Catalogue description Clapham (British Transport Commission) archive of historic railway images

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Details of The Clapham (BTC) Collection
Reference: The Clapham (BTC) Collection
Title: Clapham (British Transport Commission) archive of historic railway images
Description:

This collection, compiled by the British Transport Commission, is a wide-ranging archive of historic images covering railways in Britain from their earliest days until the 1950s. The photographs include views of locomotives, carriages, wagons, road vehicles, workshops, stations, bridges, people, shipping and events. (c1825 (copies of contemporary illustrations) -- 1960).

 

The collection also contains the work of Southern Railway official photographers dating from 1939 until the company's nationalisation in 1948, and there are photographs of locomotives, shipping, and events, with numerous Second World War views of bomb damage to stations and depots in the southern counties of England.

 

Part listed in handwritten registers, with large numbers of reference prints available for consultation in the Reading Room.
Date: c1825-1960
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

British Transport Commission
Physical description: c8,500 negatives
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
  • Second World War, 1939-1945

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