The Transport Treasury for high-
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About Us -
Janet and Barry Hoper are partners in the archive and both are retired squadron leaders.
Barry has recently retired from work as a relief signaller at Insch to concentrate
full time on printing, scanning and maintaining the archive. Janet's administration
and accounting skills are put to good use in the 'Treasury' but she also acts as
an arts administrator and is a full-
The Transport Treasury was started in 1993 after a large accumulation of negatives was acquired from a friend. The Transport Treasury now comprises over 300,000 negatives, mostly railway subjects but with some buses, tractions engines, ships etc. The archive includes work of some well known names such as R C Riley, Dr Ian C Allen, John Robertson, George Heiron, Frank Goudie, Stan Creer, J C Flemons, A E Bennett, Arthur Carpenter, Alec Swain Tony Bennett, Horace Gamble, Roy Vincent, Eric Sawford, inter alia. More material is eagerly sought to build up the archive further for the purpose of providing affordable prints to railway publishers and enthusiasts.
The archive is also open, by appointment, to visitors wishing to surf the unlisted
collections for images and in order to research illustrations for articles etc. A
number of ex-
Should you wish to place your collection with The Transport Treasury, negatives of railway photographs are usually purchased with copyright. However, larger collections (2000+) of good quality, can be placed on loan (minimum of 5 years) and any royalties split 50/50; with this option you retain ownership and copyright of the collection during the period of the loan but royalties earned are subject to material being accepted by publishers. Of course, donations of material are particularly welcome but whatever you choose, you can rest assured that your material will be looked after, your name given credit whenever any material is used (A N Other/Transport Treasury) and you will always be given access to it for prints etc. Additionally, it is always the aim of The Transport Treasury to keep collections intact and not sell off images to fund the purchase of the material as is the practice of other well known archives.
If you require more information or would like to discuss valuations etc, please do
not hesitate to e-
All images are copyright protected and are sold for personal use only. If you wish to publish or use in public any of our images, please enquire for reproduction fee rates. Please note that due to time constraints, images of the negatives listed are not available to view on the web site. We haven't enough years left on this planet to scan the whole archive and produce prints as well.
Orders are restricted to 24 prints per order in order to ensure that everyone receives
a fair share of the darkroom time available. If you require more than 24 prints,
you may place a further order once you have received back your earlier order. Please
note that we do not cash cheques until orders are dispatched.
