Guide to the Buckland collection of railway transport photographs [selected items], 1930-1988

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Summary

Collection number:
P861
Extent:
Described in Series 1 - 3: 28 cold store folders + 18 negative boxes + 1 map + 1 object
Language:
English and English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of item], Buckland collection of railway transport photographs, National Library of Australia, P861, [Item number(s)]'.
Availability:
Available

Background

Content Summary:
This collection comprises photographic prints, slides, and negatives relating to Australian railway history.
Biographical Note:

John Leonard Buckland (1915-1989) was born in Camperdown, Victoria. He was the son of a barrister and the nephew of S.M. Bruce, Prime Minister in 1923-29. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. He worked on a coastal steamer and then as a cadet journalist in the Victorian Railways Public Relations Department. During World War II, he was a photographer with both the RAAF and the Australian Army. He later worked for the transport publisher Frank Shennan and in 1954 he joined the Australian Government Department of Trade as a journalist. He moved to the Australian Conservation Foundation in 1970 and retired in 1975.

Buckland had a lifelong interest in railways. As a boy, he had been a member of the Victorian Model Railway Society. In 1937 he was involved in the promotion campaign for the inauguration of the Sydney–Melbourne express train Spirit of Progress. In his retirement in Melbourne he devoted most of his time to his railway interests. He was an original member of the Australian Railway Historical Society and president of the Victorian Division. He also belonged to the Light Railway Research Society of Australia. He had an extraordinary knowledge of Australian steam locomotives and wrote numerous articles about them. In his later years he travelled widely around Australia to inspect and photograph steam locomotives and railway operations generally.

Buckland was co-author of Steam locomotives of the Victorian railways, which was published posthumously by the Australian Railway Historical Society in 2002.

Access and use

Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright restrictions may apply, please refer to the collection's (catalogue record) for further information.
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of item], Buckland collection of railway transport photographs, National Library of Australia, P861, [Item number(s)]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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