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Cumbrian Railway Photographer the William Nash Collection by Robinson & Forsythe
Cumbrian Railway Photographer the William Nash Collection by Kate Robinson & Robert Forsythe
Soft Cover
112 pages
Copyright 2002
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 3
Foreword by Peter Van Zeller 4
Introduction 5
Chapter OneRatty 7
Chapter TwoStandard Gauge in Cumbria 27
Chapter ThreeAfloat in Cumbria 65
Chapter FourThe Lure of the Fells 80
Chapter FiveA Biographical Excursion 95
Bibliography 112
ON THE BACK COVER:
William Nash (1909-1952) was a gifted individual born at St Bees in Cumbria. Between 1926 and 1952 he worked on the railway, starting out in a signal box at the time of the General Strike. His talents were recognised with promotion. In World War II he was assistant district controller at Rugby and by 1952 he was working in the London Midland Region headquarters planning Royal Train journeys. All this was cut short when he lost his life in the Harrow railway disaster of 8th October, 1952.
When only 14 years old, he started taking railway pictures. Outside the family circle, these remained unknown until 2000. Nash had, for one so young, a good eye for composition and a keen awareness of what would be a worthwhile subject. Furness Railway Baltic tanks, the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, Sentinel steam railcars on Jersey, the Ashover Light Railway, Midland Railway 'Spinners', new LMS 'Royal Scots' or Southern Railway 'King Arthurs' all fill his albums.
His youngest daughter Kate Robinson and transport historian Robert Forsythe have shared the task of presenting his material. This volume has been produced to coincide with a series of retrospective exhibitions being staged in Cumbria to mark the 50th anniversary of William Nash's death. It focuses on his material covering the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, standard gauge steam in Cumbria, along with his images of the railway-owned Lakeland steamers and a selection of Lake District landscapes. All the material was taken between 1923 and 1935 or thereabouts. Newly originated hand prints from the original negatives have been made for the book by Kate Robinson. A number of railway postcards from Nash's own boyhood collection are included, along with biographical detail.
Left: William Nash at about 13 or 14 years old, about the time when he started taking photographs. Nash's second camera survives. Obtained in the second half of the 1920s, it is a Zeiss Ikon 6 x 9 cms format camera. It would be used with roll film or glass plates; the former was favoured by Nash.
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