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Envelope, typed 'Views of Double-Headed Trains', containing one photograph, one postcard...

Catalogue reference: ZSPC 11/567/70

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This record is about the Envelope, typed 'Views of Double-Headed Trains', containing one photograph, one postcard... dating from [1900] - [1965] in the series W E Hayward Collection. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
ZSPC 11/567/70
Date
[1900] - [1965]
Description

Envelope, typed 'Views of Double-Headed Trains', containing one photograph, one postcard :

1) Photograph, 10cm x 14cm, monochrome [identical image to ZSPC 11/567/69/6] '[Midland Railway] 4.30 pm Down Manchester and Liverpool Express', showing two unidentified 4-4-0 locomotives with train, [image c. 1920].

2) Postcard, 9cm x 14cm, monochrome photograph, with manuscript note on reverse 'Down [Goods] Train [Midland Railway], [two] dead tanks for Derby on train, [0-6-0] Engine No. 2423, near Leicester', [image c. 1920].

and 15 cuttings cuttings, unidentified, undated publications, monochrome images:

3) 'Midland Railway, St Pancras [to] Leeds Express near Leicester, Train Engine 4-4-0 Compound No. 1020, piloted by 4-2-2 Engine No. 656', [image c. 1910].

4) Title on reverse 'Two Johnson Class 2 4-4-0s Nos. 432 and 436, seen here as rebuilt by Deeley, leave Carlisle with an up express in about 1908', photographer H Gordon Tidey.

5) [probably 'The Railway Magazine' c. 1910], 'Midland Railway, Double-headed Coal Train passing Radlett for Child's Hill marshalling yards, train engine 'Johnson' 0-6-0 No. 3610, pilot 'Kirtley' 0-6-0 No. 2366', photographer F H Stingemore.

6) 'Manchester [to] Nottingham Train Approaching Chinley LSMR [London Midland and Scottish Railway], 4-4-0 Locomotive No. 412 piloting 0-6-0 No. 3940, [image c. 1930].

7) [probably 'The Railway Magazine', c. 1920], 'Midland Railway, Double-headed 100-wagon train near Mill Hill, 4-4-0 Locomotive No. 438 and No. 3907', photographer F E Mackay.

8) [probably 'The Railway Magazine', c. 1920], 'Main Line Train at No. 7 Arrival Platform [St Pancras Station, London], Pilot old 2-4-0 locomotive, Train Engine three-cylinder Compound 4-4-0 Engine', photographer C Macartney Robbins.

9) [probably 'The Railway Magazine', c. 1920], 'Midland Railway, Up stopping train at Radlett, Pilot Engine Johnson 4-4-0 No. 709 (now superheated), Train Engine, non-superheater rebuilt No. 419', photographer F H Stingemore.

10) [probably 'The Railway Magazine', c. 1920], 'Midland Railway, Down Coal Train between Bedford and Oakley, Train Engine is 4-6-4 type, originally built for work on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, Pilot Engine is 0-6-0 type, class 2', photographer C S Lake.

11) [probably 'The Railway Magazine', c. 1920], 'Midland Railway, Engines Nos. 604, 538 and 771 at Gloucester', photographer C B Harley.

12) [probably 'The Railway Magazine', c. 1920], 'Midland Railway, Down Manchester Express emerging from Elstree Tunnel', 4-4-0 locomotive No. 2209 piloting unidentified 4-4-0, photographer R W King.

13) [probably 'The Railway Magazine', c. 1920], 'Midland Railway, Up Goods Train passing Oakley water troughs, Class 4 0-6-0 superheater locomotive No. 3870 piloting, and Class 1 4-2-2 as Train Engine', photographer F W Goslin.

14) [probably 'The Railway Magazine', c. 1920], 'Midland Railway, Up Coal Train passing Harpenden, Superheater 0-6-0 Engine No. 3864 piloting 2-4-0 Engine No. 212', photographer F H Stigemore.

15) [probably 'The Railway Magazine', c. 1920], 'Midland Railway, Rebuilt Superheater 4-4-0 Engine No. 483 and Rebuilt 4-4-0 No. 411 hauling an Up Fast Goods Train', photographer F H Stigemore.

16) [probably 'The Railway Magazine', c. 1920], 'Midland Railway, Double Headed Up Goods Train approaching Radlett after a snowstorm', photographer F H Stigemore, two 0-6-0 unidentified locomotives.

17) Cutting, unidentified, undated publication [c. 1965], monochrome image with caption on reverse 'A Johnson 2-4-0 pilots a 4-2-2 on a Down Scotch Express at Plumtree near Nottingham at about the turn of the century, a Kirtley outside framed 0-6-0 stands with a coal train waiting for the express to clear', [image c. 1900].

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Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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