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By Daisy Goddard | July 9, 2026
We've added railway records from across England this week.
We've added two collections of railway records this week, comprising 94,601 records from the Chatham and Dover Railway Company and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company.
We've also bolstered our newspaper archive with new Irish pages.
London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company
This brand new collection consists of 13,788 railway records, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries.
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company
This week's second new set of railway records is from the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company. Covering 1818 to 1931, there are 80,813 records to discover.
New pages from Billericay to Barrow
100,308 new pages joined our archive this week. We've added five new titles to our collection, and updated 29 existing publications.
New titles:
- Barking Gazette and South Essex Mercury, 1909-1910
- Devonport Independent, 1864-1865, 1889, 1891
- Irish Presbyterian, 1853-1858
- Lichfield Mercury, Tamworth, Burton and Walsall Gazette, 1830-1833
- Sunderland Herald, 1859, 1861, 1873, 1897
Updated titles:
- Barrow Times, 1874-1875, 1878-1879
- Billericay Gazette, 2000
- Bootle Times, 2005
- Bury Times, 1879
- Crewe Chronicle, 2001
- Dublin Mercantile Advertiser, 1847-1849
- Eastern Daily Press, 1877
- Eastwood & Kimberley Advertiser, 1983-2004
- Edinburgh Evening News, 1958
- Ellesmere Port Pioneer, 2000-2001
- Glasgow Evening Times, 1881, 1888
- Glasgow Weekly Mail, 1885, 1887
- Hampshire Advertiser, 1860, 1908-1913
- Harrogate Herald, 1859, 1874, 1952
- Herapath’s Railway Journal, 1836
- Hertford Mercury and Reformer, 2002
- Hertfordshire Express, 1914, 1950
- Hexham Courant, 1912
- Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser, 1877
- London and China Telegraph, 1900
- Paisley Daily Express, 1950
- Rothesay Chronicle, 1903, 1910, 1912
- Salford Weekly News, 1876, 1879, 1881, 1889
- Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 1750, 1753-1755, 1761
- Teignmouth Post and Gazette, 1916-1919
- Widnes Weekly News and District Reporter, 2002
- Willesden Chronicle, 1919
- Worcestershire Chronicle, 1910
- Wrexham Guardian and Denbighshire and Flintshire Advertiser, 1889, 1911
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