A J Chisholm collection

Photographs, a collection of 57 silver gelatin glass negatives 4 1\4 x 3 1/4 ins, featuring locomotives of the railways of Britain, c1900 to 1910, includes North Eastern Railway, Great Eastern Railway, London & North Western Railway, Midland Railway, Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, Cambrian Railways, Great Central Railway, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, Great Western Railway, London & South Western Railway, South South Eastern & Chatham Railway, Photographer A J Chisholm.

Alexander John Chisholm, who was born in 1876, photographed railway scenes in and around London, in Yorkshire, Scotland, the West Country and the Midlands. This collection comprises 4¼ x 3¼ ins glass plate negatives, mainly static views of locomotives and trains of various pre-grouping companies. Typical photographs show engines of the NER at Scarborough, the LNWR at Willesden and Camden, the GWR at Weymouth - including a boat train - the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway at Bath and the Cambrian Railway at Barmouth. Chisholm also captured Midland Railway locomotives at Nottingham, the Isle of Wight Railway, some Great Central stock at Neasden, the LBSCR at London Bridge and the South Eastern & Chatham Railway at Hastings. In his later years Alexander Chisholm lived at Worthing and became involved with the newly established Bluebell Railway, contributing items to its magazine until his death in 1966. The remainder of Chisholm's negatives are in the R K Blencowe collection.