Catalogue description The Teasdale collection of railway photographs

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

Details of The Teasdale Collection
Reference: The Teasdale Collection
Title: The Teasdale collection of railway photographs
Description:

The collection is composed of glass and film negatives, 35mm colour slides and prints, with extensive coverage of British Railways' Southern, Eastern and London Midland regions. The Western Region and locomotives built for the GWR are represented to a lesser degree. There are also photographs of light and industrial railways, Irish and French railways, shipping and railway-related inn signs. Teasdale was a member of the Railway Photographic Society, and ran its Northern Circle for some years. There are examples of his exhibition prints, complete with critical comments by other members of the Society, in the collection.

 

GWR locomotives, industrial, Irish and French negatives part listed. Transparencies and prints may be viewed on request.
Date: c1949-1980
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Teasdale, S E, 1912-1981, electrical engineer, of London.
Physical description: Approx 5,000 negatives; Approx 2,250 prints; Approx 1,840 transparencies
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

Teasdale took his earliest railway photographs, of main line and industrial views in the north of England, in about 1950. Many of Teasdale's photographs were published in the railway press and although in 1960 he moved to London he maintained his links with the north-east. He was also a member of the Stephenson Locomotive Society, and the North Eastern Railway Association.

 

The NRM acquired the collection in 1982.

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