Catalogue description The A Burst collection of Southern Railway photographs

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Details of The Burst Collection
Reference: The Burst Collection
Title: The A Burst collection of Southern Railway photographs
Description:

This collection of twenty-eight albums, acquired by the NRM in 1982, concentrates almost exclusively on the locomotives of the companies which were combined to form the Southern Railway in 1923. The photographs feature the LSWR's Beattie, Adams, Drummond and Urie designs and the locomotives of the LBSCR in some detail, together with engines of the South Eastern Railway, the London, Chatham & Dover Railway and the South Eastern & Chatham Railway. The Isle of Wight is also represented, whilst additional albums cover light railways, the LNWR and the Great Northern Railway. A schedule of albums is available, but the prints are neither listed nor captioned.
Date: c1880-1940
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Burst, A, fl 1880-1940
Physical description: approx 3,470 prints in 28 albums
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

Few, if any, of the photographs were taken by Burst and many were evidently purchased from the Real, Tidey, LGRP and LPC collections, which are now held by the NRM.

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