Railway records are an essential, but often neglected source for local history, family history and social history. Timetables, for example, can reveal not only the working and leisure pursuits of populations, but may contain interesting advertisements (for example NRS reference BR/RSR/4) and other publicity material.
Railway Company Staff and Related Records in NRS
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NRS reference
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Description
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Dates
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BR/NBR/15/1-94
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North British Railway staff registers
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1844-1948
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BR/NBR/4/316/1-139
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Collection of 139 original photographs of stations on the NBR system taken in LNER days
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BR/GNS/15/7-26
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Great North of Scotland staff registers
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1870-1935
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BR/GNS/15/1-6
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Registers of 'offences' committed by staff in the Great North of Scotland Railway Company
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BR/GNS/4/44
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Photographs of houses for Great North of Scotland Railway employees at Inverurie Works
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BR/GSW/15/1-15
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Glasgow and South Western staff registers
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1900-1920
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BR/GSW/4/77-88
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Glasgow and South Western posters and photographs relating to its famous hotel and golf courses at Turnberry
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Labour relations in the Scottish railway industry are recorded in minutes and report from 1875 to 1963 (NRS reference BR/LAS(S)/1-246).
