Catalogue description Earlestown Wagon Works, photographs

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Details of Earlestown Wagon Works Collection
Reference: Earlestown Wagon Works Collection
Title: Earlestown Wagon Works, photographs
Description:

This collection covers only the early years of the twentieth century, when the works built vehicles for the LNWR.

 

The collection is listed, with some reference prints available for consultation in the Reading Room.
Date: c1900 --1910
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Earlestown Wagon Works
Physical description: 130 negatives
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

The London & North Western Railway took over the Earlestown Carriage & Wagon Works in 1853, and by the beginning of the twentieth century the works was producing some 4,000 wagons a year. Road vehicles were also built there. The works came under the control of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway on grouping in 1923, and new mass production techniques were introduced the following year.

 

Earlestown Works closed in 1963, when remaining production was transferred to nearby Horwich.

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