Locomotives
Details of locomotive classes, drawings (where available) and photographs
Electrification
Liverpool to Southport 1904
Manchester to Bury & Holcombe Brook 1915
Electric locomotives
Signalling and
Weekly Traffic Notices
Signals, Signal Boxes and Weekly Traffic notices controlling the operation
The Great War
1914 - 1918
A record of the contribution made by the L&Y and its employees including lists of those killed in action
Papers to Learned Institutions & Patent Documents
Papers given by LYR Officers
Patents taken out by LYR staff or used by them
Private Owner Wagons
A list of the Private Owner wagon fleets registered with the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway
Photographs
A selection of photos from the Society Collection covering a wide variety of locations and items of interest
Carriages, Wagons
and Road Vehicles
Order details, diagrams, drawings and photographs of LYR rolling stock, road vehicles and platform trucks
Working Timetables (WTT) Appendices to WTT
WTTs and the Appendices to the WTT which contain a mass of operational details as to how the railway operated on a day to day basis
Infrastructure
Permanent Way, Architecture and Civil Engineering
Parliamentary, Legal & Financial
Acts of Parliament, Shares, Shareholder Meetings
LYR Chronology
1825 - 2013
A chronological list of many of the key events in the history of the L&Y and its successors
Contemporary Journal Extracts
Over 2500 live links to Grace’s Guide of articles and extracts from The Engineer and The Electrical Review
Tickets, Parcels & Waybills
To be added.
Public Timetables,
Publicity, Excursions
and Tourism
Timetables, Publicity Leaflets, Advertising and Promotional Booklets
Operational & General
Staff Documents and
Public Correspondence
Instructions to Staff, Correspondence with the Public
Horwich Works, Newton Heath Works, & other LYR facilities
Manufacturing locos, wagons, carriages, road vehicles etc
Accident Reports
A chronological list of Board of Trade Reports into accidents on the L&Y
Shipping
The L&Y was the largest railway owned shipping fleet with 31 vessels operating from both west and east coast ports
Book List
A list of standard texts on the history of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway
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