Catalogue description The Macartney Robbins collection of railway photographs

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Details of The Macartney Robbins Collection
Reference: The Macartney Robbins Collection
Title: The Macartney Robbins collection of railway photographs
Description:

It is composed of glass and film negatives and features engines of the LNWR, LMS, Great Eastern, Great Central, Midland Great Northern Joint, NER, North British, LNER, LSWR, LBSCR, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, Southern, GWR, Metropolitan Railway, Kent and East Sussex Railway, Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway and industrial locomotives.

 

A manuscript list is available grouping photographs by locomotive company and giving details of location and engine type but this does not relate to the numbering system of this collection. There are some reference prints available for consultation in the Reading Room.
Date: c1920-1950
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Macartney Robbins, John, d 1953, founder member of the Irish Railway Record Society
Physical description: Approx 305 negatives
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

The NRM acquired the J M Robbins collection from the Irish Railway Record Society.

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