File contains a notebook entitled Cobourg, Northumberland and Pacific Railway Reference Book with manuscript entries completed by the Registrar, Hastings County 29 March 1898 concerning railroad allowances in Rawdon Township at 10 December 1894.

File contains a typescript letter from Sir William Cornelius Van Horne to J.E. Walmsley, Belleville, 28 November 1891 rejecting an offer to establish a branch of the CPR in Belleville.

File contains a typescript letter from W.N. Ponton to L.J. Sergeant, General Manager, Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, Montreal regarding a proposed deputation of the Hastings County Council and the Board of Trade to the G.T.R. in Montreal pressing the need for a dining room at the Belleville terminus.

File contains a newspaper article from the Monetary Times and Trade Review, 18 May 1883 concerning the financing of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

File contains printed bills of lading and receipts for commodities transported on the Grand Trunk Railway line, 1859, 1880, 1890 and 1893.

File contains a photocopied newspaper notice of a shareholders meeting of the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company, 1 October 1878. Also present is manuscript letter from [G. Sergeant] General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada 29 April 1891 to W.N. Ponton rejecting the extension of a double track at Belleville.

File contains several printed, completed waybills for various goods in transit on the Grand Trunk Railway, 1877. Also includes an unsigned typescript letter of application for railroad employment 29 May 1900.

File contains photocopied and newspaper timetables displaying departure and arrival times of Grand Trunk Railway trains in Belleville on the main Montreal-Toronto line, 1860, 1876 and 1905.

File contains a manuscript petition by the rate payers of the Township of Asphodel, Northumberland County, ca. 1859 to urge the Grand Trunk Railway to complete the proposed Grand Junction Railway line in Hastings County.

File contains a printed Grand Trunk Railway System safety pledge, a printed Grand Trunk order for track repairs, and a printed complimentary calendar for October 1881, issued by the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway.

File contains four manuscript resolutions of the Municipal Council of the County of Hastings, 1871 concerning investment in the Grand Junction Railway by the County for a proposed railroad.

File contains a manuscript resolution of the Council of the County of Hastings, 28 January 1862 resolving that no further aid should be given by the Government of Canada to the Grand Trunk Railway. Also contains a manuscript petition of the Corporation of the County of Hastings following upon the above resolution. Also present is a manuscript letter of 30 October 1861 from John MacKelcan, Hamilton, to the Warden of Hastings County requesting a meeting of municipalities concerning municipal indebtedness relating to railway construction in Canada West, and a letter of response from the Warden, County of Hastings, 4 November 1861, declining the invitation as Hastings County was not in a position of indebtedness due to railway financing.

File contains a typescript letter from Jeanne Cross, Art Editor, Fredrick Muller [Publishers] Ltd., London, England, 24 June 1968 to the Belleville Historical Museum requesting prints of plans created by Thomas Brassey, Civil Engineer, for a proposed railway in Hastings County ca. 1859.

File contains a manuscript letter from R.L. Innes, Surveyor, dated 29 June 1859 to George Benjamin, Warden, County of Hastings concerning the progress of a survey for the proposed route of the Belleville and Marmora Railway.

File contains several signed printed petitions to the Warden and Council of the County of Hastings concerning the selection of a route for a railway following the Moira River Valley and passing through or near the Village of Madoc, to Marmora. Includes manuscript resolutions and motions of the Council of the County of Hastings concerning matters relating to the proposed railway route. Also present are three manuscript memorials of the County of Hastings to Sir Edmund Walker Head, Governor General of Canada concerning the need for a railroad to exploit fully the mineral resources in Hastings County.

File contains: map of Grand Junction Railway 1878 Wharf and Dock District Belleville; original letter dated 22 October 1887 to Mr. Singleton from the Grand Trunk Railway, Resident Engineers Office, contracting for supply of wood.

File contains two time tables for Grand Trunk Railway - Central Ontario, date unknown.

File contains an original letter dated 1871 on Grand Junction Railway letterhead, two original account collection notices from the 1870's from the Grand Junction Railway, Solicitor's office; one newspaper article dated 29-September-1969 from the Intelligencer titled "Belleville Early Train Centre".

File contains a map of railways of Central Ontario 1847-1889