Offer for sale of surplus railway rolling stock by Manager - Nigerian Railways
Scope & Content:
Offer of surplus wagon stock from the Bauchi Light Railway, Nigeria - not required by the Sierra Leone Railway. Includes blueprint general arrangement drawings of the various wagons.
Four large undated photographs of the railway, showing a train on a bridge (Moa River Bridge), replacing sleepers, Garret locomotive no. 57 and a viaduct under construction. Provenance unknown - possibly passed to the National Archives following the closure of the railway.
Archival material and ephemera from Sierra Leone Railways
Scope & Content:
The material at the Sierra Leone National Railway Museum is small in quantity, but significant in that it is the only paper material surviving that was created by the railway itself. The material is mainly low-level administrative formwork - request slips for supplies for maintaining locomotive...