Michael H.C. Baker

Irish railways since 1916. London: Ian Allan, 1972. 224pp.
Has a good index (a rarity for Ian Allan) and an attempt at a bibliography.

London to Brighton. Patrick Stephens. 232pp.
Reviewed Railway World, 1990, 51, 106

London Transport in the Blitz. London: Ian Allan, 2010. 144pp
The text has an autobiographical element and this is both a strength and a weakness. The author spent some time evacuated to Shropshire, but much time (including that inflicted by the V1 and V2 weapons) in the Croydon area where their presence made a big impression. Thus the experience of war is conveyed, but this experience would have been different in other parts of London. The photographs are well chosen, but buses tend to dominate.

Railways to the Coast: Britain's seaside lines past and present. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens. 1990. 192pp.
Delightfully autobiographical

Taking the train - a tribute to Britain's greatest railway photographers. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens. 1993. 176pp.
A very important source of biographical information about some of the most significant photographers of the railway scene in Great Britain and Ireland. The samples of their art appear to have been chosen with care by the author/photographer. The following are included: P.M. Alexander, Dr Ian C. Allen, W.J.V. Anderson. H.J. Ashman, E.D. Bruton, H.C. Casserley, C.R.L. Coles, S.T. Cowan, Derek Cross, M.W. Earley, F.R. Hebron, George F. Heiron, T.G. Hepburn, D.M.C. Hepburne-Scott, C.C.B. Herbert, John Kennedy, Rev A.H. Malan, Michael Mensing, O.J. Morris, Brian Morrison, Rex Murphy, David Murray, Ivo Peters, P. Ransome-Wallis, R.C. Riley, Peter Shoesmith, G.H. Soole, R.D. Stephen, H. Gordon Tidey, Eric Treacy, E.R. Wethersett, and P.B. Whitehouse.

2023-01-12