Catalogue description The Soole collection of Great Western Railway photographs

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Details of The Soole Collection
Reference: The Soole Collection
Title: The Soole collection of Great Western Railway photographs
Description:

All of the main GWR classes of locomotive are represented, generally hauling trains, at favoured locations such as Bristol Temple Meads, Patchway, Claverham, Filton and Stoke Gifford. Soole used 4½ x 3½ ins and quarter plate cameras, and his work is usually of a high quality. Also includes fine views of Canadian railways taken by Soole in 1934 and 1936.

 

The collection is part-listed, based on Soole's own notes, ordered in numerical sequence.

 

The Canadian photographs are all listed. Entries in the lists, however, sometimes lack detail.

 

Photocopy of annotated album featuring about 300 captioned photographs taken in 1933.

 

Reference prints for much of the Soole collection, ordered by locomotive type, are available for consultation in the Reading Room.
Date: 1933-1938
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Soole, G H, 1913-1970, British Railways traffic manager
Physical description: Approx 1,675 negatives
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

Soole began taking railway photographs in about 1933, concentrating almost exclusively on GWR passenger and freight trains in the Bristol area. The GWR, however, discouraged its employees from taking railway photographs so the collection ceases abruptly in 1938; the year Soole joined the company.

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