Catalogue description C E Catton collection of British and Indian railway photographs

Comprises negatives and prints featuring railways in Britain and India, but the collection is dominated by Catton's fascination with the Great Northern C12 4-4-2 tank engine, which is shown in Great Northern, LNER and British Railways service at locations such as Mablethorpe, Sutton-on-Sea, Southend, Saffron Walden, Audley End and Hornsey. There are also copy negatives of locomotives of the South India Railway, the Bengal & North Western Railway, and the Rohilkund & Kumaon Railway. A few colour transparencies show 0-4-4T engines of the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway in 1979 and C12 locomotives in Britain.

As well as the C12s the prints cover GNR lines and stations in London and the Home Counties, GNR Baldwin 2-6-0 locomotives, Burma Railways, South Indian Railways, and the Holland Railway. There is also a small body of material comprising papers and cuttings relating to the Jodhpur Railway, plans of GNR tank locomotives, and a scrapbook of railway-related cuttings.

There is no list or register available and the negatives are un-numbered.

Catton, Charles E, 1899-1981, of London

• Railway transport

The NRM acquired the Catton collection following his death in 1981. The reference prints are not all the work of Catton, but many of the original negatives for these are held in other NRM collections, such as the LPC, LGRP and Ransome-Wallis holdings.