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Shildon Works Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1910-1957

Doncaster Works Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1896-1967

London Midland & Scottish Railway Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1905-1948

Derby Works Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1885-1961

Crewe Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1875 to 1933

Great Eastern Railway Stratford Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1890-1952

British Transport Films Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1950-1986

St Rollox Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1890-1924

Oxford Publishing Company or Railprint Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

Gateshead & Darlington Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1885-1960

Nine Elms Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1885-1910

Horwich Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1889-1933

Bow Locomotive Works

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1890-1910

British Rail Research Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1930-1980

Two Photographs of Hackworth's "Samson" locomotive, 1838

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1838

J Macartney Robbins Collection of Photographs

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1920-1956

Henry Flather Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1866-1870

York Carriage Works Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1904-1946

Sellick Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1908-1985

Wolverton Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1928-1936

Eastleigh Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1910-1935

Hoather collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1938-07-03

SE&CR Unveiling of War Memorial at Dover Marine Station

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1922

Dearden 'Main Line' Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1934-1949

Great Central Railway Extension to London Contract No. 1

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1898

Geoffrey Tippett Collection - Swindon Works & GWR Locomotives [supplied title]

Photographic Collections (Railway)

c. 1930

London & South Western Railway Carriage Photographs

Photographic Collections (Railway)

View over Durham from the cab of Dominion of Canada, 1957

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1957

Photocrom prints, Great Eastern Railway

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1900, about

Irene Easton Railway Queen

Photographic Collections (Railway)

Album of photographic prints depicting scenes from the railway career of Gilbert Savill Szlumper, General Manager of the Southern Railway

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1902-1942

Two Photographs, Mounted, of Hackworth's improved spring saf

Photographic Collections (Railway)

Great Western Railway Weston Mill Viaduct

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1903

Great Western Railway Weston Mill Viaduct

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1903

Two Photographs, mounted, of Hackworth's safety spring valve

Photographic Collections (Railway)

British Railways Eastern Region Headquarters, York, publicity photographs

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1865 - 1979, about
Photograph, ex Southern Railway Works, Southern Railway Merchant Navy Class locomotive No. 21C3 "Royal Mail", in contemporary glazed chrome-plated frame, c.1947

Photograph, ex Southern Railway Works, Southern Railway Merchant Navy Class locomotive No. 21C3 "Royal Mail"

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1947
Two photographs, London Midland & Scottish Railway 4-6-2 No. 6220 'Coronation' in streamlined form and 4-6-2 No. 6200 'Princess Royal', side views, in glazed mahogany frame, 1820mmx1170mm, from Sir William Stanier's office, Derby Works.

Two photographs, London Midland & Scottish Railway 4-6-2 No.6200 'Princess Royal', side views

Photographic Collections (Railway)
Black and white print of Flying Scotsman crossing Wakefield 99 arch viaduct, hauling a train of empty carriages from Carnforth to London, 27 December 1985. The photograph is taken from the back of the train, with the locomotive in the background. Photograph taken by Mr. David Farrar.

Flying Scotsman crossing Wakefield 99 arch viaduct [supplied title]

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1985-12-27
Photographs, black & white prints (and 3 colour and 3 negatives) and postcards, Railways of Sena Sugar Mocambique. Photographs of the premises and the railways on the two estates of the Sena Sugar Mocambique company. The photos show locomotives, wagons, trolleys, factories, flood repairs etc. Includes Hurst Nelson Ltd. record shots of wagons, the sale of which was arranged by Livesey Son & Henderson, consulting engineers. The track was 60cm gauge, and 3' 0 and 3' 6" gauge which connected to the Trans Zambique Railway. The prints are of varying sizes, mostly black and white but with a few colour. Most are captioned and the donor has proved notes. There are a few negatives. Circa 1890s to 1970s?

Railways of Sena Sugar Mocambique

Photographic Collections (Railway)
Photograph album containing 34 photographs and 4 diagrams of gas turbine locomotive no. 18000. The locomotive was made by Brown Boveri of Baden, Switzerland, and tested by British Brown Boveri and British Railways (Western Region) as part of BR's exploration of gas turbine locomotives. The bogies and frame were made by the Swiss Locomotive Works (SLM) of Winterthur. The photographs were all take in Switzerland and show the locomotive at Basle station and at Brown Boveri's works at Baden. There are photographs of the internal machinery, bogies, frames, controls etc. The first photograph shows the locomotive at Basle with Brown Boveri's smaller gas turbine prototype locomotive no. 1101, which remained in Switzerland. The album was assembled as a presentation album to accompany the handover of the locomotive, and according to the donor only two albums were made. The album is accompanied by negatives of four of the pictures, and a print of a painting of the locomotive that was presented at the hand-over.

Brown Boveri Gas Turbine Locomotive No. 18000 (supplied title)

Photographic Collections (Railway)

c. 1949
Photographs, a collection of thirty-three albums, each approximately 315 x 268 x 70 mm, card or hardboard covers, containing a total of approximately 2165 silver gelatin photographic prints up to 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 ins. Featuring newly completed or refurbished railway carriages, wagons, vans and road vehicles and the workshops at Charles Roberts & Company's Horbury works, Wakefield, Yorkshire, c 1925 - 1964. The photographs are glued to proforma pages, most with ink captions. The work of official photographers employed by Charles Roberts & Company.

Charles Roberts photograph album collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1925-c. 1964
Photograph, laminated timber bridge, Borough Road, North Shields, Newcastle & North Shields Railway, built by John and Benjamin Green, Newcastle, c.1839, demolished 1937, in glazed frame, 797mm x 595mm.

Borough Road, North Shields timber bridge

Photographic Collections (Railway)
Black and white photograph of the Staff and residents of the Railway Convalescent Home, Dawlish, 1946. Photographer Chapman & Sons of Dawlish. The names of the group are noted on the back.

Staff and residents of the Railway Convalescent Home, Dawlish

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1946
Photograph, 2,500 KW 660V mercury arc rectifier, Bruce Peebles & Co., Edinburgh, in glazed frame, 530mm x 475mm.

mercury arc rectifier

Photographic Collections (Railway)
Photographs, a collection of approximately 100 35mm colour transparencies. Featuring views of the West Somerset Mineral Railway, Taff Vale Railway and the Canterbury & Whitstable Railway taken during visits made by the Railway Canal and Historical Society, 1962-1964. Photographer: Charles F Klapper.

Klapper Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1962-1964
A collection of photographs taken by J H L Adams, Norman Thompson and others. Approximately 650 silver gelatin glass, cellulose nitrate film and triacetate safety film negatives and 127 silver gelatin triacetate colour negatives featuring railways in Britain and overseas, c1928 to 1970.

j h l adams collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1928-1970
Three photographs of wagons manufactured by W. H. Davis & Sons. The wagons illustrated are a general purpose hopper wagon, a ballast wagon for Bangladesh Railways, and an all-stainless steel van for carrying fertilisers and other corrosive bagged material.

W. H. Davis & Sons wagons

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1979
Photograph of the Superintendent, Officers and Men of the GER Police taken at the Royal Agricultural Show, Norwich, 1911, by the Norwich photographer Charles Aldous. The photograph formerly belonged to (and includes) Constable W. E. Geater (back row, 8th from left), who served with the GER Police from 1906 to 1914.

Superintendent, Officers & Men, Great Eastern Railway Police, Royal Agricultural Show, Norwich, 1911

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1911
Photographs, album featuring the construction of the West Highland line extension from Fort William to Mallaig, Scotland. Brown cloth covered, 230 x 176 x 37mm, 'Mallaig Railway', 48pp, 50 silver gelatin, platinum and POP photographic prints. Also includes views of railways and life in India. Date c 1899 - 1903. Album believed to have been owned by George MacLachlan, an engineer who worked on the construction of the line.

Photographic album, construction of West Highland Line - Fort William to Mallaig

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1899-1903