Locomotive Publishing Company

It was also notable as one of the first stock photo libraries, in this case specialising in railway images.

[2] They began as a photo library, trading between the increasing number of amateur photographers of railways and the growing interest of enthusiasts.

[4] It began at 9 South Place, Finsbury, moving within the year to 102 Charing Cross Road and in 1903 to their better known long-term address of 3 Amen Corner, London.

[5] Amen Corner is at the west end of Paternoster Row where it joins Ave Maria Lane, near St Paul's Cathedral.

[3][6] In 1956,[i] the company was sold to another publisher specialising in railways, Ian Allan, and relocated to Surrey.

After serving an apprenticeship at the GER's Stratford Works, he rose to a position of some seniority in the locomotive department.

[6] By 1900, he joined the Shell company and traveled throughout Europe, Turkey and Egypt as a consultant for oil fuels.

[6] In 1903 he was appointed Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, a post that he held until 1924.

In addition he authored a number of books on locomotive engineering and on railway history, some co-authored with A.C.W. Lowe.

A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he lived at Gosfield Hall, Halstead, Essex.

His extensive writing for the magazine was anonymous, although he is known to have written a long and notable series of articles on Great Eastern locomotives, published between 1901 and 1913.

He took a keen amateur interest in railways though and was an early member of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers.

Many of these photographers were amateurs, with a keen interest in both photography and their railway subject matter, but without the commercial focus to make a full-time career of it.