A book catalogue and a magazine catalogue are available as Microsoft® Excel spreadsheets or Adobe® Acrobat® files, both formats are searchable. The files may be downloaded from the links below.
A large quantity of magazines (mostly professionally bound) are available in the Archive and Library. These include The Railway Magazine, The Railway Gazette, and many Heritage Railway and Railway Society Magazines. We also have magazines from “The Big Four” and professional bodies.
There is a collection of foreign language magazines. Those available at Leatherhead are listed in the Magazine Catalogue
The Library collections are extensive and it is not possible to produce full printed catalogues at an economic price.
An explanation of the book numbering system that we use is available HERE.
Two compete sets of each year from Issue 1 of (When it was called “The Railway News”) to the current issue are held in the Archive. One set is for reference only, the second set is available for loan.
Many bound volumes and single copies of RO issues for many years are available for sale from the Archive and Library, please enquire if you wish to purchase specific issues.
All indices to the Railway Observer have been scanned and are available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. The file is, however, too large to e-mail (87MB). If members require individual years, they can be extracted from the file and sent by e-mail. For this service, a donation to the Society would be appreciated.
Paper copies of the indices are bound in the relevant volume of the Railway Observer. There are also three separate volumes just containing the indices from 1928 – 2005.
