Catalogue description Sealink ferry services publicity and advertising photographs

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

Details of The Sealink Collection
Reference: The Sealink Collection
Title: Sealink ferry services publicity and advertising photographs
Description:

This collection covers the operation of British Railways' ferry services, with particular emphasis on the period from 1965 to 1978. There are photographs of docks, freight traffic, container handling and passengers, mainly taken for publicity or advertising purposes. Ships featured include the 'Antrim Princess', 'Sarnia', 'Amsterdam', 'Vortigern', 'Avalon', 'Anselm', 'Maid of Kent', 'Hengist'. 'Lord Warden' and 'Caledonia Princess'. A small number of images feature earlier railway ferry services, and there are also photographs of the LNER's east coast ports, fish being landed at Grimsby and ferries that operated in the 1930s.

 

The prints are listed by vessel, location or date. The negatives are also listed, with brief descriptions of subject and date where known. However, negatives for the majority of images in this collection are not held by the NRM.
Date: c1910-1978
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Sealink Ferries
Physical description: approx 1,580 prints; 185 colour transparencies; 12 negatives, including 8 colour
Subjects:
  • Sea transport

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