Catalogue description The S G Morgan collection of Southern Railway civil engineering photographs

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Details of The S G Morgan Collection
Reference: The S G Morgan Collection
Title: The S G Morgan collection of Southern Railway civil engineering photographs
Description:

These albums cover Southern Railway civil engineering operations in the inter-war years. Morgan had special responsibility for bridges and these are well represented in the albums, which also include views of the construction of engine sheds, workshops, station buildings, wharves, power stations and the permanent way in and around London.

 

Albums available to view on request, but no original negatives accompany the collection
Date: 1924-1936
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Morgan, Sydney G, b 1884, civil engineer
Physical description: Three albums containing 250 prints
Subjects:
  • Transport infrastructure
  • Civil engineering
Administrative / biographical background:

Sydney Morgan trained as a civil engineer, working initially on designing bridges, buildings, piers, wharves and permanent way for colonial railways. He later worked for the Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company and then the South Eastern & Chatham Railway, and on grouping in 1923 was employed by the Southern Railway.

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