Catalogue description British Railways Eastern Region, official photographs

During the First World War the Great Eastern Railway's photographers, based at the company's headquarters at London's Liverpool Street station, began to record engineering works on the network of lines that served Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. Their photographs initially covered bridges, tunnels, and viaducts, but eventually branched out to feature stations, shipping, goods depots and some events. When the GER was absorbed into the newly formed London & North Eastern Railway in 1923 the photographers' brief was extended to cover the lines of the former Great Northern and Great Central Railways serving the north of England. This role continued on nationalisation in 1948, when the Liverpool Street photographers' documented work on the southern area of British Railways Eastern Region.

There are further images of the GER network in the Windwood collection, while official photographs of vehicle construction at Stratford and Temple Mills Wagon Works feature in the Stratford Locomotive Works collection (both collections are held by the NRM).

British Railways Eastern Region

• Railway transport
• Transport engineering

Photographers' registers, together with annotated registers compiled by the Great Eastern Railway Society. These photographs were part listed by the Railprint Joint Venture scheme, which marketed these images in the late 1970s and early 1980s.