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Item No. 81256
LT&SR Plaistow. LMS 4-4-2T No. 2082. This locomotive was LT&SR No. 6, "Upton Park", MR No. 2115, then LMS No. 2205 in 1923 and then No. 2082 in 1929.
Item No. 77-12360
Large scale plan of Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway station at Clenchwarton printed on linen. Scale 40ft to 1 inch. Stamped 'Midland Railway Chief Engineer's Office' and signed off by a GNR official on 18.9.90. Appears to be in connection with new signal box, locking frame, signals, interlocking crossing gates and permanent way alterations. Plan No. 918
Item No. 09986
Luggage Label Type: M106/1
Form No: P. F. 70. Print Ref: R 2.
Destination: SWANSEA
Item No. 13515
19th Century receipt for food and drink from the Sun Inn at Eastwood where, on 16 August 1832, a meeting of Coalmasters decided to form the Midland Counties Railway.
Accompanied by a 2½” x 3” photograph of the frontage of the Sun Inn taken on 9th August 1938.
Item No. 67129
COPY POSTCARD / PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE JOHN ALSOP COLLECTION
SWYE - - - - - Severn Bridge - Glos. - Closed 1960 - Severn Bridge - - - - - Photochrom A.7867
John Alsop collection A 3881
Item No. 63846
Ex-Midland Railway Redditch station.
Item No. 65376
Cheltenham - platform level view of the down platform showing the footbridge and long canopies, Close up view of MR Lamp post. Milk churns to the right
Item No. 67510
COPY POSTCARD / PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE JOHN ALSOP COLLECTION
MR - Derby, Derbys. - Interior, Derby Station - Kingsway S4264
John Alsop collection A 1401
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