Catalogue description Brighton Locomotive Works, official photographs

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Details of The Brighton Locomotive Works Collection
Reference: The Brighton Locomotive Works Collection
Title: Brighton Locomotive Works, official photographs
Description:

Includes images of locomotives, carriages and wagons under construction, workshop scenes, passing trains and Southern Railway road vehicles. Some of the photographs were taken at the nearby Lancing Carriage & Wagon Works.

 

The collection is part listed, with some reference prints in binders held in the Reading Room and in a collection of album pages produced by the Southern Railway/British Railways Southern Region.
Date: c1940-1964
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Brighton Locomotive Works
Physical description: Approx 1,960 negatives; Approx 700 prints
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
  • Transport engineering
Administrative / biographical background:

Brighton Locomotive Works was built for the London & Brighton Railway in 1840 and served as the LBSCR's main works until the company's demise on incorporation into the Southern Railway in 1923. Engines built at Brighton included Stroudley's 'Terriers' and Bulleid's Merchant Navy and West Country Pacifics. During the Second World War Brighton Works produced both munitions and locomotives, including the LMS Type 8F 2-8-0 freight engines. Following nationalisation in 1948 British Railways Standards, including the 4MT 2-6-4T were built at the works. Brighton also produced electric units, and the ill-fated 'Leader' class. Locomotive construction and repair ended at Brighton in 1958 and the workshop was finally closed in 1964.

 

Earlier images of Brighton Works feature in the Burtt and LBSCR collections held at the NRM.

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