Engineering drawings for orders recorded in Order Book No 21, numbers 6286-6427

Irish railway, opened in 1877. The railway was taken over by the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway in July 1889.

Irish railway company formed in 1876 by the merger of the Irish North Western Railway (INW), Northern Railway of Ireland, and Ulster Railway. In 1958, under the Great Northern Railway Act, which became operative on 1st October 1958, the Great Northern Railway rail and road services within Eire were amalgamated with Coras Iompair Eireann.

In 1883 the Victorian Railways Commissioners Act, 47 Vic., No.767, brought the staff of the Department of Railways, founded in 1856, under the jurisdiction of the Railway Commissioners, which became known as Victorian Railways. This act gave Victorian Railways the authority to construct, manage and maintain the railways of the state.

In 1889 Newport replaced Williamstown as the location of the Victorian Railways workshop, and being the largest in Australia. The Victorian Railways Head Office was located in Spencer Street from 1893, and housed the branch’s design and administrative functions. In 1919, the electrification of the Melbourne suburban system commenced and was completed in 1930. In 1922 the Border Railway Act extended some of Victorian Railways lines into New South Wales. In 1961 a standard gauge line connecting to the New South Wales system was constructed to allow travel between Melbourne and Sydney for the first time.

In 1973 the Railways Amendment Act passed the management to a Victorian Railways Board from the Victorian Railways Commissioners. In 1974 Victorian Railways became VicRail.

Steam powered tramway covering areas to the north and east of Manchester, which opened in 1883. The line never reached Manchester, as the permission to cross the existing horse tramways could not be obtained. Following completion in 1884, for a time the company operated the largest steam tramway in the world at 33.25 miles. The company went bankrupt in c1887.

Iron and steel manufacturers and colliery proprietors, based in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. The ironworks was established in 1759. The company became part of British steel in 1967.

Tramways company registered in 1878.

South Australian Railways (SAR) was the statutory corporation through which the Government of South Australia built and operated railways in South Australia from 1854.
In March 1978, the non-urban railways were incorporated into Australian National, and the Adelaide urban lines were transferred to the State Transport Authority.

Dutch East Indies railway company founded in 1881

Formed as the Hoylake Railway Company in c1863. It became the Hoylake and Birkenhead Tramway Company in 1870, and then the Hoylake & Birkenhead Rail and Tramway Company in 1872.

In 1881, the company became the Seacombe, Hoylake and Deeside Railway, following rail extentions. It was purchased by the Wirral Railway Company Ltd in 1884, although continued to operate as a separate company until being fully absorbed in 1891.

The Hull Barnsley & West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Company (H&BR) was promoted by interests in Hull seeking to break the monopoly held by the NER and Hull Dock Company, which was holding back the development of the port of Hull, and to encourage the export of coal through Hull from the rapidly expanding South Yorkshire coalfield. The H&BR was authorised in 1880 and opened in 1885 at the same time as the Alexandra Dock.

The H&BR ran from Alexandra Dock in Hull to Cudworth, outside Barnsley. In Hull the route from Alexandra Dock was built at a high level to avoid the many road crossings that would otherwise have been needed. It had two branches: to Wath on Dearne and to Denaby. It connected with other railways serving the coalfield including the GCR, the L&YR and MR. Its passenger terminus was at Cannon Street in Hull and its head office was in Charlotte Street, a short distance away. It had works at Springfield, Hull although it did not build its own locomotives. Its main traffic was coal.

After initial fierce price competition with the NER and the Hull Dock Company, which led to the H&BR going into receivership for a short period, the H&BR and the NER worked closely together. In 1914 they opened the jointly owned King George V Dock.

The Hull Barnsley & West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Company changed its name to the Hull & Barnsley Railway in 1905.

Welsh Railway company formed in 1882. The 29 mile line running from the Rhondda Valley to Swansea fully opened in 1895. The Great Western Railway were given powers to run the company's system in 1906, and the line became a part of the GWR in 1923.

The Transandine Railway was first projected in 1854, but construction work did not begin until 1887, with the first section opening between Mendoza and Uspallata on 22 February 1891. The entire line was first opened to traffic in 1910, the company having been taken over by the British-owned Argentine Transandine Railway Company.

The Transandine completed a 1,408 km (875 mi) rail link between the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires and the Chilean port of Valparaiso, and provided the first rail route linking the southern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

The railway has been out of service since 1984.

The Central Argentine Railway Company Ltd. (CAR) was established in 1863 by William Wheelwright. In 1862, Wheelwright obtained a concession with Thomas Brassey and George Wythes, from the Argentine government to construct a railway line from Rosario to Cordoba, originally granted to Jose Buschenthal (1802 -1870) in 1854. It was a British-owned, broad gauge (5’ 6”) company serving the Buenos Aires, Sante Fe, Tucuman, Santiago del Estero and Cordoba provinces of Argentina. By 1910, the company was considered one of the ‘Big Four’ British-owned, broad gauge railway companies in Argentina, alongside Pacific and Western, Buenos Aires and Great Southern.

The Rosario –Cordoba line was the main broad gauge line constructed by Central Argentine Railways, extending from the eastern seaport of Rosario to Cordoba, started in 1863 and inaugurated on May 17th 1870. In 1870, President Sarmiento arranged a £6 million loan for Central Argentine Railway to extend this line north from Cordoba to Tucuman. In the Buenos Aires province there were three main suburban lines of Tigre West, Tigre East and Villa Ballester. The Retiro – Tigre West service was the first line in South America to be electrified on December 1st 1916, the units being supplied by British Thomson- Houston Company Ltd. The Tigre East and Villa Ballester lines were electrified in 1924, and 221 units were supplied by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company Ltd. The Central Argentine Railway operated the fastest train in South America, known as the “Rapido”, running between Buenos Aires and Rosario from 1910.

Central Argentine Railways transported timber from the north including goods such as railway sleepers and fence posts, and sugar from Tucuman. The company was a major grain carrier, transporting maize, wheat and linseed amongst others. CAR was the first to adopt gas lighting in trains, to provide sleeping cars and luxurious dining and restaurant cars, and to use block and pneumatic signalling. The main stations are Retiro, the Buenos Aires terminus, opened in August 1915; Cordoba opened in 1919; Campana opened in 1925. The company continued to function until 1948, when President Juan Peron nationalised the Argentine Railway, creating six state owned railway networks and Central Argentine Railways was incorporated into the Ferrocarril Mitre network.

The New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) were operated by the New South Wales Government from 1855 who administered all the railway lines in the New South Wales area from headquarters in Sydney. The lines ranged from Brisbane (Queensland) and Broken Hill (South Australian Frontier) to Albury (Victorian Frontier). Between 1855 and 1932 the operation of NSWGR changed many times, altering between a Chief Commissioner with sole authority and groups of commissioners who shared responsibility. After the 1932 amendment of the Railways Act by the Transport (Division of Factions) Act, NSWGR was replaced by the Department of Railways New South Wales.

Railway company authorized on 23 June 1864. The company merged with the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester & Midland Junction; and the Evesham, Redditch & Stratford-upon-Avon Railways to form the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway (SMJR) on 1 August 1908.

Railway company incorporated in 1873. The Swindon to Marlborough line was opened in 1881, the Grafton to Andover line in 1882, and the entire line in 1883. The railway became part of the Midland and South Western Junction Railway (M&SWJR) in 1884