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For details of the collections download a draft Guide .

This page contains lists of those collections which have been listed.

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ARCHIVE LISTS

Much of the archive collection is not as yet listed including two of the largest collections, the Benguela Railway Collection and the H R Stones Photograph Collection. The Wilf Simms Collection has a hard copy index which is too big to be practical to add to this website, but may be consulted at Greenwich.

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For details of some of the other collections which have not yet been listed see the Guide to the Collections.

AFRICA EUROPE FAR EAST (INDIA ETC.) CENTRAL AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA UK

AFRICA

  1. Benguela Railway
  2. Central African Railway
  3. Companhia de Mossamedes
  4. Central South African Railway
  5. East African Railways and Harbours, Class 59 Garratt Drawings
  6. Grahamstown and Port Alfred Railway.
  7. Luanda Railway
  8. Malawi Railways Ltd
  9. Nigeria
  10. Porto Amboim Railway
  11. Rhodesia Railways
  12. South African Railways and Harbours Photographs. SAR Locomotive Parts Books
  13. Trans-Zambesi Railway
  14. Uganda Railway

EUROPE

  1. Letterkenny and Burtonport Railway
  2. Olot and Gerona Railway
  3. WW1 Western Front, Middle East etc.

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT ETC

  1. Bombay, Baroda & Central India Rly Co
  2. Ceylon Railway
  3. Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
  4. ISR, East Bengal Railway
  5. Ferderated Malay States Railways
  6. Madras Railway Co
  7. Pakistan Western Railway
  8. Scinde Railway

Indian Railway Study Group Archives held by BORHT.

CENTRAL AMERICA

  1. Costa Rica

SOUTH AMERICA

  1. Metropolitano (Argentina)
  2. Metrovias SA (Argentina)
  3. H R Stones Collection (Mostly Argentina & UK)
  4. C H Pearson Collection (Central Argentine Rly)
  5. Associação Brasileira de Preservação Ferroviario
  6. Nitrate Railways (Chile)
  7. Dorada Extension Railway (Colombia)
  8. Liversey & Henderson Peruvian Drawings
  9. The Bolivar Railway (Venezuela)

UK

  1. W G Bagnall Ltd
  2. Clayton Wagons Ltd
  3. Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company.
  4. Howroyd Collection of Electrification Reports. (Brazil, Pakistan, New Zealand, China, Israel)
  5. Kerr Stuart & Co Ltd
  6. Livesey & Henderson
  7. North British Locomotive Drawings
  8. H R Stones Collection (Mostly Argentina & UK)
  9. Bond and Share Certificates
  10. Family History Files
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