Photographers & illustrators
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The bulk of railway photographers were content to concentrate on photography, but many also assembled collections of their own work (or as in the case of Fenman published as a group) and a few contributed to railway literature in general, some (notably Casserley on a substantial scale).

Alexander, Philip M.
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain: Practicing architect based in Chippenham. Pictures date back to 1920s. Took still pictures during making of The Titfield Thunderbolt.
Allen, Ian C.
Medical practitioner.Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Anderson, William (Bill) J.Verdun
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain: born Edinburgh on 28 March 1932. Educated at Rugby. Family paper mill business at Leslie in Fife. Marvellous pictures of Scottish trains. Died 23 September 1989.
Ashman, H. John
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Bruton, Eric Duncan
Autobiographical material (he was born in 1917 and died on 15 May 2002). His negatives are held at NRM.  Included in: Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain. Also an appreciation by Bob Essery in LMS Journal, (2), 26.
Budden, T.F.
Minnis, John. Dr T.F. Budden in Cambridge, 1889: steam locomotive studies from the dawn of snapshot photography. Br. Rly J., 1990, 4, 108-9.
Tice Budden acquired a Kodak camera which took 100 2½in diameter circular photographs and was then returned to the company for processing. Four of these early snaps are reproduced and show a Stirling 2-2-2 No. 229 on a service to King's Cross, a LNWR Special DX 0-6-0 No. 1742 on a train for Bletchley. and two GER Sinclair Class Y 2-4-0s Nos. 361 and 372. The short article also notes Budden's contribution to the photography of moving trains and the significance of T.F. Budden and R. Bucknall's Railway Memories (1947): Ottley 7866 which cites the authors in the reverse order and notes that 204 of Budden's photographs were included in the book published by the Authors. A fuirther illustration of GNR 2-4-0 No, 206 probably shows the photographer looking at the locomotive in Cambridge Station (information from Walter Bell of the Locomotive Publishing Co.)
Carrier, Frank
Frank Carrier was born in 1900 and died in 1952. Following military service in WW1 he joined the Midland Railway at Derby Works, and eventually worked in the locomotive drawing office. The picture of the Beyer Garratt with dynamometer car and passenger rolling stock demonstrates his priviledged position. His son Michael shown in photograph of Coronation died in 2006. Collection housed Kidderminster Railway Museum.
Postle, David  and Kidderminster Railway Museum. The Frank Carrier Photograph Collectlon. Rly Arch., 2009 (23) 25-34.
Casserley, Henry C.
Important record photographer both of locomotives and of branch lines. Much of his travel was by car (which features in many of his photographs). His wife also features in many of the earlier pictures, including many taken on their honeymoon, including ones taken in the Pullman observation car Maid of Morvern on the Oban line. . See: Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain. Much of his output was recorded both in articles and in books Tribute from R.C. Riley (Br. Rly. J., 1992, (40), 11.).
Locomotive cavalcade. Berkhamsted: Author, 1952. 216pp. col. front. 2 col. plates.
The fronispiece is based on eight colour/coloured photographs. One of the plates of a former HR Ben in LMS crimson must be a coloured photograph. The other may be an early colour photgraph, an SECR 4-4-0 taken in 1938, but is more probably hand-coloured. Each year between 1920 and 1951 is allocated a Chapter. All the photographs arre by the author. The MR 0-10-0 not suprisingly features.
Coles, C. R. Lewis
Joined Kodak in 1927. Admmitted to Railway Photographic Society in 1930s. .Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Coltas, Gordon
Explained his working methods in Br. Rly J. LMS Special Ed., 1988, p. 19 et seq
Cowan, S. T.
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Cross, Derek
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain. KPJ: Father (who supplied him with lineside permits) had a very high opinion of Derek Cross for his charm and courtesy.
Earley, M.W.
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Gifford, Colin
Excellent series in Steam World: see also letter from XXX
Hebron, F.R.
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Heiron, George F.
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Hepburn, T. Gordon
Born 11 February 1905. worked in coal trading in Nottingham. .Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Hepburne-Scott, D.M.C.
One of the Fenman group of photographers: public school teacher: sadly his death in June 1992 was due to being murdered. . Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
David Hepburne-Scott appreciation. Richard Ray. John Coiley. Steam Wld, 1992 (62) 34-8.
Obituary notice: subject was a superb photographer and physics teacher and housemaster at Westminster School. Portrait and illus. both colour and b&w. He was a perfectionist who demanded sunshine, and tended not to take pictures in winer. Neither writer nots that subject was murdered.
Herbert, C.C.B. [Cyril]
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain. Joined LNER in 1925: favoured the Leica..
Kennedy, John
Mainly recorded Irish railways and locomotives. Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Malan, A.H.
Recorder of the broad gauge on the GWR. See: Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Mensing, Michael
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Moore, F.
Morris, O.J.
Baker states that he was a devout Roman Catholic who specialised in photographing Southern locomotives. Lived in a state of chaos, and greatly assisted Ian Allan in starting his railway publishing business.
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
O.J. Morris's Southern Railways 1919-1959. Lawrence Marshall, Middleton. Reviewed Neil Parkhouse in Archive, 1997 (16).
Includes a six page introduction to this photographer's work, mainly in recording locomotives.
Morrison, Brian
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Murphy, Rex
Irish: recorded Cork area in 1920s and 30s. Work appeared in Rly Mag. IRRS. .Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Murray, David
Ireland: first photographs 1946. Active member IRRS. .Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Norton, D.J.
Born in Birmingham in 1930. Started photography in 1947. Married in 1959. Moved to Ledbury in 1963. Died in August 1965. See LMS J., 2008, 85th Anniversary Issue, 2 (page 7: see box for appreciation by his son).
Nunn, Ken (Kenneth Adrian Clement Roper)
Ken Nunn was born in Broadstairs on 3 September 1891, but his family moved to Brentwood. He was educated at St. John's School in Leatherhead and in 1910 joined the accounts section of the GER at Liverpool Street. He was badly gassed at the second battle of Mons and was invalided out in 1916. He took a long time to recover, but was eventually able to rejoin the GER and following the grouping moved to King's Cross. He married in 1931 and moved to Wembley. Before his retirement in 1952 he worked for George Dow at Marylebone in the PR Department. He took both official and his own photographs using a heavy reflex camera with glass plates. He was a great believer in recording his photographic work, and that of his brother Cyril D.E. Roper-Nunn. He used Cayenne as a pseudonym. He was active in most of the major railway societies and was a founder member of the Locomotive Club of Great Britain.
Pilcher, Percy William
Born in 1866. Many photographs taken from 1892 when he was a teacher at Shrewsbury School. See warm review by Michael Blakemore (Backtrack, 2008, 22, 638) of collection compiled by LNWR Society
Peters, Ivo
Best known for his photographic and cinematic studies of the Somerset & Dorset line. See Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain. Obituary by R.C. Riley in Br. Rly J., 1989, 3, (27) 352.
Pouteau, Ernest
Born in Alderney with name Pouteaux, but dropped the "x". Died 14 November 1932 aged 70.  Vendor of photogarphs ratther than a photographer
The Railway Photographs of E. Pouteau. Part 1. John Alsop. Rly Arch., 2004, (1) 26-46.
Biography of Pouteau and account of his postcard retailing operation, with lists. Railways South East The Album page 67 has photograph by "A. Pouteau of London & Blackwall Railway locomotive at North Greenwich. Pouteau's work was described by Kite in British Railways Journal, Number 52 page 110. In addition to the tabulated ilustrations there were reproductions of advertising material. Part 2 Issue 2 page 73
Ransome-Wallis, Patrick
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Riley, Richard C. [Dick]
Author of the section on photography in the Oxford Companion. Marvellous collection of colour photographs by him, taken earlier than by most, other than by Eric Bruton. Highly articulate: frequent writer of letters and contributor of short articles. Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Russell, Patrick. Steam in camera, 1898-1959. London: Ian Allan, 1972. 128pp.
Includes plates from his brother and photographs by Harold Hopwood and R.P. Angus Lewis. Portrait of Ken Nunn. Some of the photographs are exceedingly interesting: e.g. Stumpf Uniflow S2 4-6-0 on Heaton shed on 14 May 1920
Russell, Patrick. Steam in camera, 1898-1960. London: Ian Allan, 1981. 112pp.
Again some of the photographs are exceedingly interesting: on pp. 70-1 one has Llanelly & Myndd Mawr 0-6-0T Hudsweell Clarke 0-6-0T Merkland, Taff Vale Railway 0-6-0 No. 359, Brecon & Merthyr 0-6-0ST No. 8 and Cardiff Railway 0-6-0T No. 7 with a push & pull set. Neither book is indexed.
Shoesmith, Peter
Born in Cippenham, Bucks.in 1930. Mainly LMS/LMR in Midlands. Suffered a stroke in 1990..Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Soole, G.H.
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Stephen, Ranald D.
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain was unaware that Stephen had published autobiographical material about himself in books publshed by Bradford Barton
Stretton-Ward, H.J.
See Hendry, especially pp. 136-9 for this photographer's work in recording the Talyllyn Railway.
Tidey, H. Gordon
Wonderful photographs of old LNWR trains, but none included in Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain.KPJ's favourites are those taken of trains leaving Oxenholme on the climb to Grayrigg.  Born in 1879: from 1900 devoted one week per annum to railway photography..
Treacy, Eric
He was born in Willesden on 2 June 1907 and died on 13 May 1978 at Appleby station whilst photography a steam special. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's and excelled at sport, including boxing. He became a committed Christian following holidays in Norfolk. He worked for Toc H teaching boxing to boys from poverty-stricken backgrounds. He became an Anglican cleric who eventually became Bishop of Wakefield. Mainly interested in the scenic aspect of railway photography and David Jenkinson published several articles in Backtrack which sought to extend the captions for much of the best of Treacy's work which frequently suffers from a lack of this crucial information. Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain. Several compilations available. Being a bishop ensured an ODNB entry (by John A. Hargreaves). One of the best collections is The best of Eric Treacy. Nairn: David & Charles, 1994. (compiled by David St John Thomas and Patrick Whitehouse (who died before the work was completed and aided by John Edgington and David Johnson)).
Vincent, Roy E.
Staff photographer on the LNER/Eastern Region: took some magnificent photographs on the Great Eastern section, notably on Brentwood Bank. Not in Baker's Taking the strain. Early colour photograph taken in September 1948 reproduced in Steam World, 2006 (234) pp. 62-3.
Walker, Colin
See letters from his son, Martin Walker and John Massey in Steam World, 2006 (227) p. 28: former gives much personal information. Latter records his bibliography.
Walwyn, Gordon
Photographer of former North Staffordshire Railway area from 1920s: see Rly Arch., 2009 (25) 49.
Wethersett, E.R.
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
White, Ron
At last the man behind Colour-Rail has come to the surface with the appearance of a book under his name (LNER locomotives in colour). He has done more than anyone else to ensure the preservation of colour images from the early days of railway colour photography. His book contains a colour portrait of the wonderful chap.
Whitehouse, P.B.
Baker, Michael H.C. Taking the strain
Whitworth, W.H.
Photographer: sometimes difficult to find photographs of photographers: see Talbot's Illustrated history of LNWR engines Plate 375

2009-11-27