General Surveys - Pictorials
EARNSHAW, Alan & JENKINSON, David
The Last Years of the Big Four
Account of the Big Four companies during their last decade with chapters on each company 'pre-war' and 'at war', followed by a survey of their locomotives and rolling stock. The authoritative text is supported by photographs throughout including colour.
ELLIS, C. Hamilton
The Splendour of Steam
Ellis' fine drawings, inclduing 16 colour plates, with accompanying narrative chapters. The subjects are mainly British pre-grouping locomotives, although about on third of the book covers continental European countries in the same period.
ELLIS, C. Hamilton (ed.)
British Trains of Yesteryear - A pictorial recollection of the pre-1923 railway scene
Collection of fine pre-grouping photographs from across the country, first produced in 1960 and reprinted several times thereafter.
ESAU, Mike
John Ashman FRPS - Rail Portfolio
Very fine photographs taken from the late 1920s to the early diesels, well presented with many full page and double page images. The locations and subjects are largely GWR and Western Region, although other regions and industrial are featured.
ESAU, Mike
Thanks for the Memory / Memories are made of this / The Memory Lingers On - British Railways Working Steam
[Volumes One to Three]
Collection of the authors fine photographs taken around Britain during the 1950s and 1960s, produced in three volumes.
ESAU, Mike
Steam's Last Stand - A 40th anniversary tribute to the end of British Railways steam
ESAU, Mike (ed.)
John Spencer Gilks - Journeys Around Britain / The Nostalgia of Steam
Classic Steam
Fine images, with detailed captions, taken by Gilks across the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. Coverage includes branches, stations, viaducts, tunnels and signalling. The fourth of a series of Silver Link albums, search under 'Classic Steam' for other titles.
F. Moore
British Expresses 1898
Xmas Number of the "Locomotive Magazine"
December 1898 photographic supplement to the Locomotive Magazine, illustrating fifteen pre-grouping express trains. Full-page monochrome photographs with advertisements to end papers.
Fenman
Images of Steam
Collection of steam photographs from across the country taken in the late 1950s and 1960s. 'Fenman' is a pseudonym for five photographers, including John, Boyd, John Coiley, Stephen Crook and David Hepburne-Scott.