Catalogue description The Stephen collection of railway photographs

The Stephen Collection is composed of 4½ x 2¾ and 5½ x 3½ ins glass and film negatives, which typically feature locomotive engines and stations of the North British Railway, Highland Railway, Midland Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway, Glasgow & South Western Railway, Caledonian Railway and the LMS. The photographs mainly show engines at Inverkeithing Central Station, Aberdeen, Perth, Kittybrewster, Dunfermline, Inverness, Stirling and Edinburgh Haymarket. There are also views of locomotives at Nottingham Victoria and at Glasgow St Enoch's stations as well as the renewal of Townhill Road bridge at Dunfermline. The collection also includes posed photographs of LNER locomotives on turntables and a few in motion.

There are six photograph albums containing prints produced from negatives. Most captioned. There are also reference prints in the binders. Part listed.

Stephen, Ranald D, fl 1910-1939, of Inverkeithing, Scotland

• Railway transport

Ranald took his first railway photograph in 1919, concentrating initially on local lines but later travelling to photograph locomotives elsewhere in Scotland. He produced some spectacular views of the Forth Bridge and went on to photograph LMS and LNER locomotives after the grouping. He took his last Scottish railway photograph in 1934, and later moved to the Lake District. Some of the photographs in this collection were taken by Ranald's brother, W D M Stephen.