Mystery Photographs

We have a large photograph archive, but there are about two thousand photographs in it which we cannot identify. Many of them are just photographs of engines with little to identify their surroundings and unless you were the photographer it would be difficult to say where the picture was taken. However, there are a number which have features which might be instantly recognisable by someone, and it is now our intention to ask if you can help. There are some of the photographs below for which we have little or no detail. Any detail you can give would be appreciated, whether it is to do with the engine, rolling stock, location or anything else you can see. Each photograph is numbered, and once a picture has been identified, we will replace it with another from our collection. You can email your comments/suggestions to mysteryphoto@krm.org.uk

The response to this section of the website is getting bigger and bigger, and quicker and quicker!  There are obviously a lot of people with time on their hands!  But there are obviously a lot of very knowledgeable people out there, and a big thank you to those who have written to us with their suggestions as to the identity of some of our photographs. The latest batch also elicited a lot of very useful information, and most were identified very quickly. .  If you want to see previous pictures, and learn where they are (or even to check that the identification is right), then click here.

Here are some more of our unidentified pictures for you to look at:

007 - This picture has defeated even our keenest 'Southern' correspondents.  Please keep trying.  Two possible clues - the owner's grandfather who appears on the photo was a signalman at Barnes Bridge and later a ticket collector at Fareham. Answers please!		12034 - Ex-GWR 5700 class 0-6-0PT number 4665.
10675 - BR Standard class 4 4-6-0 number 75070 leaving a station - but where?		10671 - Another nice easy one for the Southern experts taken from the footplate - in the same series as one or two previously shown for (now identified) Bitterne and Southampton
10670 - Well, just for the enthusiasts, another one in the same series		10208 - Ex-LMSR "Jubilee" class 4-6-0 number 45562 "Alberta" working a special excursion train
79472 - A single platform station at a rural location		79476 - Another unidentified station
79477 - The leading motor-coach is thought to be of Great Eastern origin		79432 - An ex-LNER (NBR) D30 class 4-4-0 on a stopping passenger train at an unknown location possibly in Scotland
72244 - An ex-LNER B1 class 4-6-0 on an express passenger train at an unknown coastal location passing a signal box.		72261 - An ex-GWR "4100" class 2-6-2T banking a freight train through an unknown station.
76601 - An ex-LNER B17 class 4-6-0 standing in a locomotive yard at an unknown location taking water from a water column. Next to it is ex-LNER K3 class 2-6-0 number 61959.		76677 - An ex-LNER A2 class 4-6-2 on a passenger train entering a station at an unknown location.
5662 - Ex-LMSR Ivatt class 2 2-6-2T number 41xxx runs light engine along a section of four-tracked line equipped with third rail electrification.		6382 - A nice easy one for the GWR experts? The front end of an ex-GWR "Castle" class 4-6-0 number 5054 "Earl of Ducie" is seen poking out of an unidentified red-brick built engine shed
7763 - One for the Southern experts - ex-SR diesel 0-6-0 number 15203 at an unknown location.		7209 - Preserved MR class 4P "Compound" 4-4-0 number 1000 with a special train at an unknown location.
9394 - Ex-LMSR 2-8-0 number 48294 in steam at an unknown shed. Patricroft suggested?		7252 - "West Country" class 4-6-2 number 34104 "Bere Alston" at an unknown location, but is the building behind recognisable by someone?
7614 - a bit esoteric maybe, but a North British Railway trespass notice. Maybe the landscape means something to someone		8820 - Ex-LNER class K1 2-6-0 number 62001 at an unknown location.  Consett suggested?
6325 - an unidentified station		5581 - the mountains might hold the key, but no information at all came with this slide
6482 - A crossing keeper's cottage thought to be on the North Staffs Railway		6452 - one of our many industrial pictures, but which colliery?
124 - LMS diesel shunter 1831, reputedly worked most of its life at Coventry. Is this where it is?		2063 - 46240 "City of Coventry" but on which shed?
8823 - K1 2-6-0 no 62046		139 - LNWR 4-6-0 number 25775.  We have had Bayston Hill, Shrewsbury suggested and also somewhere between Rugby and Brinklow??
10237 - 73069 with an 8F in front, but where?  Bury Knowsley Street suggested?  Also Guildford and Bolton.  But which is it please?		218 - USA 2-8-0 number 1707 - Peterborough New England shed suggested, and also Neasden suggested?

We are keen to have as full a catalogue of our photographs as possible, so if you do recognise anything about any of these photographs, please email us on mysteryphoto@krm.org.uk.

Thank you for your help.

Don't forget our next railway photograph fair on July 12th 2008