A collection of annotated Acts of Parliament relating to the following railway projects - from the River Tees at Stockton to Witton Park Colliery, and several branches therefrom, 1821; to enable the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company to vary and alter the Line, 1823, to authorize the Company of Proprietors of the Stockton and Darlington Railway to relinquish one of their Branch Railways and make another, 1824; to enable the Company to make a branch to Linthorpe, 1828; a railway from the River Tees to Heighington, 1828; to enable the Clarence Railway Company to vary and alter the Line, 1829; to amend and extend the powers of the Clarence Railway Acts, 1832; to enable the Clarence Railway Company to make Branch Railways, 1833; to extend the Clarence Railway, 1833; a declaration of the motives of the promoters of the Clarence Railway Company, 1836; plans of the Stockton and Darlington, the Clarence and the proposed Durham South West Junction Railways, and of the Coal District in the county of Durham; with press cuttings and notes on Roman antiquities mainly in Caernarvonshire.

Copies of engineers' reports, valuations, and accounts, 1856-1893, mainly by Samuel Dobson, Pontypridd, Thomas Evans and William Thomas, Aberdâr, and Morgan W. Davies, Swansea, relating to Clydach Vale, Dan-y-deri, Dinas, Foxhole, and Pwllmawr collieries, Glamorganshire, the Murton colliery, co. Durham, the Monkstone manganese mines, Devonshire, and the Aspeich copper mines, southern France. A printed prospectus, 1889, of shares in Richard Evans & Co. Ltd, Haydock Collieries, near St Helens, is pasted inside the back cover.