William Nash acquired his first camera at the age of 13. He was besotted by trains from his earliest years and they formed his favourite subjects. These factors came together in remarkable photographs taken by a teenager in the 1920s. In turn, there followed a successful career with the LMS before. William lost his life in the Harrow Railway Disaster on the 8th October, 1952. William’s pictures record the inter-war British railway scene, whilst his correspondence conducted in Esperanto with railwaymen across the world creates a poignant portrait of the gathering storm in the 1930s in which he took great interest. Between 1926 and 1952, he worked on the railway starting out in a signal box at the time of the General Strike. In World War II, he was Assistant District Controller at Rugby and around 1950 he was working in the London Midland Region headquarters planning Royal Train journeys. His railway pictures, outside the family circle, remained unknown until 2000. Great Western Dean Goods, the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, 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 new volume looks at the wider spread of Nash’s pictorial material around Britain, and examines his professional life as a career railwayman during which he was involved in some pioneering studies, including inter-war electrification proposals on the LMS. The book is presented in an A5 page size in landscape format, with 192 pages, printed on high quality ivory silk paper, and includes just over 190 photographs. It is perfect bound with a square-backed spine and a laminated colour cover (see also Cumbrian Railway Photographer , and The William Nash Collection page 19).