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. There are two basic tiers of copyright material contained within the site.

Source Material

The first tier concerns the documents which have been used to create PDF files, and those PDF files which have been copied from another website. 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.

Licenses granted to the Railways Archive can be viewed at the links below:

License from Strategic Rail Authority
 
Many of our documents are Crown Copyright. Our Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland, under our core document license number C02W0005088.

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.

In the event that permission to publish is refused, we shall 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.

Material Created by the Railways Archive

The second tier concerns the text and images within the site, and those PDF files which have been created by the Railways Archive from source material. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 England & Wales License. This gives users of the site certain rights in relation to re-use of the material, while placing restrictions on commercial use or modifications to the items. To find out more visit the license summary.

Details of the copyright holder for both the source material and the PDF file created from it can be found on the summary page for each document. PDF files which have been created by the Railways Archive, and which are subject to the Creative Commons license are denoted by the following logo on the document summary page:

Material from the site which is re-used shall be attributed with the following statement:

"Material licensed for re-use by The Railways Archive. See www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/copyright.php for license details."

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.