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Envelope mounted on card divider item 64 with typed caption, '2400-2401' containing...

Catalogue reference: ZSPC 11/574/65

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This record is about the Envelope mounted on card divider item 64 with typed caption, '2400-2401' containing... dating from [1923 Jun - 1934] in the series W E Hayward Collection. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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ZSPC 11/574/65
Date
[1923 Jun - 1934]
Description

Envelope mounted on card divider item 64 with typed caption, '2400-2401' containing photographic images of these [North Eastern Railway Raven Pacific 4-6-2 locomotives designated Class A2 by the London and North Eastern Railway], see also item 66:

1) Cutting [from 'The Railway Magazine'] undated, monochrome photographic image with printed caption underneath, 'North British Section Train Passing Prince's Street Gardens Edinburgh [After Leaving Edinburgh Waverley Station], LNER [London and North Eastern Railway], NER [North Eastern Railway] Type 4-6-2 No 2400 'City of Newcastle'', photograph by H C Casserley [Henry Cyril Casserley] [image c.1930].

2) Cutting [from 'The Railway Magazine'] undated, monochrome photographic image with printed caption underneath, 'Down 'Norseman' Near New Southgate LNER [London and North Eastern Railway], NER [North Eastern Railway] Type 4-6-2 No 2400 'City of Newcastle'', photograph by F R Hebron [Frank Hebron] [image dated Summer 1934].

3) Cutting [from 'The Railway Magazine'] undated, monochrome photographic image with printed caption underneath, 'LNER [London and North Eastern Railway] York-Edinburgh Express Near Beningbrough [North Riding of Yorkshire], NER [North Eastern Railway] 4-6-2 Locomotive No 2402 [sic, in fact it is No 2400] 'City of Newcastle'' with a train of mainly clerestory coaches, photograph by J F Dearden [image c.1924-1928].

4) Cutting [from 'The Railway Magazine'] undated, monochrome photographic image with printed caption underneath, 'Down [11.30am King's Cross-Doncaster] Express LNER [London and North Eastern Railway] GN [Great Northern] Section [at New Barnet], North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 Locomotive No 2400' with a train consisting of six- and eight-wheeled coaches, photograph by F R Hebron [Frank Hebron] [his first published railway photograph, image 1924].

5) Cutting [from 'The Railway Magazine'] undated, monochrome photographic image with printed caption underneath, 'Edinburgh-King's Cross [Up 'Flying Scotsman'] Express Near Reston [Berwickshire], North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 Locomotive No 2400 [repainted in LNER livery]', photograph by C J L Romanes [image September 1923].

6) Cutting [from 'The Railway Magazine'] undated, monochrome photographic image with printed caption underneath, '5.45pm Down Express Ready To Leave King's Cross, NER [North Eastern Railway] 4-6-2 Locomotive No 2400' [with former NER dynamometer car No 3591 just visible as the first vehicle in the train and with a pyrometer gauge and steam circulating valve visible on the locomotive firebox because this was one of the test runs to compare the Raven and Gresley Pacific locomotives], photograph by W J Kohning [image June 1923], see also item 66/1.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Non record material
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Open Immediately
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
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