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Windwood Collection of photographs

1910-1911

Photographs, a collection of 22 albumen prints featuring locomotives built by Beyer Peacock & Co, Neilson & Co, Robert Stephenson & Co, Emil Kessler and Sil for Austro-Hungarian Railways, Great North of Scotland Railway, and the London & South Western Railway, c1859-1875. Includes 1 print of Elgin Station. Photographers include James Mudd, J Stuart and W Mayer. (schedule on file).

Collection of locomotive photographs

1859-1875

Photographs, a collection of approximately 1600 safety film copy negatives, 5 x 4 ins, copied from prints produced by the Gloucester Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd. Featuring mineral wagons, road vehicles and carriages and wagons constructed for British railway companies in south Wales, the Midlands and the West; also for overseas companies c1885-1964. Original images were the work of official photographers.

Gloucester Carriage & Wagon Co. Collection

1885-1964

Photographs, a collection of 10 albums containing 479 silver gelatin prints, captioned but not numbered. Albums: brown hardback covers, 235 x 158 mm inscribed with subject on front cover and spine. Prints: 4¼ x 3¼ ins, subjects feature locomotives and trains in motion, mostly associated with Scottish railways c1920-1932. Photographer: J. Clarke. (schedule on file)

J Clarke collection

1920-1932

Album: with green hardback covers. The front inside cover is inscribed with the subject in pencil. Comprises 14 pages and 22 silver gelatin prints, 6" x 6" and was compiled by FG Smith, Locomotive Superintendent of the Highland Railway, 1912-1915. Photographs show views of workshops for construction and repair of locomotives and passenger and freight rolling stock. Also a packet of hand-painted photographs and silver gelatin prints, 10 x 7 ins - 4¾ x 2¾ ins, showing views of Bruges and Ostend, a railway accident, motor cars and the Smith family, namely Frederick (FG), his wife Lilian and Stephen Smith, bulmer's cousin. There are also two colour postcards of North Eastern Railway engines.

f g smith photograph album and collection

1912-1915

Photographs, a collection of 3 card-mounted albumen prints 6½ x 4¼ ins and 1 modern copy print 4¾ x 3¾ ins. (1) Cabinet print of London Brighton & South Coast Officials c1890s; (2) Great Western Railway staff posed outside Taunton Station, William Matlocks Chapman, grandfather of donor, shown third from left c1880s; (3) Staff outing to Penzance, Cornwall, Staffposed on top of and within a coach harnessed to 4 horses. W M Chapman shown on top of a coach third from right c1880s; (4) Modern copy print featuring W M Chapman as Station Master at Bradford-on-Avon, Great Western Railway, seated at this desk, writing. Original taken after 1914.

Photographs, a collection of 3 card-mounted albumen prints and 1 modern copy print

1880-1915

A Collection of 147 photographs taken by W J Barker. 147 glass plate negatives featuring posed views of North Eastern and Midland Railway locomotives at York, Newcastle and Gateshead, c. 1890-1900 and London & North Eastern Railway and London Midland & Scottish Railway locomotives and trains in Yorkshire c. 1923-1933. Also a small number of copy negatives of engravings and Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotives photographed on display at Darlington Station in 1894.

W J Barker Collection

1890-1933

A collection of photographs by photographer Jack Templeton of approximately 2,046 black and white film negatives, 450 colour film negatives and 162 black and white and colour prints. Featuring British Railways steam locomotives, mainly in Scotland, breakdown cranes, derailments, minor accidents, industrial locomotivees and preserved engines, c 1950-1975.

Templeton Collection

1950-1975

A collection of photographs depicting British Rail services and operations, c 1980 - 1992. Approximately 19,840 transparencies, 60 negatives and 40 silver gelatin prints depicting commuters, stations and facilities - including disused and derelict stations - and destinations. The work of British Railways' Central Advertising Unit.

British Railways Board Central Advertising Department Photographs

1980 -1992