The author is a renowned specialist in steam railways and this is his second artwork book. To be expected, the steam train forms an important portion of this fine illustrated work, which also covers most other forms of transport to delight a wide range of readers – Most Highly Recommended.

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Firetrench

A well known railway artist offers a compilation of many paintings that will appeal to many readers. Eric Bottomley is a master of the much overlooked art of illustration and the best are superb. You can almost smell the coal smoke in my favourite depiction of a Dukedog beside the River Dee. They aren’t all railway scenes: there is a cracking view of Bristol trams plus others of vintage cars and aircraft.
Ideal for the engineer’s Christmas stocking, or perhaps his pillow case.

Society of Model and Experimental Engineers

This book covers a wide variety of forms of transport, although it features predominantly railway related subjects. The author also includes some interesting details about the materials he uses and the process of producing the finished picture. It provides a very comprehensive trip through a wide variety of locations, both British and overseas, and the paintings show an incredible amount of detail in the subject matter and its context in place and time.

Stephenson Locomotive Society

This nostalgic journey is beautifully illustrated and accompanied by notes from the artist.

Leisure Painter, January 2019

This is Eric Bottomley's second art book, in which he has varied both his transport themes and the mediums in which he works. The majority of paintings are in oils but also included are gouache, mixed media and pencil sketches.

All four regions of Britain’s railways are covered, mostly of the BR period from 1948 to the end of steam in 1968. There are some lovely Welsh scenes including Abercynon shed, Hindlip Hall at Gobowen, the Vale of Rheidol Railway (with No 3 Talybont), the Corris Railway, a 43xx near Barmouth, Llanfyllin Station, the Tanat Valley, Bala Station, the Talyllyn in the snow and my personal favourite and the star of your Christmas Newsletter cover, Talybont on Usk in the snow).

Further afield you’ll find scenes on the Trans-Siberian Express in Moscow, The
Golfers Express leaving Belfast and preserved diesels in the USA. The demise of steam and the dereliction to be found on canals in the 1960's, provided Eric with an enormous scope of subject matter, much of which is captured in this delightful book.

Welsh Railways Research Circle No.157