Catalogue description The Trevena collection of railway accident photographs

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Details of The Trevena Collection
Reference: The Trevena Collection
Title: The Trevena collection of railway accident photographs
Description:

Features major railway accidents, including the disasters at the Tay Bridge, Dunachton, Thirsk, Welshampton, Wellingborough, Aylesbury, Llanelli, Goswick, Lewes, Preston and Norton Fitzwarren. There are also views of accidents overseas, mostly cuttings taken from contemporary magazines.

 

A typed schedule is available, but no original negatives accompany the collection.
Date: c1858 - 1947
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Trevena, Arthur, 1918-1981
Physical description: Approx 200 prints
Subjects:
  • Transport safety
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

The bulk of this collection was compiled in about 1908. Trevena used many of these photographs in his two 'Trains in Trouble' albums.

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