Forgotten Steam

Photographs by Nick Nicholson, compiled by Ron White (hardback, Transport Treasure Publishing, 80pp, £16.50, ISBN 9781913893118) WHILE the name Nick Nicholson may not be familiar to some readers, compiler Ron White – the founder and previous owner of the picture library Colour Rail – is better known.

Now aged in his 90s (and claiming a new lease of life), Ron calls this

compilation ‘curious’, and he’s probably right.

It is a terrific collection of colour images, mostly from 1957/58, with the reader taken on a fascinating journey around sheds (recalling those scenes readers of a certain age will remember) and along branch and secondary lines.

Ron’s varied choice of images covers a wide range of locomotive classes – including a County, a Y9, a ‘Dukedog’, an N15X and a K2 – which will certainly stir some memories and a wish for a time machine.

Reproduction and colour balance is very good indeed, and captions are straightforward. All in all, a nice little album with the bonus of a couple of bus pictures from the era. I suspect there may be more in the archives. WINDOW ON 1950S BR