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  • Length of iron  broad gauge railway track © NMAG

    Brunel Broad Gauge Bridge Rail

    The railway came to Northamptonshire in the mid-1800s with the Broad Gauge track of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway and a station at Aynho.

    Victorian 1840s Modern

  • Ceramic dray horse trough © Photo by J. Demet

    Dray Horse Trough - Railway Stables, Rushden

    This ceramic dray horse trough is the only surviving relic of the railway dray horse stables in Rushden.

    1893 to 1950 Modern

  • Leather hobnailed  workman's or drayman's boots © NMAG

    Drayman's Boots

    Hardwearing boots worn by the "kings of the road", labourers transporting goods by horse-drawn wagon for the railway companies between the wars.

    1915-52 Modern

  • Engine shed northampton © Univesrity of Northampton

    The Engine Shed - University of Northampton

    The Engine Shed is a Grade II listed former railway building which was restored for the building of the new Univesrity of Northampton campus at Waterside, Northampton.

    1870 Modern