What you can discover
The Archives hold an impressive range of manuscripts, records, photographs, maps and printed books.
They cover the history of railways in Southern England from the early 19th century to the present day. The collection is currently held in a building near Dorking, Surrey and is available for viewing by appointment.
Extensive railway archive
Containing in excess of 150,000 photographs and 15,000 documents.
Including personal memoires, correspondence, signal box diagrams, public and working timetables, special traffic notices, locomotive and carriage drawings and an ever expanding library of books and articles.
We hold thousands of public and working timetables in our collection. They date from the dawn of the first railways right up to the present day. Also, we have a collection of 2500 2.5 inch OS maps covering Kent to Cornwall at various dates in the last century.
