NOTES AND REFERENCES
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- D/Lo/D871, DCRO
- D/Lo/D872, DCRO
- D/Lo/D 132–155, DCRO: Robert Surtees, History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, Vol 2 (London 1820) p.49
- Gibson, John, Plan of the Collieries on the Rivers Tyne and Wearetc., 1788
- Greenwood, Map of County Durham, 1819: D/L0/13309(8), Eye Plan .... showing Nesham's Railway toSunderland, 11th February 1820, DCRO.
- E. Mackenzie, & M. Ross, View of the County Palatine of Durham, (Newcastle 1834), p.357
- J.T.W. Bell, Map of the Great Northern Coalfield 1843
- D/Lo/C142, 22nd Jan 1820, DCRO
- John Sykes, Local Records, (Newcastle 1866), Vol. 2 pp.154–5
- D/Lo/E610, DCRO
- D/Lo/E575, DCRO: Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, Frances Anne; the Life and Times of Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry, and her husband Charles the Third Marquess of Londonderry, (1958), p.69
- D/Lo/E610, DCRO
- D/Lo/E610, DCRO
- D/L0/E601(3) and (5), DCRO
- D/Lo/E594(2), DCRO
- D/Lo/B365 (1b) 24 September 1822: (la) 8 October 1822; D/Lo/B365(2) 'The Proposition of 'AB' to the Marquis of Londonderry, September 1822', DCRO
- D/Lo/B365(1b) 24 September 1822, Browne to Londonderry: D/Lo/B365(3) 25 November 1822, Thompson to Buddle: D/Lo/B365(4) Buddle to Thompson, DCRO
- Welford, R, Men of Mark Twixt Tyne and 7iveed, (London 1895), Vol. 3 pp.502–5: The author's privateresearches into the life of Benjamin Thompson.
- D/Lo/E594 (4) Thompson 1 Feb 1823, DCRO
- D/Lo/E594(3) Length of Dalden Waggonway 21 May 1823, DCRO
- Johnson Collection, Vol. 9, p.130, NCRO
- D/Lo/E594(3) & (6), DCRO
- D/Lo/E594 (5) Estimate of the Expense of the Intended Railway from Rainton Bridge to Dalden, 5 June 1823, DCRO
- Sykes, op.cit., pp.154–5
- D/L0/E594 (6) 6 June 1823, DCRO
- Sykes, op.cit., pp.231–4
- D/L0/C270 (46) 14 October 1828 Buddle to Harrison: (45) 16 October 1828 Harrison to Buddle, DCRO
- T. E. Forster Collection, Vol. 8 p36: Bell Collection, Vol. 19, p.523, Newspaper cutting 27 July 1811, NCRO
- Accession No. 475, Tyne and Wear Archives
- W.W. Tomlinson, The North Eastern Railway, its Rise & Development, (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1914); 3rd ed. ( Newton Abbot, 1987), pp.212–4
- Tomlinson, ibid., p227
- D/Lo/E596 (1); D/Lo/B366(1): D/Lo/C270(28), DCRO
- D/Lo/E594(2), DCRO
- D/Lo/B367, DCRO: Johnson Collection, Vol. 9, p.114, NCRO
- D/Lo/C270 (50), Reed to Londonderry, 5 December 1828, DCRO
- D/Lo/C270(51), Harrison to Buddle 6 December 1828, DCRO
- D/Lo/C270(31) & (41), 10 & 16 December 1828, DCRO
- D/Lo/C270(28), DCRO
- Johnson Collection, Vol. 9 p.126, NCRO: D/Lo/C142 12 July 1829, DCRO
- D/Lo/P202, 'A section of the intended railway from Rainton Bridge to Seaham Har.' c1828-30, DCRO
- Johnson, op.cit., pp.120–3
- Sykes, op.cit., p.305
- Johnson, op.cit., p.119, NCRO
- Johnson, Ibid., pp.115–6
- Johnson, Ibid., p.120, 127, 133, NCRO: D/Lo/13368(1), DCRO
- Johnson, Ibid., p.120
- Johnson, Ibid., pp.124–6
- Johnson, Ibid., pp.134–153
- Johnson, Ibid., p.131
- Johnson, Ibid., pp.148–153: D/Lo/13368 & D/Lo/E103: D/L/C151(132) McDonnell to Londonderry 18 January 1841, DCRO