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Andrew Farmer Thompson

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:29 pm
by colinskene
My Great Grandfather was Andrew Farmer Thompson from Berwick upon Tweed, an engine driver for LNER in the 20' and 30's. I would love to find a photo of him driving an engine at any of the stations on the mainline. Where could I find photos of the engines he would most likely to have driven. I have photos of him and would recognise him.

Any ideas welcome.

Colin Skene

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:49 pm
by richard
There will be lots of photos but most will be spread amongst private collections.

Two places worth a look would be the Ken Hoole Study Centre in Darlington:

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/m.h.ellison/ ... /index.htm

And the Archives at the National Railway Museum:

http://www.nrm.org.uk/home/home.asp

An allocation list during the 1920s/30s for Berwick would give you a list of possible locomotives. If you knew the routes he ran then this would help narrow the list down.


Richard