Doncaster Locomotive Works

Including:

Employees: Locomotive Department 1897-1966;

Employees: Carriage and Wagon Department 1908-1935

Locomotive Department: Accidents 1927-1928

Machinery 1895-1944

Piece Work Prices 1925, 1948-1967

Finance 1940

Premises: Plans 1860s-1959

The Doncaster Locomotive Works (locally known as 'the Plant') were established in Doncaster by the Great Northern Railway in 1853, when its repair shops were moved to the town from Boston, Lincolnshire. The location appears to have been chosen by Edmund Denison M P (later Beckett), the chairman of the company, on account of his own residence in the town. A history of the work can be found in Philip S Bagwell, Doncaster Town of Train Makers 1853-1990 (Doncaster, 1991).

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The records catalogued here were rescued from the works premises after rejection for permanent preservation by the National Railway Museum, York

Doncaster Archives holds a copy of the catalogue of the Doncaster Locomotive Works preserved at the National Railway Museum.

Other records held by Doncaster Archives relating to the works can be found at AB/CLERK/3/587 (contribution books for Queen Victoria's Jubilee, which are in effect a register of employees at the work in March 1887) and DZ/DAY (items relating to the hundredth anniversary of the works in 1953).