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The David Davies Railway Collection encompasses all facets of railway history specifically in the province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory. The collection consists of research material accumulated over the course of more than fifty years, and includes monographs, periodicals, articles, clippings, railway timetables, photographs, maps and plans, and excerpts. Material covers public, tourist, and private (industrial) railways, including: CPR, KVR, E&N; CNR, CNoR, GTPR; and PGER, BCR. The collection excludes material regarding streetcar systems and rapid transit, but includes long distance electric interurbans.

Photograph depicts a float plane landing at Gold River on west Vancouver Island.

Photograph depicts telephone fittings on Vancouver Island.

Photograph depicts a 1953 Vauxhall Velox parked at 925 Cadero St. in Vancouver, B.C. It is a blue, 6 cylinder, and has had three owners to date.

Photograph depicts a view of the Fraser River from the Albion Ferry from Haney to Fort Langley. The ferry is approaching the south bank of Fort Langley. Gulls sat on logs floating downstream; too heavy to rise after eating candlefish.

Photograph depicts a tractor owned by G. Wellburn at the Duncan Forest Museum.

Photograph depicts an old hotel sightseeing bus built prior to 1923. It is located at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum.

Photograph depicts former tram tracks down east Georgia St. in east Vancouver, BC

Photograph depicts former tram tracks at the north end of Fu St. on the south side of False Creek in Vancouver, BC

Photograph depicts former tram tracks still intact at east Georgia St. and Campbell Ave. in the east end of Vancouver, BCThe tracks continued forward and crossed the low ground on a trestle.

Photograph depicts a wooden pipeline carrying irrigation water, about to be carried across the Similkameen River by being slung underneath a truss bridge. The pipeline is near Ashnola, west of Keremeos.

Photograph depicts C.P.R. trackage at Naramata, B.C. on the east side of Okanagan Lake and 11 miles north of Penticton. This is an isolated piece of trackage about 250 yards in length, served by scows, with a quite involved layout. The refrigerated box car was built in 1950.

Photograph depicts a C.P.R. three locomotive unit approaching the south end of the yard at North Bend in the Fraser Canyon. The view is looking south.

Photograph depicts rail cars in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts a West Coast Railway Association 2-8-2 tank locomotive and tender at a C.N. station in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts a C.P.R. train switching at Osoyoos, B.C.

Photograph depicts Craigellachie station, a famous spot on the C.P.R. line. The trans-continental line was joined here on November 7, 1885, about 250 yards down the track just beyond the right hand colour aspect signal. The depot house is not manned, used by the line side crews to store equipment. In former days it was a passing point, but there are very few houses in the area now.

Photograph depicts a Sperry Rail service car #136 at the Penticton C.P.R. depot. Note the larger bogie on the right hand bogie which accommodates detection gear. It is being serviced before moving to an area west of Penticton.

Photograph depicts the Sperry Rail service car at the C.P.R. Penticton depot, just moving off to the west.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at Princeton, looking east.

Photograph depicts the Bowser water tower on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, 25 miles south of Courtenay. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station in Abbotsford, looking south.

Photograph depicts loading coal at Buckley Bay. Coal is from Tsable Mine belonging to the Comox Colliery Co. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts a C.P.R. eastbound freight train at passing loop at Illecillewaet, between Rogers Pass and Revelstoke. The April 25, 1965 CPR Employee timetable lists the mileage at Illecillewaet as 98.2 with a siding capacity of 85 cars. The view in this photograph is taken from a string of work cars on the siding.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. freight depot at Spences Bridge. It also shows caboose #436581, built in 1913. The view is facing east towards Merritt.

Photograph depicts a disused coaling stage beside the track that leads to Merritt at Spences Bridge. Coal cars were unloaded by hand or bottom emptied, in covered bay on the left, into metal grating below the track. Coal was then taken by continuous chain hoppers (1 C. powered) to overhead coal bunkers.

Photograph depicts the end of the C.P.R. transcontinental main line at Cadero St. by the Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts a view looking east from the end of the C.P.R. track at Coal Harbour in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts a private car owned by the Interior Contracting Co. Ltd. of Penticton, at the C.P.R. Penticton depot. No building date is shown on the car.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway on the south outskirts of Nanaimo by the former Chinatown. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. Coquitlam yards.

Photograph depicts a general view of the C.P.R. yards at False Creek in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts the business car "Van Horne" at the C.P.R. False Creek yard in Vancouver, B.C. It is not numbered.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at Kaslo on Kootenay Lake and the beginning of the steep grade of the former Kaslo-New Denver Railway. The line on the left leads to the Kaslo depot and ferry slip, and that on the right goes another 200 yards to an oil depot. All trains did and do a reverse at the foot of grade at the left behind the photo.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. line at New Denver. Formerly there was a railroad between Kaslo and Nakusp, via New Denver. The section between 1 mile out of Kaslo and 1 mile east of New Denver was lifted in the 1950s. This is the most easterly section of track at New Denver and oil trains back up to it to get into an oil depot and a run-around loop. This section was the start of a stiff grade into the mountains.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. Cowichan depot on Vancouver Island. The view is looking south.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at Slocan City. At the left beyond the photo is the ferry slip on Slocan Lake.

Photograph depicts the B.C. Electric Railway workshops at the south end of the Burrard bridge in Vancouver. The view is looking west and depicts caboose A10 in the background.

Photograph depicts B.C. Electric Railway trackage being removed to approaches of locomotive house in New Westminster. The view is looking northeast, probably up 14th St.

Photograph depicts the B.C. Electric Railway, looking east from the depot at Cloverdale.

Photograph depicts a loading spur on the B.C. Electric Railway at Jackman St. (or nearby), 10 miles east of Langley. The view is looking east.