Catalogue description A W Croughton collection of railway photographs

The Alfred Croughton collection is divided into two portions. The first section, spanning 1923 -- 1957, was acquired by the museum in 1985 as part of the Alliez Collection and shows industrial locomotives. The second portion, c1920 -- 1952, was acquired with the Millbrook House collection in 1994, and mainly features light and narrow gauge railways of Britain and Ireland, together with a small number of preserved historic engines and standard gauge locomotives of the LNER, GNR, NER and GWR.

Croughton, Alfred W, fl 1930-1957, railway photographer, of Bromley, Kent

Alliez: typed list available giving details of company, location, date and locomotive name. Millbrook House: manuscript list available giving details of railway company, engine type, name and number of locomotive, location and date.

Further Croughton negatives feature in the National Railway Museum's Real Photographs collection, identified by an 'X' prefix.

Croughton, who lived in Bromley, Kent, was a prolific photographer. The bulk of his negatives, dating from the early 1920s onwards, are held by Lens of Sutton.