Catalogue description P C Dewhurst collection of railway locomotive photographs

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Details of The Dewhurst Collection
Reference: The Dewhurst Collection
Title: P C Dewhurst collection of railway locomotive photographs
Description:

The Dewhurst Collection consists of photographs of Midland Railway locomotives taken before the First World War, and engines in South America, Jamaica and the Balkans, particularly Greece. There is also a large body of archive material.

 

Prints are numbered. No comprehensive list is available for the photographs, but a typed schedule for the entirety of the collection exists and some reference prints may be consulted in the Reading Room.
Date: 1904 - 1935
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Dewhurst, P C, 1884 -- 1964, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Central Uruguay Railway
Physical description: 1,011 negatives, 554 prints
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

P C Dewhurst is unique amongst the photographers represented in the National Railway Museum collection for his long service as an overseas railwayman. Having begun his career with the Midland Railway he went on to work for railways in Chile, Jamaica, Colombia, Greece and Uruguay, becoming Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Central Uruguay Railway.

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