	75
76	223	LNER, BR(E) & BR(NE) Signalling Notices	76
76A	214	BR(E) Signalling Notices	76A
77	223	SR & BR(S) Signalling Notices	77
77A	227	SR & BR(S) Signalling Notices - rolled plans on linen - list for box 77 is annotated to indicate which ones are here as well	77A
101-108 109-114 115-120 121-126 127-132	11 12 13 14 15	Cullum Collection - SECR lines	Catalogue
133-138 139-144 145-149	16 17 18	Cullum Collection - LBSCR lines	Catalogue
150 151-158 159-164 165-170 171-175 176-181 182-187	18 19 20 21 22 23 24	Cullum Collection - LSWR lines	Catalogue
188-190 191-193 194	25 26 27	Carr Collection - LSWR lines	Catalogue
195 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205	233 234 235 236 243 244 245 246 247 248	Cullum Collection - miscellaneous (some of contents temporarily withdrawn for detail cataloguing) There is no box 196, contents merged into box 197.	195-205
206-207	34	Wagstaff Bequest - folders	206 207
208	242	Cullum collection - miscellaneous	208
209	266	Hillier collection, Southern Region items	209
210 210A	304 317	SR / BR(S) Collections	210 210A
211	356	Pryer Collection - SR diagrams etc	211
212-213	313	Kadwell Collection, Southern items	212-213
214-215	303	Elms Collection - SR diagrams	214-215
216 217 218	231 221 241	Cullum collection - miscellaneous The material in these boxes is available on CD in Research Notes 37 and 38.
219	267	Talbot Collection - SR diagrams	219
220	326	BR(S) microfilmed diagrams
221	85	Talbot Collection - SR Diagrams	221
221X	85	Talbot Collection - Non SR Diagrams (stored inside box 221)	221X
222	358	Southern Region items from Martin Elms, Bluebell Railway and M Pope. Three Eastern Region Items from Martin Elms.	222
223	345	J J Smith Collection, Southern Region Diagrams.	223
224	345	LBSCR Signal Box Index Cards.	none required
225	276	Southern Region Rolled Diagrams.	225
301-304	28	Batts Collection - GWR lines	301 302 303 304
305	28	Various BR(W) diagrams	305
306-308	48	Carr Collections - GWR lines transferred to BR(S)	Yes
309	40	BR(W) Standard Drawings
310	40	GWR London Division Classification of SBs
311	40	GWR & BR(W) Signal Dept Mechanical Drawings Index
312-313	62	John Morris Collection - BR(W) Diagrams	312 313
314 315	62 63	John Morris Collection - BR(W) Miscellaneous Papers
316		(not in use)
317	217	Richards Collection - BR(W) Notices etc
318	75	Correspondence Files - Swindon & Frome S&T
319	309	Cardani collection - London area	319
320	309	Cardani collection - Reading/Gloucester areas	320
321	308	Cardani collection - Bristol, Plymouth & Birmingham areas	321
322	316	Cardani collection - South Wales area	322
319-322	above	Cardani collection - South Wales area. Scheme plans	319-322
323	326	Cardani collection - Technical Instructions	323
324 325 325A	305 305 314	GWR / BR(W) Collections	324 325 325A
326	218	Maiden Collection - WR diagrams	326
327	247	Collins Collection - WR diagrams	327
328	314	Hallett Collection, Western items	328
329-330	325	Alan Horner Collection, Western items	329-330
331	10	Alan Jarvis Collection, South Wales items	331
332-333	83	South Devon & Cornwall dog charts	332 333
334	213	Westbury area signalling plans	334
335-338	276	GWR / BR(W) rolled diagrams	335 336 337 338
339	276	BR (WR) rolled diagrams	339
340	276	GWR & BR (WR) rolled diagrams	340
501-502	29	Batts Collection - LMS & Joint lines	501-502
503 504-505	29 30	Booth Collection - LMS lines. Also includes Shrewsbury - Chester; Brymbo & Gatewen Branches; some North Eastern in Whitby & Scarborough areas; Newcastle - Carlisle, Wool, Wareham, Hamworthy; Woodhead line; Greenloaning - Wick; Barnhill - Aberdeen; Kyle line; Annan - Ayr; Girvan - Stranraer; West Highland; Oban line.	503-505
506-507	31	John Swift Collection - LNW/LMS S&T Record Sketches	506 507
508	31	LNW/LMS S&T Record Sketches - north of Crewe	508
509	32	Cheshire - South Lancashire area drawings	509
510	39	LMS & BR(LM) Technical Papers - S&T Instructions, Guidance Notes, Principles
511	3	BR(LM) Power Box Guides - ex Birmingham S&T	511
512 513 514-515 516-517 518	315 316 212 222 3	BR(LM) S&T Plans - ex Birmingham S&T	512 513 514 515 516 517 518
519	2	BR(LM) S&T Plans - GW lines - ex Birmingham S&T	519
520	58	Watts Collection - BR(LM) & BR(E)	520
521	56	Brenholz Collection - mostly technical but includes extracts from 3-5-5 magazine
522	213	Swift notebooks	522
523	317	Cardani Collection - LMR south	523
524	318	Cardani Collection - LMR north	524
525-526 526A	306 315	LMS / BR(LM) Collections	525 526 526A
527	224	Collins Collection - LMR diagrams	527
528-530 531-533 534-536 537 538 539 540 541-543 544-546	70 80 90 91 92 93 85 94 95	BR(LM) S&T Plans - ex Birmingham S&T	528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546
547	313	J J Smith Collection - BR (LM) diagrams	547
548	326	Mike Norris Collection - BR (LM) diagrams	548
549	276	BR (LM) rolled diagrams	549
550	312	BR (LM) diagrams (South Midlands)	550
551-553 554-556 557-559 560-562 563-565 566-568 569	49 59 50 60 51 61 223	BR(LM) S&T Correspondence Files	551-569
701-706	37	BR(E) Correspondence re closure of lines	701-706
707	47	Signalling Plans - LTS lines	707
708	38	Batts Collection - LNE lines	708
709-710 711-712	38 39	S&T Plans & Signalbox Diagrams - GN & GE lines	709 710 711 712
713	55	S&T Plans & Signalbox Diagrams - BR(E)	713
714	55	S&T Plans & Signalbox Diagrams - BR(E)	714
715 716-717	55 65	S&T Plans & Signalbox Diagrams - BR(E)	715 716 717
718	75	BR(E) Power Box Records
719-720	307	LNE / BR(E) Collections	719 720
721	71	Collins Collection - ER diagrams	721
722-723	334	East Anglia Signalmen's Instructions	722-723
724	276	GE Lines (London area) diagrams	724
725-726	91	Alan Foulner collection - SB diagrams etc	725 726
727	86	Alan Foulner collection - NER track diagrams	727
728		Not used at present
729	92	BR(E) S&T Plans - ex Birmingham S&T	729
730	85	John Talbot Collection - BR(E) S&T Plans	730
731 732	92A 90A	Chris Wolstenholmes Collection - BR(E) Box Records & Scheme Plans	731 732
901	255	HSE level crossing files - LMR	901-912
902-903	255	HSE level crossing files - ER	901-912
904	255	HSE level crossing files - ER, WR, SR, NER	901-912
905-906 907-910	255 254	HSE level crossing files - ScR	901-912
911	254	HSE level crossing files - ScR, light railways	901-912
912	254	HSE level crossing files - private railways	901-912
913	308	BR(Sc) / LT / Other Collections	913
914-915	258	Guest Collection - notebooks, all regions	914-915
916	253	Collins Collection - Scottish Region diagrams	916
917	82	Signalling notes - Australia & Ireland. Ring Binders containing ..Signalbox Development in New South Wales 1855-1912 by R A Taaffe, Signalbox Construction Materials in New South Wales 1912-1990 by R A Taaffe, Irish Signalling Notes 1982, detailed survey by R A Taaffe, Northern Ireland Railways "Sectional Appendix" with list of remote interlockings and ground frames in Ireland.
918	82	Dublin Main Line CTC manual, Dublin Suburban CTC Manual, three details print outs relating thereto, Dublin Suburban area resignalling, details for the temporary local panels.
919	358	Rule Books, Appendices and Weekly / Signalling Notices from Australia.	919
919A	215	Various Items from Dutch Railways.
920	357	Conference and Meetings Proceedings and technical correspondence.	920
921		Various Items from Dutch Railways.	921
1001-1003	42	Westinghouse catalogues & brochures
1004	43	MV-GRS, AEI-GRS & GEC-GRS catalogues & brochures
1005	43	SGE catalogues & brochures
1006	43	STC catalogues & brochures
1007-1008	44	IRSE documentation
1009 1010	45 46	Contractors' publicity material - overseas
1201	5	Digital Archive Items
L1-L3 L4-L5	1 6	BR(W) Signalbox Diagrams - on loan	L1-L5
C1		LMS / BR(LM) Collections	Drawer C1
C3		GW / BR(W) Collections	Drawer C3
C4		LNE / BR(E) Collections	Drawer C4
C4		BR(Sc) / LT / Other Collections	Drawer C4
C5		SR / BR(S) Collections	Drawer C5
C7		Crewe mechanical diagrams	Shelf C7
C9		Batts Collection - GWR lines	Shelf C9 Wr
C9		Batts Collection - LMS lines	Shelf C9 LMR
C9		Batts Collection - LNE lines	Shelf C9 ERr
C9		Batts Collection - contractors	Shelf C9 Contr
C9		Batts Collection - miscellaneous	Shelf C9 Misc
C10		Batts Collection - contractors & miscellaneous	Drawer C10
C11		Westbury area Diagrams	Shelf C11
S81		S&T Drawings for various Cornish Signal Boxes	Shelf S81

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Document Type Categories

Within the listings documents are coded so as to give an indication of what they will contain. These codes are set out here.

ARCH	Architectural drawing.
CIRC	Circuit diagram.
DET	Detection table - electrical and/or mechanical.
ELEC	Electrical control table.
LAYOUT	Layout diagram - plan showing track layout (not to scale) without signalling detail.
LEVER	Lever locking table - equivalent for an all-electric frame.
MAP	Map.
MECH	Mechanical locking - tables and/or chart.
MISC	Anything not covered in the other categories. Further explanation often included.
NUMB	Numbering plan - diagram showing numbers of functions, not to scale.
ROUTE	Route locking table.
SBD	Signalbox diagram - as displayed in the box, or an office copy of that.
SCALE	Scale plan of railway property.
SCHEME	Scheme diagram - plan showing (actual or proposed) alterations, typically with new work in red.
SK	Sketch diagram - properly drafted diagram, to scale longitudinally, showing track layout and full signalling details.

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