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  • Title
    Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick
  • Reference
    RAST
  • Production date
    18-09-1829 - 19-08-1833
  • Creator
    • Rastrick, John UrpethBiography
  • Scope and Content
    Manuscript notebook belonging to J. U. Rastrick used to record details of the Rainhill locomotive trials, 1829, Rastrick being a judge at the trials. The notebook includes sketches of locomotives that were part of the trail, including the winner, Stephenson’s Rocket. It notes dimensions and weights and observations and timings from the runs themselves. First pages are not dated, these include a print of a coat of arms, with inscription 'RASTRICK', a note of work done in North Wales, near Chester, measurements and notes and a sketch of a 'Horse Machine' in pencil and drawings and notes of Liverpool dock walls in ink. First dated entry is from Bolton Railway on 18 September 1829. The notebook also includes printed notices and newspaper clips of the locomotive trial, notes of other work projects and experiments, such as St Helens Railway in August 1833. In the end pages are also costings for Engineers Dinner held in 1829.
  • Extent
    1 volume
  • Physical description
    Good condition
  • Language
    English
  • Archival history
    The notebook was purchased from a larger collection of unknown items presented to auction by Mrs Dendy Marshall, wife of railway historian Chapham Frederick Dendy Marshall (1873-1945). Purchased from Sotheby’s Auctioneers by a private donor to mark the 25 year anniversary of the Newcomen Society (1945). The Notebook was then donated to the Science Museum, London. It was transferred to the National Railway Museum circa 2004.
  • Level of description
    TOP
  • Repository name
    National Railway Museum, York
  • Associated people and organisations
    • Stephenson, RobertBiography
    • Stephenson, GeorgeBiography
    • Wood, NicholasBiography
    • Hackworth, TimothyBiography
    • Dixon, JohnBiography
  • Subject
  • Conditions governing access
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  • Conditions governing Reproduction
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