Catalogue description The Grimwade collection of locomotive prints

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Details of The Grimwade Collection
Reference: The Grimwade Collection
Title: The Grimwade collection of locomotive prints
Description:

The collection comprises an assortment of prints taken from negatives from various sources such as the NRM collections of the Locomotive Publishing Company, Horwich Works, and H Gordon Tidey. They are mainly posed views of pre-grouping locomotive engines, in a standard front three-quarter or side-on position. However there are also views of trains in motion, in snowy and arboreal settings. Companies represented include the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, the Wirral Railway, the NER, Midland, Great Eastern, the South Eastern & Chatham Railway and the LSWR.

 

The album is available to view on request.
Date: c1909
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Grimwade, -, fl 1909, railway worker, of Broome
Physical description: 1 Album of 36 prints
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

This is a small collection inherited by the NRM in 1975 from the Museum of British Transport, Clapham. It is composed of prints mounted in an album collected by Mr Grimwade, who worked with J T Holder's railway at Broome.

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