The Signalling Record Society

Archive Boxes Listed

Each of the numbered archive boxes is listed below as are the contents of certain shelves in the archives.

There is a floor plan of the archive available and copies may also be seen at the archive itself. The letter / number combinations on the plan relate to the shelf numbers in the listings below.

You can Download the detailed Catalogue here.

**The List of Archive Boxes**
Box	Shelf	Contents
41-43	F26	Accident reports
44	A14	Accident reports 1960-90
51 51B	G1	Appendices: LMSR, Chester & Birkenhead, Severn & Wye, Shrewsbury & Hereford
52	G1	Appendices: BR, London Midland Region, 1960-1968
53	G2	Appendices: BR, London Midland Region, 1969-1985
54 54A 54B	G4 G2	Appendices, Loose Leaf, 1986 et seq.
54C	C34	Appendices, Loose Leaf, 1986 et seq.
55	G5	Appendices: BR General
55A	G5	Appendices: LMSR, GWR, BR London Midland & Western Region men working over other lines
55B	G5	Appendices: LNER, SR, BR Eastern, North Eastern & Southern Region men working over other lines
56	G6	Appendices: LBSCR, LSWR, SECR, Southern, BR Southern Region
56A	G6	Appendices: BR Scottish Region
56B	G6	Appendices: Somerset & Dorset
57	G6	Appendices: BR Western Region Before 1960
58	G3	Appendices: BR Western Region 1960-1968
58A	G3	Appendices: BR Western Region 1969-1982
59	G3	Appendices: LNER, BR Eastern Region, M&GN
60	G3	Appendices: BR Eastern & Anglia Regions
61	G7	Appendices: LNER, BR Eastern & North Eastern Regions
62	G7	Appendices: BR loose-leaf plus various books of instructions
63	G7	Block Regulations
64	G4	Miscellaneous Instruction Books including Rule Books
65		Box numbers currently not in use.
66 66A	G20 G8	Signal Box Opening Hours.
67-70		Box numbers currently not in use.
71	G18	Betts files - quite a variety
72	G18	Miscellaneous Instructions ex Porchester Road
73 73A	G20 G21	Signalling Notices: Great Western Railway, British Railways Western Region, British Railways Inter City (Western Lines), Railtrack (Western), Network Rail (Western), Dart Valley Railway. See list for what is in which box.
74 74A 74B 74C	G20 G19 G19 G18	Signalling Notices: London & North Western Railway, London Midland & Scottish Railway, British Railways London Midland Region, British Railways Business Sectors, Railtrack Midland, North West Zones, Network Rail London North Western Zone.
75	G21	LT Signalling Notices including some complete traffic circulars containing signalling changes. Also Metropolitan Railway.
76 76A 76B 76C	G22 G22 G19 G19	Signalling Notices: Great Eastern; Great Northern; London & North Eastern; British Railways Anglia, Eastern and North Eastern areas; Railtrack Anglia and Eastern areas; Network Rail Anglia and Eastern areas. See list for what is in which box.
77 77B 77C 77D 77E 77F 77G 77H	G23 G22 E1 E1 E1 E1 E1 E1	Signalling Notices: London & South Western Railway; London Brighton & South Coast Railway; London Chatham & Dover Railway; South Eastern Railway; South Eastern and Chatham & Dover Railways; South Eastern & Chatham Railway; Southern Railway; British Railways, Southern Region; British Railways Business Sectors; Railtrack and Network Rail, Southern lines; Bluebell Railway. See list for what is in which box.
77A	G23	Signalling Notices - SR & BR(S) rolled plans on linen - list for box 77 is annotated to indicate which ones are here as well
77J	E1	Southern Region Supplementary Operating Instructions
77K	E1	Southern Railway Signalling Notices. Digital copies are on Research Note 37.
78	G23	Modern Rule Books
79	C31	S&T installation and maintenance instructions
80	G21	Electrified Lines Working Instructions
81	F26	BR(LM) Supplementary Operating Instructions.
82 82A	G22 G22	Signalling Notices Scotland: British Railways, Railtrack, Network Rail.
83	F26	BR(W) and BR(Sc) Supplementary Operating Instructions.
84	D26	BR(E) and BR(NE) Supplementary Operating Instructions.
90	C29	Parliamentary, Government, Board of Trade, Ministry of Transport and British Standards Institute.
99	F27	Reg's Mystery Box of various operating publications pending sorting further. No catalogue detail available.
100	F27	IRSE Green Books, almost a complete set. No catalogue detail available.
101-104 105-108 109-112 113-116	F20 F21 F22 F23	Cullum Collection of signal box diagrams, office copies - SECR lines.
125-128 129-132	F24 F13	Cullum Collection of signal box diagrams, office copies - LBSCR lines.
150-153 154-157 158-159 160-161 162-164	F14 F15 F16 F17 F18	Cullum Collection of signal box diagrams, office copies - LSWR lines.
164	F18	Cullum Collection of Marks sheets - LSWR lines.
165	F9	Cullum Collection of Special Box Instructions - SECR lines.
166	F9	Cullum Collection of Special Box Instructions - LBSCR lines.
167	F18	Cullum Collection of Special Box Instructions - LSWR lines.
188-190 191-193	D29 D8	Carr Collection - LSWR lines
194	F28	Cullum Collection - Additional Items.
195	F8	Cullum Collection - BR(S) Area Plans.
196 197	F8 B2	Cullum Collection - SR Rules Section correspondence files.
198	F8	Cullum Collection - miscellaneous
199	D39	Cullum Collection - Signal Notices Indexes
200 to 205		Box numbers not in use.
206-207	F9	Wagstaff Bequest - folders
208	D44	Cullum collection - miscellaneous
209	F12	Hillier collection, Southern Region items
210 210A 210B 210C	D9 D12 D9 D1	SR / BR(S) Collections
211	C26	Pryer Collection - SR diagrams etc
212-213	A11 C24	Kadwell Collection, Southern items
214-215	B22 C23	Elms Collection - SR diagrams
216 217 218	C2 C3 **	Cullum collection - miscellaneous The material in these boxes is available on CD (Research Notes 37 and 38). For availability and prices please visit our Bookstall.
219	B43	Talbot Collection - SR diagrams
220	C2	BR(S) microfilmed diagrams The material in these boxes is available on CD (Research Note 41). For availability and price please visit our Bookstall.
221	F9	Talbot Collection - SR Diagrams
221X	F9	Talbot Collection - Non SR Diagrams (stored inside box 221)
222	D29	Southern Region items from Martin Elms, Bluebell Railway and M Pope. Three Eastern Region Items from Martin Elms.
223	C11	J J Smith Collection, Southern Region Diagrams.
224	D24	LBSCR Signal Box Index Cards. Not catalogued but copies available in the Wagstaff series of books.
225 225A 225B	C/D F13 C/D	Southern Railway & Southern Region Rolled Diagrams.
226	B29	Chris Woolstenholmes Collection Southern Region Signalmen's Instructions.
227	C/D	S & D J R rolled diagrams.
228	B16	SR & BR(SR) Signalmen's Instructions.
229	D47	Wimbledon Lever Label Registers.
230	F12	Wimbledon Index Books.
231 232 233	F12 F30 F12	David Barnes & Jon Samways Collections. Signal Box Diagrams and other material.
234 235	F2 **	Cullum Collection. Extracts from weekly notices. No catalogue - the entire content is included in Research Note 39.
301 302 303 304	A16 A16 A16 A17	Batts Collection - GWR lines
305	A8	Various BR(W) diagrams
306 307-308	A8 C11	Carr Collections - GWR lines transferred to BR(S). No catalogue detail available.
309	B38	BR(W) Standard Drawings. No catalogue detail available.
310	D3	GWR London Division Classification of SBs. No catalogue detail available.
311	**	GWR & BR(W) Signal Dept Mechanical Drawings Index. No catalogue detail available.
312 313	D14 B38	John Morris Collection - BR(W) Diagrams (paper copies of drawings available from the Drawing Office).
314 315	B5 A15	John Morris Collection - BR(W) Miscellaneous Papers.
316	A19	John Morris Collection - BR(W) Locking Charts.
317		Box number currently not in use.
318	D47	Correspondence Files - Swindon & Frome S&T. No catalogue detail available.
319	C13	Cardani collection - London area.
320	C13	Cardani collection - Reading/Gloucester areas.
321	C6	Cardani collection - Bristol, Plymouth & Birmingham areas.
322	C6	Cardani collection - South Wales area.
323	C7	Cardani collection - Technical Instructions
324 325 325A 325B 325C 325D	D10 D3 D3 D2 D16 D9	GWR / BR(W) Collections
326	A18	Maiden Collection - WR diagrams
327	B13	Collins Collection - WR diagrams
328	C4	Hallett Collection, Western items
329 330	D17 C17	Alan Horner Collection, Western items
331-331A	F19	Alan Jarvis Collection, South Wales items
332-333	D31	South Devon & Cornwall dog charts
334	F28	Westbury area signalling plans
335 335A 336 336A 337 337A 337B 337C	C/D C/D F13 C/D F19 F19 C/D C/D	GWR / BR(W) rolled diagrams
338	A15	Alan Price Collection - GWR and BR-WR items.
339	C/D	BR (WR) rolled diagrams
340 341	F1 B7	GWR & BR (WR) rolled diagrams
342	C/D	BR (WR) Panel Box diagrams
343 344-346 347	B27 B34 B33	BR(W) Signalbox Diagrams
348	B1	Westbury etc area signalling plans
349	C/D	GWR / BR(W) Collections
350	C45	Chris Woolstenholmes Collection - British Railways Western Region items.
351	C45	Dagger Collection - British Railways Western Region diagrams, drawings, and sketches.
352	A8	British Railways Western Region Mechanical Drawings in range MB30-MB5984.
353-355	F19	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Bristol Division.
356-357	F19	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Vale of Neath lines.
358 358A	F19 B15	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Port Talbot and Rhondda & Swansea Bay Railways.
359-360	F19	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Worcester Division.
361	F19	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. North & West line.
362	F19	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Severn & Wye Lines.
363-364	F19	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Plymouth Division.
365-366	F19	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Exeter Division.
367-369	F25	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. South Wales Main Line.
370	F19	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Gloucester District.
372	F25	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Llynvi & Ogmore section.
374-375 375A-375B	F25 B15	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Swansea District.
376-377 377A-377B	F25 B16	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Newport area.
378-379 379A-379B	F25 B38	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Taff Vale Railway.
380-381 381A-381B	F25 B15	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Other constituent companies.
382 383 384	C37 C26 bay CD	Great Western Railway and British Railways Western Region Signal Box Diagrams.
386	B2	Great Western Railway London Division additional instructions.
387-393	Area G	John Morris Signal Box Records.
394-398	A8 & Drawer G11	Shrewsbury S & T Collection.
399	B13	Shrewsbury S & T Collection.
501-502	C37	Batts Collection - LMS & Joint lines
503 504 505	B26 B28 C37	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.
506 507 508	C44	John Swift Collection - LNW/LMS S&T Record Sketches
509	B9	Cheshire - South Lancashire area drawings
510	B9	LMS & BR(LM) Technical Papers - S&T Instructions, Guidance Notes, Principles. No catalogue detail available.
511	F10	BR(LM) Power Box Guides - ex Birmingham S&T
512-514 515-518	F10 F11	BR(LM) S&T Plans - ex Birmingham S&T
519	F11	BR(LM) S&T Plans - GW lines - ex Birmingham S&T
520	D44	Watts Collection - BR(LM) & BR(E)
521	C39	Brenholz Collection - mostly technical but includes extracts from 3-5-5 magazine. No catalogue detail available.
522 522A	D38 A15	Swift notebooks (one catalogue, content now split over two boxes)
523	C12	Cardani Collection - LMR south
524	C12	Cardani Collection - LMR north
525-526 526A 526B 526C 526D 526E 526F	D11 D11 D12 D10 D6 D37 C37	LMS / BR(LM) Collections
527	C34	Collins Collection - LMR diagrams
528-530 531-533 534-536 537-539 540-542 543-545 546	B10 B11 B3 B4 B24 B31 B25	BR(LM) S&T Plans - ex Birmingham S&T
547	D39	J J Smith Collection - BR (LM) diagrams
548	B22	Mike Norris Collection - BR (LM) diagrams
549 549A 549B 549C	F13 C/D C/D F19	BR (LM) rolled diagrams
550	C1	BR (LM) diagrams (South Midlands)
551-556 557-562 563-568 569	A12 A13 A20 F27	BR(LM) S&T Correspondence Files. 551-569
570 571	C10 D10	Chris Woolstenholmes Collection. BR (LMR) Items
572	C46	Alan Roberts Collection. Chester & North Wales Area Newsletters. No catalogue required
573	B23	Cumbria Diagrams and supplementary instructions
574	C/D	Settle & Carlisle rolled diagrams
575	A9	Crewe & North Wales rolled diagrams
576	A16	BR(LM) S&T Plans - ex Birmingham S&T, also route diagrams
577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585	D40 C15 C5 C5 D13 F3 A16 F5 F27	BR(LM) S&T Plans - ex Manchester S&T
586 587	B23 C/D	BR(LM) rolled diagrams
588	A17	Brian Whitehouse Collection: BR(LM) notebooks and diagrams.
589 590	A17 C40	Geoff Goslin Collection, St Pancras to Leicester.
591 592	C/D A11	Dunbar Collection, Great Central, London North Eastern and London Midland Diagrams, Manchester area and west of Pennines.
593	D37	Graham Warburton Collection, Research Notes.
594 595 596 597 598 599	F4 F4 F4 F3 B30 B30	LMS & BR(M) Signal Sighting Forms.
600	B29	British Railways Midland Region Train Register Books.
601	D1	Ian Thompson Collection. British Railways London Midland Region scheme plans, location plans &c.
602-603	F13	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. Former LMSR lines
604	F7	National Railway Museum Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts. Midland lines
606	F01	National Railway Museum Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts. London & North Western lines
608-610 611 612-613	F13 C43 F8	Trevor Moseley Collection of rolled diagrams.
614	B19	Jack Cooper London & North Western collection.
615 615A	F6 F6	LMSR / BR(LM) Track Circuit records.
616	D26	Peter Smith Collection of plans and correspondence from Skipton S&T.
617	F9	Geoff Holmes Collection of Cumbrian diagrams.
618-619	C32	Geoff Holmes Collection of Cumbrian train register books.
620	F7	Leicester area diagrams.
622-623	E2	Ross Clavell Collection: Mechanical interlocking.
627A,628A	B/C	Robert Mills Collection Collection: Manchester area Scheme diagrams.
629-634	D/E	Robert Mills Collection Collection: Manchester area Scheme diagrams.
635	D/E	Train register books, LMSR area.
636	B/C	Robert Mills Collection, scheme diagrams.
637	D/E	Robert Mills Collection, other diagrams.
638	A/B	Sgrewsbury S&T Collection.
701-706	C30	BR(E) Correspondence re closure of lines.
707	A10	Signalling Plans - LTS lines.
708	B8	Batts Collection - LNE lines.
709-710 711-712	A10 D25	S&T Plans & Signalbox Diagrams - GN & GE lines.
713 713A 714 714A 715 716-717	C10 C22 F5 B6 B5 B40	S&T Plans & Signalbox Diagrams - BR(E).
718	C19	BR(E) Power Box Records.
719 720 720A 720B 720C	D5 D4 D5 D16 D16	LNE / BR(E) Collections.
721	A18	Collins Collection - ER diagrams.
722 723	B30 D18	East Anglia Signalmen's Instructions.
724	C/D	GE Lines (London area) diagrams
725-726	B32	Alan Foulner collection - SB diagrams etc
727	B6	Alan Foulner collection - NER track diagrams
728 728A 728B	C/D	LNER / BR-ER Rolled Diagrams
729	B27	BR(E) S&T Plans - ex Birmingham S&T
730	F27	John Talbot Collection - BR(E) S&T Plans
731 732 733 734 735 736	B46 C16 A11 A18 B18 D17	Chris Woolstenholmes Collection - BR(E) Box Records, Circuit Diagrams & Scheme Plans
737	**	John Boyes Collection - BR(E) Rolled Plans
738 739 741	E4 B40 B28	BR(E) S&T Plans ex York S&T
740	B14	BR(E) Surplus Capacity Files
742 743 744	D40 D48 D23	East Anglia Signalling Diagrams - Roger Kingstone collection.
745	C/D	Doncaster Grammar School Collection: Rolled Diagrams.
746 747 748	F5 D20 D19	Doncaster Grammar School Collection.
749	F26	Colin Kaye Collection: BR(E) photographs and architectural drawings.
750	F01	National Railway Museum Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts. Great Eastern lines
751 752	F1 F1	National Railway Museum Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts. Great Central lines
753 754 754A	F1 F7 F7	National Railway Museum Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts. Great Northern lines
755-756	F01	National Railway Museum Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts. North Eastern lines, Southern section.
757-758	F01	Reading S & T Collection of Signal Box Diagrams and related charts, ex National Railway Museum. North Eastern lines, Northern section.
760	C16	British Railways Eastern Region Train Register Books.
761 761A	D36 D36	David Underwood Collection.
762	C4	Chris Wolstenholmes / John Boyes Collection.
763-763A	F07	Neil Mackay Collection.
764	D44	John Foreman Collection of signal box diagrams, Eastern Region.
901	B33	HSE level crossing files - LMR
902-903	B33	HSE level crossing files - ER
904	B33	HSE level crossing files - ER, WR, SR, NER
905 906-910	B33 B12	HSE level crossing files - ScR
911	B12	HSE level crossing files - ScR, light railways
912	B12	HSE level crossing files - private railways
913	D4	BR(Sc) / LT / Other Collections
913A	D13	BR(Sc) / LT / Other Collections
914 915	E6 A10	Guest Collection - notebooks, all regions
916	C3	Collins Collection - Scottish Region diagrams
917	E3	R A Taaffe Collection. New South Wales & Ireland.
918	E7	Dublin Main Line CTC Papers.
919	C7	Rule Books, Appendices and Weekly / Signalling Notices from Australia.
920	D18	Conference and Meetings Proceedings and technical correspondence.
921	C46	Various Items from Dutch Railways.
922	C/D	Kent & East Sussex Railway Diagrams.
923	C/D	BR Scottish Region rolled diagrams.
924	B18	London Underground Line Plans.. No catalogue detail available.
925 926 926A	C49 D35 **	Chris Woolstenholmes Collection - Train Register Books
927 928	C38 D1	Darroll Pardoe collection - USA material
929	B35	British Railways Standard Signalling Equipment Diagrams
930	B32	Switzerland
931	E5	Gwili Railway Museum Collection - Train Register Books (not relevant to Gwili area)
932	C9	John Boyes & John Talbot Notebooks
933 933A	B19 A22	Matt Saunders' Photograph Albums - all areas. No catalogue detail available.
934 to 951	A1 to A7 also A/B	Michael Back Collection: Sketches and signalling diagrams of most, if not all, signal boxes in England, Scotland and Wales. Arranged aphabetically.
952	D-E	Bruce Bennett Collection.
954	C4	Tony Cornell Collection of files relating to level crossings, signals passed at danger, quality and techincal details of track circuits.
955	C3	J P R Bennett Collection of Scottish Diagrams.
956 & 957	A16	Bob Ballard Collection of Signal Box Equipment records.
958	Area G	Graham Maxtone Collection of Northern Scottish locking diagrams.
959	D12	John Tilly Collection, Dissertation “Level Crossings on Rural Railways” and supporting papers.
1001 1002-1003	A18 A19	Westinghouse catalogues & brochures
1004	A19	MV-GRS, AEI-GRS & GEC-GRS catalogues & brochures
1005	A19	SGE catalogues & brochures
1006	A19	STC catalogues & brochures
1007-1008	**	IRSE documentation
1009-1010 1011	A21 A14	Contractors' publicity material - overseas
1012 1013	A14 A23	Contractors' publicity material, catalogues and technical documents
1014-1015	A21	Westinghouse Catalogues
1016	A17	Contractors Publications
Drawer	G9	John Batts Collection. Circuit diagrams.
Drawer	G10	John Batts Collection. Westbury panel diagrams.
Drawer	G15	BR(LM) Mechanical Drawings
Drawer	G28	Graham Warburton Collection. LNWR, LYR, Caledonian signal drawings
Drawer	G29	Graham Warburton Collection. LMSR signal drawings
Drawer	G30	Graham Warburton Collection. Midland signal drawings.
Drawer	G31	Graham Warburton Collection. LMSR & consituents signal drawings.
Drawer	G32	Circuit Diagrams, Salop Goods Junction dated 23 August 1985, reference CW2201.
Drawer	G33	Great Western Bristol Division Marks Sheets.
Shelf	B44	John Talbot Photograph Albums
Shelf	D34 D41 D26 D32	Graham Warburton Collection Photograph Albums

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