Branksome railway station original engineering drawings
Dear Network Rail Limited,
I am making a request for the set of engineering drawings that were produced with the construction of the London & South Western Railway's station at Branksome, near Bournemouth in the mid to late 1800s. This was rebuilt some time in the 1970s or 80s including a complete rebuild of the station house. As such the modern structure is not the same as was standing in the time period that I am interested in.
I am looking for in particular:
The street elevation station house,
The footbridge,
The platform elevation buildings and canopies.
Yours faithfully,
J. A. Dove
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Reference number: FOI2022/00545
Dear J. A. Dove
Information request
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To confirm, I have taken your request to be the following:
'I am making a request for the set of engineering drawings that were produced with the construction of the London & South Western Railway's station at Branksome, near Bournemouth in the mid to late 1800s. This was rebuilt some time in the 1970s or 80s including a complete rebuild of the station house. As such the modern structure is not the same as was standing in the time period that I am interested in.
I am looking for in particular:
The street elevation station house,
The footbridge,
The platform elevation buildings and canopies.'
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Isabella Battaglia | Information Officer
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Reference number: FOI2022/00545
Dear J. A. Dove,
Please find attached our response to your recent information request. Please find the information within this One Drive folder as it is too large to attach to this email: https://networkrail-my.sharepoint.com/:f...
If you have issues with access, please do let me know.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.
Warm Regards,
Isabella Battaglia | Information Officer
Freedom of Information | Legal & Corporate Services
Network Rail | 1st Floor | Willen Building | The Quadrant: MK Elder Gate | Milton Keynes | MK9 1EN
Email: [Network Rail request email]
Web: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/foi/
Dear Isabella Battaglia,
I am having difficulties accessing the OneDrive file as I do not appear to have access. I might need a Network Rail email address which I of course would not have. Is there some other way this information can be provided to me?
Thank you very much for finding the information I required though, the Network Rail FOI team has been very very helpful. Apologies for not replying to the response swiftly because I did not catch the email letting me know!
Yours sincerely,
J. A. Dove
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Afternoon J. A. Dove,
Thank you for getting in touch. I am sorry to hear that you have access issues and are not able to view the information. You do not need to have a Network Rail email address to access the One Drive folder - you can give any email address, including those from 'What Do They Know', access to a folder and they should be able to open them. Though sometimes we do have issues like this where it doesn't work annoyingly!
Conveniently, the drawings are accessible via our Virtual Searchroom which you are able to access online. Our Archives team told me that they were only available online for a short period of time (30 days) which is why I preferred to download and send them across to you so you could have a permanent copy. I have just checked and the drawings are still available online, please follow the link to take you to the right page:
https://history.networkrail.co.uk/uncate...
From there, you will be able to download them on your personal computer and have a permanent copy before they expire on our virtual search room.
I hope this helps! Please let me know if there are any more issues, and I can look at getting the drawing to you another way. And no problem at all, I enjoyed processing this request - the drawings in my opinion are beautiful!
Warm regards
Bella
Isabella Battaglia | Information Officer
Freedom of Information | Legal & Corporate Services
Network Rail | 1st Floor | Willen Building | The Quadrant: MK Elder Gate | Milton Keynes | MK9 1EN
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