Catalogue description W L Good collection of photographs of the 'Big Four'

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Details of The Good Collection
Reference: The Good Collection
Title: W L Good collection of photographs of the 'Big Four'
Description:

The collection is composed of 4¼x3¼ ins glass negatives and features locomotives and trains of the 'Big Four', primarily LMS locomotives built originally for the Midland, Lancashire & Yorkshire and LNWR together with the LNER's constituent engines constructed for the Great Northern, Great Central and Great Eastern Railways. There are also small numbers of photographs showing the GWR and Southern Railway. The collection is particularly strong in photographs taken in the West Midlands.

 

A manuscript list is available dividing photographs by railway company and giving details of locomotive type and wheel arrangement, engine name and number, location and date.
Date: c1920-1939
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Good, W Leslie, fl 1920-1939, of Kings Norton, West Midlands
Physical description: 683 negatives
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
  • Transport engineering
Administrative / biographical background:

W Leslie Good marketed his work for many years as 'Good Photographs'. The Good Collection was acquired by the NRM in 1994 as part of the Millbrook House holding.

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