Photographs, a collection of approximately 5,680 film negatives, 35mm to 4¼ x 2¾ ins, on cellulose nitrate and safety stock, 2,925 colour 35 mm transparencies, and approximately 340 prints. Featuring locomotives and trains of the London Midland & Scottish Railway, London & North Eastern Railway, Great Western Railway and Southern Railway, British Railways, industrial railways, a small number of pre-grouping railways such as the London Brighton & South Coast Railway, Irish railways and overseas railways especially those of Spain and Scandinavia, c 1920-1964. Photographer M D England.

Derrick England, who was born in 1908, was trained at the London Foot Hospital and took up a career as a chiropodist in Surrey. He was a Senior Lecturer at the Hospital, and an active member of the Society of Chiropodists, becoming an honorary vice president in 1970.

An enthusiast whose interests spanned many subjects, he was held in high esteem by aviculturalists, ornithologists and photographers. Not only was he an avid railway photographer, but he also led expeditions to find rare species of birds, and his definitive photographs appeared in such reference works as The Dictionary Of Birds. He was also the photographic editor of British Birds magazine from 1976 until ill-health forced him to retire. Like many of the photographers whose work is represented in the NRM collections he demanded high technical standards of himself and others. On his death in 1980 he was described in his obituary as a man who was "modest and almost self-effacing, he stayed determinedly independent ... though often critical of needless bureaucracy and inefficiency, he remained always polite and good humoured".

England's photographs cover the Big Four, British Railways, industrial railways, a small number of pre-grouping railways, such as the LBSC, Irish and overseas railways, particularly Spain and Scandinavia. Preserved railways are also featured. England also acquired the work of his friend, F C Steward (qv).