Large collection of bound historic railway magazines

[mole125]

Apologies if this is the wrong place to post or against the rules.

We have been sorting through my late Father-in-law's estate and he was an avid collector of railway magazine.

He has a very large collection of professionally bound railway magazines including many complete sets, and we are looking for the best way to rehome them somewhere. Would anybody be interested in any of them, or have any suggestions who else we can try?

We've already tried approaching various organizations, auctioneers etc without any luck so unfortunately it is looking like we may have to dispose of them which would be a great shame given their historic value.

The collection consists of the following:

1. The Railway Magazine Illustrated:
   • Complete set from vol I July 1897 - vol 164 2018.
   • July 1896 (individual magazine)
   • vol IV jan-june 1899,
   • vol vi jan-june 1900,
   • vol 88 1942,
   • vol 90 1944,
   • vol 91 1945
2. Rail Enthusiast / Rail
   • Issue 1 April 1981- Rail issue 853 May 2018
3. Backtrack
   • vol 1 - vol 33
4. Railways
   • vol i - vol xxii
5. British Railway Illustrated
   • vol 1- vol 27
6. Railway Reflections
   • 1980-1985
7. Steam Railway
   • 1979/1980 vol 1 - 2016 vol 37.
8. Modern Railway
   • 1962 volume xv -2015 vol lxxii,
   • 2019 lxxvi
9. Steam World
   • vol 1 1981- vol 32 2018
   • vol 2 1982,
10. Modern Railway Pictorial
    • 1-7,
    • 1981-1991
11. The Railway World
    • xxxviii - 23 1976,
    • lxi- lxii
12. Heritage railway
    • 1999-2019
13. Steam days
    • 1986-2014
14. Trains illustrated
    • vol 1 -14 1961,
    • 1967-69
15. TI Steam Alive
    • 1969-1971
16. TI BR Then and Now
    • 1973 - 1977,
17. TI Express Trains
    • 1977-78,
18. TI Railway Preservation
    • 1978 - 81,
19. TI Railway Heritage
    • 1984-86
20. The Last Years of British Steam
    • Issue 1 (hard back book)
    • Issue 2-5 (magazines)
21. Railway Observer
    • 1976-1984
22. Steam Classics
    • 1990-1997
23. Traction (in official display folders)
    • 1-108,
    • 120-139,
    • 154-163,
    • 208-244
24. British Stream Railways (in official display folders)
    • 1-3

 

[Peter Mugridge]

This has come up previously that there's unfortunately not a lot of interest.... but the older ones... a few of those just might interest some specialist vintage dealers. Might be worth asking people like Rusty Baines Collectables?

 

[etr221]

My thought is that perhaps the best thing is to donate to them to your nearest preserved railway (or did he have a favourite?) - while they vary, most have some sort of sales operation, able to make the best of them.

 

[yorksrob]

I'd be interested in the 20th century Modern Railways editions - however it would depend on where you are, for the practicalities of picking up

 

[Kubes]

I could be interested in the Backtrack volumes again depending on location.

 

[Islineclear3_1]

I would be interested in No. 16 TI Then & Now 1973 - 1977

But again, depends on your location for the practicalities of picking up

 

[alistairlees]

Yes depending where located then I would be interested in at least some of these. Please do get in touch.

 

[Kubes]

If the OP is viewing this it would be nice to have an update. I had a decent cash offer in mind for the Backtrack bound volumes and my only concern is collection but Im happy to travel within reason.

 

[mole125]

Hi, sorry for the lack of reply.
I'm please to say we managed to rehome them all with Friends of Network South East https://nsefriends.org/ which is great as it means that we managed to keep the collection together and preserved.