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Great Railway Photographs by Eric Treacy British Isles Dust Jacket 1982 216 pgs
Great Railway Photographs by Eric Treacy British Isles by Freeman Allen
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1982, reprinted 1988
216 pages
CONTENTS
Foreword7
Introduction 11
Scots on Merseyside23
A Parade of Patriots32
The Streamliner years35
The `Cross' in the Fifties40
The Route of the `Irish Mail'49
The `Long Drag's' express power54
The `Merseyside', the 5.25, and the `Turbo'69
Western Interlude 87
Central to Westgate102
Lines from Leeds City114
Caught on the Curve - York to Newcastle130
The Southern at home and away143
Over the Fells to Penrith157
Roads to the Isles 177
Pennine Prospects 182
Edinburgh and the `Elizabethan'188
The Charisma of Carlisle197
Beattock and the Upper Clyde Valley204
This volume contains some of the finest photographs of railway subjects in the British Isles; they came from the cameras of one man, Bishop Eric Treacy, a doyen among railway photographers. Unlike most railway enthusiasts Treacy was a photographer first. There is no doubt that the smoke, steam, light and shade, so much part of the railway, as well as steam locomotives of all shapes and sizes, tempted him and in the event he came as near as any man to capturing these scenes through the lens of a camera.
During his lifetime Eric Treacy made many friends; this book is a tribute by three of them. Over the years it was natural that so eminent a photographer should have his work well published; this book contains some 300 of his best photographs ranging from Southern England to Scotland and from mighty Pacific locomotives to the dirty unloved goods train. It is not generally realised that Eric Treacy ventured into the realms of colour photography and 24 pages in colour testify to his skill in this medium, blending with the black and white reproductions.
As a man of the Church his parishes embraced railway stations and locomotive depots, nowhere more so than on Merseyside where he became very much an accepted part of the Edge Hill scene in the late 1930s both as a vicar and photographer. Even during his ultimate Church appointment as Bishop of Wakefield he found a little time to relax behind his camera, though now pointing at diesels and electric as well as preserved steam locomotives.
Great Railway Photographs is not just another good book of railway pictures, it is a classic that will be treasured by railway buffs for years to come.
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