Title (Welsh): Damwain trên Post Gwyddelig ym Mhenmaenmawr, 27 Awst 1950
National Library of Wales catalogue number: vtls003370745
Author: Charles, Geoff, 1909-2002
Date: August 27, 1950
Abstract: Images of the Irish Mail train crash at Penmaenmawr when a Holyhead-London night sleeper train hit a light engine left on the main line outside Penmaenmawr Quarry sidings, in which five people were killed and many injured, showing the damaged train and wreckage and cleaning work being carried out by a gang of workers and breakdown crane.
Part of: Casgliad Geoff Charles Collection,
Charles, Geoff, 1909-2002.
Notes:
Title assigned by cataloguer.
Notes (reproduction):
Computer file. Aberystwyth : National Library of Wales, 2000-2002 (Geoff Charles digitisation project) Original, master file captured in uncompressed TIFF format. Minimal tonal adjustments using levels and curves in PhotoShop. Master files archived as pc format TIFFS. On-screen display files resized and adjusted for viewing on gamma 2.2 monitors in PhotoShop and saved in JPEG format. 8 image files; Heidelberg Nexscan F4100 capture device using Linocolor v6.0.4 software. Filter settings: light contour-0.5, dark countour-0.5, smoothnes-0.6, countour width-1.0, scan spot size-4.0. Target resolution for hi-res capture was 300dpi at a factor of 450% resulting in +/- 6000 x 5000 pixels; screen res:+/- 600 x 500 pixels at 72dpi; screen-res and thumbnail copies use jpeg compression at setting: 7 in Adobe Photoshop v6.0; 8 bit grayscale; hi-res TIFFs: Gray Gamma 1.8 icc profile embedded.
Notes (action):
2002 ; scanned. Reprographic Unit, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion ; capture device operator : Kate Harper.
