Catalogue description London Brighton & South Coast Railway official photographs

These official company photographs show locomotives under construction at the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway's Brighton Works. (Further references to the Brighton Locomotive Works are to be found in other NRM collections). There are also static views of carriages, engines and tenders at Brighton, Lancing and at Crumbles sidings in Eastbourne, the Royal Train at Battersea and at Epsom Downs for the Derby, Pullman cars used on the 'Southern Belle' service and trials carried out on various locomotives.

There are also four negatives of Great Northern locomotives, probably because Douglas Earle Marsh, who was Locomotive Superintendent for the LBSCR for much of the period covered by this collection, had worked under H A Ivatt as Chief Assistant Mechanical Engineer of the GNR.

The collection is listed, and there are reference prints in a binder available in the Reading Room.

London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

• Railway transport

A small number of LBSCR official photographs also feature in the Eastleigh collection (listed separately in the NRM collections).