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| Collection Reference |
Collection Title |
Creator |
Abstract |
Creation dates | Extent and Form |
Catalogue availability |
| 85/40/1 | Capt. G. S. Parker | Capt. G. S. Parker | Material from his service with the Air Photographic Interpretation Detachment No.1, 14th Army: aerial photographs of Japanese railway installations and rolling stock in Burma and Thailand, 1943-5, together with ms and ts reports and explanatory notes (17pp); pictures and poster of a Japanese 'truck-loco' (a road vehicle adapted to run on rails); aerial photographs of railway installations in France (used as training material). | 1943-5 | 1 box | - |
| 02/20/1 | A. Pitt | A. Pitt | Photocopied ts memoir (43pp, illustrated) of his service with the South African Engineer Corps, including with the 47th Railway Survey Company, 1942-3, and the Survey and Bomb Disposal Section, Railway Construction Group in East and North Africa, Syria and Italy, 1943-5. | No date | 1 folder | - |
| 98/2/1 | Lieutenant Colonel H. Rudgard | Lt Cl H. Rudgard | Photocopies (30pp) of papers relating to his First World War service with the 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Forresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) TF (139th Brigade, 46th Division) attached to the Royal Engineers Light Railway Section in France, in which he served as superintendent of light railways for the 4th Army, and afterwards commanded workshops and depots at Beaurianville and Audruicq. Including a short ts history of the light railway workshops, maps of railways around the Western Front, ms notes on 4th Army train operations and photographs. | c1914 - 1918 | 1 folder | - |
| 01/41/3 | Colonel S. O. Screen OBE | Col S. O. Screen | 10 files of his official papers from his service as Deputy Director of Freight Movements (Home), part of the Directorate of Movements at the War Office in London, 1939-45, comprising: 5 files of ts weekly reports of materials transported in the UK for British, Canadian and US armed forces, chiefly by rail, 1941-5; 2 files of Movement Instructions (Stores), 1940-5; file of Movement Instructions in the event of invasion, 1940-4; file of ts memoranda relating to the movement of armoured fighting vehicles in Britain, 1941-5; file of ts minutes of Assistant Quartermaster General's Conferences and ts correspondence on policy and organisation of the Directorate of Movements, 1940-5. Also 5 instruction booklets and Col Screen's paper "Home Freight Movement, War Department, 1939-1945" reprinted from Journal of the Institute of Transport, 1945. | 1929 - 1945 | 3 boxes | - |
| CES | Captain C. E. R. Sherrington OBE MC | Capt C. E. R. Sherrington | File of papers relating to his service in the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 1916. File of papers concerning train services, movements, locomotives and wagons, collected during his service in France as Railway Transport Officer, Vendroux, 1917-19. File of German railway documents, 1914-18. File of papers from his service as Secretary of the Railway Research Service during the period that it was placed under War Office control, 1939-45, chiefly concerning the planning for bombing of railway targets in enemy-occupied Europe, with some later private correspondence. | 1916-70 | 4 files | Repository 12pp hard copy |
| Misc 11 (233) | Miscellaneous 233 | - | Official report (20pp) on the economic effect of air attacks on the German inland communication system, including railways, in the Second World War | c1945 | 1 folder | - |
| Misc 62 (963) | Miscellaneous 963 | - | Ts War Office message (1p) to the Southern Region HQ concerning Operation Dynamo and the approximate numbers of men requiring railway transport from the South Coast ports following the evacuation from Dunkirk, 1940. | 1940 | 1 folder | - |
| Misc 89 (1300) | Miscellaneous 1300 | LMSR | 12 ts letters, 1941-3, concerning the reclamation of rusty pins from LMS Railway Company files, so as to save scarce metal. | 1940 - 43 | 1 folder | - |
| Misc Con Shelf (1692) | Miscellaneous 1692 | - | Ts reports (78pp), extensively illustrated with original photographs, on evaluation of damage to major railway installations in central and southern Germany, 1945. | 1945 | 1 folder | - |
| Misc 161 (2474) | Miscellaneous 2474 | Private E. Blanchard | Printed booklet "General Regulations for Signals on the Northern Railway of France" (text in English and French), issued to Private E. Blanchard, an engine driver employed by the Railway Operating Department during the First World War, with 2 photographs of him in uniform. | c1914 - 1918 | 1 folder | - |
| Misc 183 (2763 & 2763A) | Miscellaneous 2763 | - | Papers relating to the occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces, 1940-5, including maps of German plans for a military railway on Guernsey. | 1940 - 1945 | 1 folder | - |
| Misc 82 (1246) | Miscellaneous 1246 | - | 24 ts letters concerning cooling tests carried out on Cruiser Mark V and Covenanter II Tanks by the LMSR, 1940-2. | 1940 - 1942 | 1 folder | - |
| Misc 86 (1277) | Miscellaneous 1277 | - | Ts correspondence and report on methods of fog disposal over airfields, 1934-46, including papers on experiments with coke burning carried out by the LMSR. | 1936 - 1946 | 1 folder | - |
| Misc 87 (1278) | Miscellaneous 1278 | - | Ts correspondence, reports, blueprints and ms experimental notes concerning the development by the LMSR of rocket-assisted runways to launch bombs in such a way that it simulated the striking conditions they would experience falling from aircraft, 1942-7. | 1942 - 1947 | 1 folder | - |