Catalogue description The J F Henton collection of railway photographs

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Details of The Henton Collection
Reference: The Henton Collection
Title: The J F Henton collection of railway photographs
Description:

It is composed of film negatives, and 35mm colour transparencies. The negatives show locomotives of the GWR; LNER; LMS; the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway; Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railway, London Transport; locomotives of British Railways main regions including diesel and electric trains and preserved locomotives. Also represented are railways in Ireland, France and Switzerland. Henton also made records of the rail tours arranged by the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society from 1953 to 1965, and included cuttings and itineraries in his albums.

 

The transparencies cover British Railways, preserved railways, rail tours and overseas railways and date from about 1955 to 1985. There is also an album of 138 postcards collected by a schoolboy, Master Donald Pearson, between 1905 and 1906. It covers railway stations, locomotives of the GWR, LNWR, and some views obtained from the Locomotive Publishing Company.

 

The collection is listed and numbered, ordered by railway company and locomotive type. Twenty-one albums contain reference prints.
Date: c1905-1985
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Henton, John Fletcher, fl 1955-1985, of Derbyshire
Physical description: approx 2,825 prints; Approx 2,390 negatives; 225 colour transparencies
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

J F Henton was admitted to the Railway Photographic Society in the early 1950s. The NRM acquired the Henton Collection in 1993.

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