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Ransome-Wallis collection

1922-1983

Great Eastern Railway Stratford Collection

1890-1952

Arthur Trevena collection of photographs

1858-1947

box collection of photographs

1907-1953

Dukinfield collection of photographs

1910-1955

J.F. Bruton collection

1930-1939

J G Click Photographs

1929-1984

Sherwood collection of photographs

1930-1960

Leech/Laundy collection of photographs

1909-1934

box collection of photographs

1930-1937

box collection of photographs

1906-1932

Gateshead & Darlington Collection

1885-1960

British Transport Commission collection of photographs

1825-1960

Doncaster Works Collection

1896-1967

Photographs, a collection of 14 silver gelatin prints, featuring stations, locations and trains of railways in Argentina and Uruguay, c1899. From the collection of Oliver Bury, Manager of the Great Northern Railway and Inspector of South American Railways, father of donor. Photographer unknown. Prints: quarter-plate sized images in 8½ x 6½ sleeves, inscribed on reverse. Some foxing and fading.

Bury collection of photographs

1899

Photographs, a collection of approximately 600 filmstrips, 35 mm, produced by the British Transport Films Unit. Featuring Travelogues, Training Films and features on the Transport Industry in Britain, c1950-1986. Stored in canisters.

British Transport Films collection of photographs

1950-1986

Photographs, a collection of 63 silver gelatin prints, 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins to 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 ins, a few captioned on reverse, featuring interior and exterior images of railway ferries from Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Italy and Poland, 1960s-1970s. Photographers include: Moreschi Giorgio, Italy and S J Bildservice, Stockholm, Sweden, collected by Dr Patrick Ransome-Wallis.

Ransome-Wallis Collection of photographs

1960-1979

Photographs. A collection of 75 photographs of Associated Humber Lines vessels.

associated humber lines photographs

1905-1970

Photographs, a collection of approximately 1,600 silver gelatin film negatives, 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 ins, mainly featuring images of British Rail (London Midland Region) and British Rail (Eastern Region) locomotives, trains, permanent way and railway infrastructure, mostly in Nottingham area, c1950-1963. Photographer: Raymond Walter Sheppard.

Sheppard collection

1950-1963

Photographs, a collection of approximately 2,490 35mm black and white and colour copy transparencies, featuring views of locomotives, carriages , wagons, road vehicles, workshops, stations, bridges, peoples, shipping and events. Companies represented include the Great Western Railway, North Eastern Railway, London & North Western Railway, London & South Western Railway, Southern Railway, South Eastern Railway and Midland Railway, c1835-1965. The work of several photographers including official company photographers and those represented in the Locomotive Publishing Company and Locomotive and General Railway Photographs collections.

B N Nunns Collecvtion

1835-1965

Photographs, a collection of approximately 1,600 silver gelatin prints, 2 x 2 ins to 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 ins, in ten albums, captioned most numbered and 254 35mm colour slides. Mainly featuring images of British Rail (London Midland Region) and British Rail (Eastern Region) locomotives, trains, permanent way and railway infrastructure, mostly in Nottingham area, c1950-1963. Photographer: Raymond Walter Sheppard.

Sheppard collection

1950-1963

Photographs, a collection of 3 silver gelatin glass negatives, 3¼ x 4¼ ins; and 19 cellulose nitrate film negatives, 1¾ x 2¾ ins to 2½ x 3½ ins; 4 lantern slides, 3¼ x 3¼ ins; and 44 silver prints, 1¾ x 2¾ ins to 10 x 7 ins; featuring the London & North Western Railway, London Midland & Scottish Railway, British Railways, Narrow Gauge and independent railways and railways in France, c1867 to 1960. From the collection of G Phillips-Smith, the work of various photographers.

Phillips-Smith collection of photographs

1867-1960

Photographs, a collection of 10 silver gelatin glass negatives, 6 x 4 ins to 8½ x 6½ ins, featuring Southern Railway, including Guildford Shed, in th e1930s. The work of Donovan E H Box.

box collection of photographs

1930-1939

Photographs, a collection of 171 4¼ x 3¼ ins silver gelatin glass negatives, featuring locomotives and trains of the London Tilbury & Southend Railway, Great Northern Railway, London & North Western Railway, North London Railway, London & North Eastern Railway, c1906-1927. The work of K H Leech and an unidentified photographer.

Leech collection of photographs

1906-1927

Collection of photographs produced by Murray Close for film publicity purposes.

Collection of photographs produced by Murray Close for film publicity purposes

1987-2008

Photographs, a collection of 46 silver gelatin glass negatives, 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins, featuring views of locomotives and trains of the London & North Eastern Railway, Southern Railway and London Midland & Scottish Railway, many taken near Milford Tunnel in Derbyshire. Also industrial locomotives, Ffestiniog Railway and Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway c1930-1939. Photographer: Frank Carrier.

Photographs, a collection of 46 silver gelatin glass negatives

1930-1939

Photographs, a collection of approximately 1580 colour and black and white prints, all sizes, 185 colour transparencies 6cm - 7 X 5 ins, and 12 colour negatives 3½ x 2½ ins to 5 x 4 ins. Featuring advertising and publicity photographs of the interiors and exteriors of Sealink vessels, passengers, docks, freight traffic and container handling, c1950-1978. Also a small number of earlier railway ferry services, and the London & North Eastern Railway East Coast ports, c1910-1930s. the work of official and commissioned photographers.

Sealink collection of photographs

1910-1978

Photographs, a collection of 395 silver gelatin glass prints, 8 ½ x 6½ ins, in 6 albums and 14 loose album pages mounted with 28 prints, 8 ½ x 6½ ins, featuring static viewss of London Midland & Scottish Railway and British Rail (London Midland Region) road vehicles, mainly photographed at Bedford. The work of official photographers and also commercial and industrial photographers eg Veale & Co and F Webber.

Photographs, a collection of 395 silver gelatin glass prints

1936-1968

Photographs, a collection of 294 black and white and 36 colour prints 5 x 4 to 10 x 8 ins, 275 35mm colour transparencies, 15 lantern slides and one black and white film negative, 5 x 4 ins. Prints numbered and captioned on reverse. Featuring images of carriage construction at York and Doncaster Works, and wagon construction at Faverdale Works, Darlington. The work of London & North Eastern Railway and British Railways official photographers. Also known as the Peppercorn Training collection, after the name of the training centre in York where it was once located.

Peppercorn collection

Photographs, a collection of approximately 4,980 35mm colour transparencies and 1000 black and white silver gelatin prints, mainly 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins to 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 ins, featuring railways of Europe, Turkey, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, also British Railways, including British Rail (Western Region) diesel engines and industrial locomotives photographed in Wales, London, warwickshire and Staffordshire, c1959-1963. Photographer: believed to be A Milligan.

milligan collection

1959-1963

Photographs, a collection of approximately 135 glass negatives, 4¼ x 3¼ to 6 x 4 ins and approximately 102 6 cm cellulose nitrate film negatives, together with 102 silver gelatin prints, 8 x 6 ins to 10 x 8 ins, featuring railways in Britain, c1936-1958, with particular emphasis on the London Midland & Scottish Railway, London & North Eastern Railway and British Railways East Coast and West Coast Main Lines, and the Settle to Carlisle line. Also includes a small number of images of the Great Western Railway and Western Region and accidents. The work of H Leslie Overend.

Overend collection of photographs

1936-1958

Photographs, a collection of 74 card-mounted prints, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 ins to 15 x 12 ins, most captioned, featuring locomotives and trains of France, Bulgaria, Czecholslovakia, Yugoslavia, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, Finland, Germany, Poland and Switzerland, also a few images of London Midland & Scottish Railway and British Railways locomotives, 1930s-1960s. Photographer: Patrick Ransome-Wallis.

Ransome-Wallis collection

1930-1969

Photographs, a collection of 8 silver gelatin glass negatives, 8 ½ x 6½ ins, featuring views of Great North of Scotland Railway locomotives, 1885-1900. Photographs form part of the Locomotive Publishing Company Collection (LPC) and are possibly the work of R H Bleasdale.

Photographs, a collection of 8 silver gelatin glass negatives

1885-1900

Photographs, a collection of 88 silver gelatin glass negatives, 3½ x 2½ ins to 5½ x 3½ ins, and one 4¼ x 3¼ ins silver gelatin lantern slide, featuring the Great Northern Railway, Great Western Railway, Caledonian Railway, c1889-1929. From the collection of R Brookman and including the work of P W Pilcher.

Leech/Brookman collection of photographs

1889-1929

Photographs, 2 boxes of silver gelatin glass negatives. Featuring the Shildon Wagon Works of the North Eastern Railway, London & North Eastern Railway, British Railways, c1910-1957. The work of official photographers.

Shildon Collection of Photographs (additional)

1910-1957

Photographs, a collection of 107 4¼ x 3¼ ins silver gelatin glass negatives featuring the London Midland & Scottish Railway, c1923-1939. Some earlier material including the Caledonian Railway, but predominantly copy negatives from LMS official collections. From the collection of W Beckerlegge.

Leech/Beckerlegge collection of photographs

1923-1939

Photographs, a collection of 214 black and white silver gelatin prints, 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins, some captioned, featuring interior and exterior views of railway ferries from Britain, Finland, Norway, Italy, USA, Canada and Sweden, also stills from a Rank Organisation film, "The Heroes of Telemark", c1926-1960. Photographers include Aeromarine Fotos, Kent, the Western Pacific Railroad, USA, Canadian National Railways, Fototeca Centrale, Italy and S J Bildservice, Stockholm, Sweden, collected by Dr Pat Ransome-Wallis.

Ransome-Wallis collection

1926-1960

Photographs, a collection of 9 silver gelatin negatives, 15 x 12 ins from the Horwich Works of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and London Midland & Scottish Railway, featuring posed views of locomotives in "works grey" paint, the work of official company photographers, c1900-1927.

Lowe collection of Horwich negatives

1900-1927

Photographs, a collection of 14 modern silver prints. Featuring scenes showing bomb damge to, and repairs undertaken at Charing Cross River Bridge and Southwark Park Road Bridge, 1944. the work of Southern Railway Official Photographers. Accompanied by handwritten notes by Mr Randall, describing repairs to both bridges. Prints: 6½ x 4¾ ins, most inscribed on reverse with location, dates and negative numbers (1318/44, 1317/44. 1544/44, 1547/44, 2679/44, 2678/44, 2682/44, 2684/44, 2675/44)..

randall collection of photographs

1944

Photographs, a collection of 8 silver gelatin prints, featuring Great Northern Railway views of Breydon Viaduct, great Yarmouth; and trains at Doncster, Peterborough and Wood Green, London, 1904-1905. From the collection of Oliver Bury, Manager of GNR 1902-1912, father of donor. Photographer unknown. Prints: 7¼ x 5 ins to 6¼ x 5¼ ins. Six are inserted into card sleeves and inscribed on reverse. Two are card-mounted, one inscribed on reverse. Fair condition.

bury collection of photographs

1904-1905

A collection of photographs featuring British Railways (Western Region) Signalling, c1950-1977. Approximately 1,570 silver gelatin prints, colour and black and white, numbered and captioned; 322 transparencies, 35 mm; 51 triacetate "safety" film negatives, 35 mm to 4 x 5 ins; 8 transparencies, large format, 7 lantern slides and one 8 mm cine film "Signal Erection No 2". The work of official photographers, complete with manuscript register.

British Railways Western Region Signalling Collection of Photographs

1950-1977