Catalogue description J F Bruton collection of photographs of Britain's smaller railway companies

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Details of The J F Bruton Collection
Reference: The J F Bruton Collection
Title: J F Bruton collection of photographs of Britain's smaller railway companies
Description:

The J F Bruton collection, which is composed of film and glass negatives of varying sizes, concentrates primarily on Britain's smaller railway companies, including the Railway, the Welsh Highland Railway and the Leek & Manifold Railway. The Glyn Valley Tramway and the Wantage Tramway are also featured, as are the Isle of Man Railway, Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway, Ashover Light Railway and the Groudle Glen Railway. The collection also includes industrial locomotives, the infrastructure of the Hetton Colliery Railway and approximately fifty negatives featuring the railways and steam tramways of the Netherlands.

 

Manuscript list of 332 negatives giving details of railway company, location, locomotive, wheel arrangement and name. Some reference prints.
Date: c1930-1939
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Bruton, J F, fl 1930-1939, railway photographer and member of the Newcomen Society
Physical description: 735 negatives; 72 transparencies
Subjects:
  • Railway transport

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