Catalogue description The T B Sands collection of railway photographs

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Details of The Sands Collection
Reference: The Sands Collection
Title: The T B Sands collection of railway photographs
Description:

It is composed of prints and 35mm film negatives showing railways in Wales, the Midlands and southern England, particularly the Didcot, Newbury & Southampton line. There is also an archive of Sands' notes on these lines. There are rudimentary notebooks, but no comprehensive lists. Sands captioned but did not number the prints in his albums, so it is difficult to match images with the appropriate negatives.
Date: c1949-1956
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Sands, Tom B, fl 1923-1980, author and photographer
Physical description: approx 475 negatives; 475 prints
Subjects:
  • Transport infrastructure
Administrative / biographical background:

A former employee of the Barry Railway, Sands was an author as well as a photographer, writing a history of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway and several articles on Welsh topics for 'Railway Magazine' in 1951 and 1952, using his photographs to illustrate them. The NRM acquired the Sands collection shortly after his death in 1980.

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