RMweb Gold Adam1701D Posted January 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2020 In 2020, I will be moving to Spain and thus have to drastically downsize my railway interests. I have amassed quite a large photo collection, with albums dating from the mid 1980s until the early 90s and a lot of loose photos after that. Unfortunately, I will not have room to move or store these and would like to dispose of the images to an interested person or organisation. From 1987 to 1997 I worked for BR at Kings Cross and Peterborough and many of the images are London-based covering the transition to sectorisation and various new liveries. A lot of the images were taken with a modeller's eye and also an eye to the future with the electrification of the ECML getting a lot of focus. If anyone can help me pass this collection on to someone who would appreciate it, I would be so grateful. It is way too large to post, so would need collecting from Peterborough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Max Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 (edited) Personal message sent. Edited January 2, 2020 by Blue Max Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2020 Personally I would first offer them to a publisher of some sort so they don't disappear forever. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Personally I would first offer them to a publisher of some sort so they don't disappear forever. Mike. One issue with that is publishers cannot store huge amounts of photos so they will be quickly sorted, the exceptional ones kept and all the others binned. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Get them scanned, put on a disc and take them with you. You will regret losing them. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 3 minutes ago, Tim V said: Get them scanned, put on a disc and take them with you. You will regret losing them. Which would take hours and hours, time I feel the OP cannot spare. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Western Star Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Please consider offering the photographs to the Historical Model Railway Society. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adam1701D Posted January 3, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2020 Many thanks for the replies and offers. I have offered the collection to the HMRS, who I'm sure will be excellent custodians. It's sad to have to part with these memories but the sacrifice will be well worth it. 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hadyn Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Good result, well done, something I will need to face ere long Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midroyal Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 If the HMRS do not want some or all of them, please let me know as I would like to consider publishing them and making them available to a wider appreciative audience. I will quite happily collect 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midroyal Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I know I'm late but have these gone? Rodney Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I'm slowly disposing of my collection of feeble efforts by scanning and posting them freely on here, as no one in my family are interested in them in the least, i might as well share them with folks who are. I'm just going through my classic vehicles and old bus collections this week. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Anything Irish among it all? If so I would be happy to give them a good home. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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