A collection of postcards and some drawings of British and international locomotives, with some related printed material collected by Chard. Many of the images have been digitised and can be viewed on the individual catalogue records.
Many images are from series released by "Locomotive Magazine", mainly silver gelatin and collodion photoreal postcards. Monochrome unless stated otherwise. Published by Locomotive Publishing Company, unless stated otherwise. Where build year is known this has been noted in the description, the date field being that of publication. Each image card has been individually catalogued.
Featured companies:
- London and North Western Railway
- Midland Railway
- Great Western Railway
- Great Northern Railway
- Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
- Great Central Railway
- Taff Vale Railway
- Caledonian Railway
- North British Railway
- Glasgow and South Western Railway
- Highland Railway
- Great North of Scotland Railway
- Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
- Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway
- Dublin and South Eastern Railway
- Overseas Railways
- Railway disasters
- Rhymney Railway
- Barry Railway
- Great Eastern Railway
- Hull and Barnsley Railway [Hull Barnsley & West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Company]
- South Eastern and Chatham Railway [South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies Joint Management Committee]
- London Brighton and South Coast Railway
- North Staffordshire Railway
- Furness Railway
- Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
- London Tilbury and Southend Railway
- North Eastern Railway
- Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway