Acts of Parliament relating to the formation and expansion of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, the Midland Counties Railway Company, the Great Western Railway Company and the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, with two Acts relating to the formation of railways in general.

Correspondence between Sir Thomas Troubridge and others on a proposed link between a ferry and Irish railways at Blacksod Bay [County Mayo, Ireland] for the fishing trade, with plan of the bay showing the proposed new rail route.

Mainly subject files, consisting of papers and correspondence received by JEP, but also including some Conservative policy and Shadow Cabinet papers.

Mainly subject files, consisting of papers and correspondence received by JEP, but also including some Conservative policy and Shadow Cabinet papers.

The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

A circular sent by a shareholder to the other shareholders of the Great Western Railway on the need to change gauge while Government aid is available.

Correspondence between members of the Railway Gauge Commission and the general public concerning the commission. The papers include statistics of the railways, plans and measures of the engines, manuscript and printed recommendations of the Commission, and extracts from newspaper articles.

Correspondence between the Railway Gauge Commission and the railway companies, including manuscripts to supplement the interviews and miscellaneous papers on experiments between broad and narrow gauges and other subjects.

Correspondence with J. Washington, J.C. Clark and C.V. Walker and others regarding the time ball at Deal. There is also a plan of the magnets of the Deal Time Ball and two maps of the South Eastern Railway and connecting railways in Europe.

Subjects include: the Clapham Junction rail accident [London]; food safety, relating to salmonella in eggs; campaigns against the Poll Tax; the alleged involvement of British soldiers in training the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Briefing notes, programme and press-cuttings for NK’s visit to BREL (British Rail Engineering Ltd, Derby) and Nottingham before the local elections.

A booklet titled 'Dialogues of the Gauges', containing four imaginary conversations between two railway tracks, one broad and one narrow. The author is unknown.

A book by R. Stephenson on 'Double Gauge Railways', with several diagrams.

A promotional booklet for the Great Western Railway titled 'Experimental trip of the Great Western New Locomotive Passenger Engine, made on the 13th June 1846. Extracted from the 'Morning Herald' of June 15'.

A volume concerning the gauge question titled 'Gauge Evidence. The History and Prospects of the Railway System, illustrated by the evidence given before the Gauge Commission. By Samuel Sidney'.

An undated map showing the effect of laying the narrow gauge in addition to the broad gauge between Oxford, Basingstoke and London.

'Report of the Directors of the Great Western Railway Company to the Proprietors' - a report to shareholders stating the position of the Great Western Railway in comparison with rival railways.

Minutes of interviews held by the Railway Gauge Commission, 6 August - 4 September 1845. The interviewees are R. Stephenson, J. Locke, J.E. McConnell, Col. G. Landmann, H. Pringle, M. Bruyeres, A. Martin, W. Cubitt, Captain J. Milligan Laws, T.J. Buckton and J. Gray.

Minutes of interviews held by the Railway Gauge Commission, 17-30 October 1845. The interviewees are D. Gooch, S. Clarke, C.A. Saunders, I.K. Brunel, W. Fernihough, W. Harding and B.W. Horne.

Minutes of interviews held by the Railway Gauge Commission 1 November - 18 December 1845. The interviewees are T. Whitaker, J. Sanders, I.K. Brunel, W. Bass, E. Wood, N. Wood, R. Down, G. Hudson, T. Jackson and Major General C.W. Pasley.

Printed minutes of the Railway Gauge Commission interviews corrected by the interviewees who appear in RGO 6/285-287. Other interviewees are C.B. Vignoles, J.U. Rastrick, E. Bury, J. Braithwaite, Captain W. O'Brien, T.C. Mills, G. Rodmer, Captain M. Huish, E. Jones, R. Creed, P. Clarke, J. Brown, R. Roberts, W.J. Chaplin, J. Hawkshaw, J. Ellis, J. Hayward, J.P. Budd, General Sir J.W. Gordon and Major Sir J.F. Burgoyne.

Proof sheets of the minutes of interviews held by the Railway Gauge Commission, including some duplicates. The latter portion has been revised by Sir F. Smith and others appear to have been corrected by the interviewees.

Printed minutes of interviews held by the Railway Gauge Commission, with an appendix.