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British Empire & Commonwealth Museum
Cornwall Record Office
Hulton Archive
National Railway Museum
National Monuments Record Centre
Newton Abbot Library
Public Records Office
Science Museum Library
http://www.britishpathe.com/

Access to Archives
http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/

The Design Museum
http://www.designmuseum.org/

Institution of Civil Engineers
http://www.ice.org.uk/know/library/index.asp

The British Library
http://www.bl.uk/

English Heritage – National Monuments Record
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/nmr/

English Heritage- Images of England
http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/

Saltash Museum & Study Centre
http://www.saltash.gov.uk/Heritage/Museum.htm
http://www.westcountrylinks.co.uk/saltash_heritage.htm

Saltash Library

Francis Frith

STEAM Railway Museum
http://www.steam-museum.org.uk/

Plymouth Museum?

Plymouth Library?

Devon Records Office
http://www.devon.gov.uk/dro/
http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/nazi.html

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/star/archives.htm

Network Rail
Regional Records Manager Ian Nulty in Swindon
Internal number: 07 75842.

http://www.saltash.gov.uk/

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

Great Western Study Group

Great Western Society

Broad Gauge Society

Great Western Railway Journal
Model Railway Journal
British Railway Illustrated
The Railway Magazine
RAIL
Connecting (Internal Network Rail Great Western Region Publication)
Track Record (Internal Network Rail Publication)