THE two authors spent a great deal of their teenage spare time in the period 1962-1971 recording the soon to vanish steam operations on British Railways. Then in 2013, the pair launched a plan to digitise the huge number of monochrome negatives they had captured back then.
Don’s health was already causing concern, however, as he was receiving ongoing treatment for blood cancer. Sadly Don passed away in April 2020, and the planned book to publish their superb railway images was left unfinished. So Alan subsequently made it his task to complete what they had both begun so many years before, and pay tribute to his friend’s photographic skills.