http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk A free online archive of key historical documents relating to the history of the UK's railways en-gb Fri, 24 May 2013 04:06:27 GMTFri, 24 May 2013 04:06:27 GMT railwaysRSS v3.0 archivist@railwaysarchive.co.uk (Archivist) archivist@railwaysarchive.co.uk (Archivist) © railwaysarchive.co.uk (all rights reserved) 15 http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/siteimages/mainlogoshort.png http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk Earlier this month John Charnley uploaded the accident report which took us to 50% of all the available UK reports - a major milestone in our 8 year history!http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=46Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:16:55 GMThttp://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=46David, you got in touch with us, but the email address you gave is not working. Please contact us again with a valid email - thanks.http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=43Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:34:46 GMThttp://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=43The National Railway Museum have kindly donated to us a set of 46 HMRI accident reports which are duplicated in their collection. The reports date from between 1952 and 1979. The Archive already has all of these reports as PDFs; and since we do not have a physical archive we are now auctioning them off as a set to raise funds for the ongoing web hosting costs which we have to pay to keep the collection online. The full list of reports is available here: Report Listing The reports are a mix of standard blue-cover items and uncovered paper copies. Condition is generally good, some rusty staples but very little damage otherwise. The auction is by sealed envelope bid. Please email your bid to me here: contact us here. Please mark your email subject "report auction bid" include the following information: - your full name - how much you are offering excluding postage and packing - where the item would be posted to The bidding will run for a minimum of one week from the posting of this message. We reserve the right to extend the bidding period, cancel the auction altogether or refuse individual bids. Priority may be given to bids which include an explanation of how the collection will be kept together. Please note that we will be adding £5 to your bid to cover postage and packing for addresses in the UK. Delivery will be first class recorded delivery to the UK. No returns will be accepted. Overseas bids will be considered and postage will be at cost for those locations. Payment will be to the RA paypal account, and the items will not be posted until payment has been received.http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=42Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:32:40 GMThttp://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=42Good news - after many years of trying we have finally sourced and published the Black Diamond Review, which resulted in the overnight doubling of the costs of the West Coast Route Modernisation. Much kudos for Network Rail nd ORR for having the clear-sightedness to release this to us.http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=41Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:29:39 GMThttp://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=41Many thanks to Graham Teal for spotting a newly-scanned Board of Trade volume on Google Books. Thanks to his keen eye we now have another 75 reports from 1867 and 1868 in our publishing pipeline. If you spot a google books entry you think we haven't got please get in touch!http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=40Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:38:07 GMThttp://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=40Well done to Barry Turvin, who has found another Board of Trade accident volume on Google Books. This is no mean feat given Google Books inexplicably bad search tools. This means we have a further 83 reports from 1869 and 1870 in our intray! If anyone else finds BoT accident returns on Google Books we would be very pleased to hear from you.http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=39Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:07:31 GMThttp://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=39A chance encounter with Colin Marsdens book Rail Mishaps last month led me to send a speculative email to Colin. The result is that Colin has kindly agreed to allow us to use high-res copies of his superb accident images on the site.http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=38Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:30:23 GMThttp://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=38A chance encounter with Colin Marsden's book Rail Mishaps last month led me to send a speculative email to Colin. The result is that Colin has kindly agreed to allow us to use high-res copies of his superb accident images on the site. For examples of his work, look here, here and here. Thanks very much Colin. If you like his work please support him by buying a copy of his book.http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=37Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:30:16 GMThttp://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=37A chance encounter with Colin Marsden's book 'Rail Mishaps' last month led me to send a speculative email to Colin. The result is that Colin has kindly agreed to allow us to use high-res copies of his superb accident images on the site. For examples of his work, look here, here and here. Thanks very much Colin. If you like his work please support him by buying a copy of his book.http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=36Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:29:55 GMThttp://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=36It looks like we had some glitches over the last few days, sorry. Our web host rolled over to a new version of the software which underpins the site, and some functions which we were using no longer work. The good news is the problems are fixed now. We think!http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=35Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:09:58 GMThttp://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/sitenews.php?sitenewsID=35