Includes:

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Act 1907;

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and other Companies’ proposals at Winteringham (1907);

correspondence regarding the petition against the Bill; from Gerald Fitz Gibbon (10/1906) seeking interviews and memoirs of meetings at Goole; between Barraclough and R. Borough Hopkins detailing rumours and answering questions about the land bought by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co. in Winteringham; detailing proposed witnesses, in particular a witness re crossing of the River Trent; letter from Mr Wightman to Mr Bartholomew detailing the proposed bridge over the River Trent and the use of charts; correspondence detailing the withdrawal of the Bill;

Newspaper cuttings - notices of application to parliament, Yorkshire Post (11/1906); Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway New Scheme, Yorkshire Post (11/1906);

further information as to the ‘bore’ on the Trent and dangers from the proposed railway bridge;

telegraph stating privately that the Trent crossing is to be dropped.