The Railways Archive takes the issue of copyright very seriously. For this reason, and to avoid any confusion, we have published this copyright policy statement.

The Railways Archive contains material including text, photographs and other images, which is protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property rights.

All copyright and other intellectual property rights for this material have been licensed to the Railways Archive by the owner(s) of those rights so that it can use the material as part of this web site.

Many of our documents are Crown Copyright. Our Crown Copyright material is reproduced under our OPSI click-use license C02W0005088. Users wishing to reproduce these items may require an OPSI click-use license. For further explanation, please see this.

For documents not under Crown Copyright, we will make all reasonable attempts to contact the copyright holder and obtain permission to publish the document. If, despite all reasonable efforts, we cannot trace the copyright holder, we will publish the document, in the hope that no offence will be caused to the author or publisher.

Details of the copyright holder can be found on the summary page for each document. You may not remove any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property notices contained in the original material from any material copied or printed off from the website.

In the event that permission to publish is refused, we will provide a link to the source document where possible.

Any copyright holder wishing to query the material can get in touch with us using our email form.

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