Catalogue description The Eric collection of railway prints

This record is held by Search Engine (National Railway Museum)

Details of The Mason Collection
Reference: The Mason Collection
Title: The Eric collection of railway prints
Description:

The collection is composed of albums of prints showing a wide variety of locomotive classes, Horwich Works, station and line views, tunnels, locomotive sheds and railway mishaps from the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway; also accompanying notebooks kept by Mason on subjects such as locomotives, re-signalling in Southport in 1919 and Manchester in 1929, electrification and press cuttings on the L& YR from the Railway Magazine; further albums of photographs and postcards feature a wide range of railway companies, from pre-grouping days onwards.

 

A schedule of the albums is available, detailing the subjects covered. The prints come from a wide variety of sources, including negatives held by the NRM, such as the LGRP, LPC and Horwich Works collections but in most instances there are no negatives.
Date: c1880-1960
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Mason, Eric, (1894-1970), Assistant District Motive Power Superintendent, Stoke-on-Trent and author, pseudonym Rivington.
Physical description: Seventy-three albums containing approx 15,000 prints
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

Mason published an acclaimed work on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway as well as another book under the pseudonym of 'Rivington'. He was a member of the Stephenson Locomotive Society.

 

The NRM acquired the Mason Collection in 1979.

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