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Locomotive Publishing Company
The Locomotive Publishing Company was an English publishing house, specialising in railway topics. It was noted for publishing Locomotive Magazine, amongst many other highly regarded titles. It was also notable as one of the first stock photo libraries, in this case specialising in railway images.
The company was preceded in the final years of the 19th century by 'F. Moore', a railway artist and photographer who published Moore's Monthly Magazine, the first widely popular railway magazine. In actuality, 'F. Moore' was the pseudonymous pen-name for two brothers, A.R. Bell and A. Morton Bell, both apprentices at the Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Railway.
They began as a photo library, trading between the increasing number of amateur photographers of railways and the growing interest of enthusiasts. A third brother, Walter John Bell, and another apprentice, A.C.W. Lowe, became involved from 1896 with the launch of Moore's Monthly Magazine. From the 13th issue in January 1897, this was renamed as The Locomotive Magazine.
The Locomotive Publishing Company Limited was established in 1899. It began at 9 South Place, Finsbury, moving within the year to 102 Charing Cross Road and in 1903 to their better known long-term address of 3 Amen Corner, London. Amen Corner is at the west end of Paternoster Row where it joins Ave Maria Lane, near St Paul's Cathedral. Paternoster Row was long associated with the publishing trade in London. This building had been built as a residence in the 17th century, during the great rebuilding of the area after the 1666 Great Fire. After being bombed out during the London Blitz of 1940, they moved to Horseferry Road.
In 1956, the company was sold to another publisher specialising in railways, Ian Allan, and relocated to Surrey. This sale had been precipitated by the death duties owing after the death of one of the three partners, W.G. Tilling.
In 1992 the archive, together with its associated rights, was acquired by the National Railway Museum, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
One of the two founding brothers, and editor of the Locomotive Magazine. Of the brothers, he was the one who dedicated most of his career to the publishing company. "A man of huge girth with a mass of white hair".
Although one of the initial two brothers behind the publishing company, he focused on his engineering career. After serving an apprenticeship at the GER's Stratford Works, he rose to a position of some seniority in the locomotive department. He was involved in the trials of Holden's oil-burning locomotives and this work on oil firing would be a theme for the rest of his career, around the world; at the Kursk, Kharkov and Sevastopol Railway, the Austrian State Railways, the railways of Sicily, and, in the United States, on the Pennsylvania, the California Southern, and the Los Angeles Terminal. In 1897 he was appointed the first manager of the GER's new wagon shops at Temple Mills. By 1900, he joined the Shell company and traveled throughout Europe, Turkey and Egypt as a consultant for oil fuels. In 1903 he was appointed Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, a post that he held until 1924. For his war work during World War I, when Stratford Works was employed on munitions work, he was awarded the OBE.[clarification needed]
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Locomotive Publishing Company
The Locomotive Publishing Company was an English publishing house, specialising in railway topics. It was noted for publishing Locomotive Magazine, amongst many other highly regarded titles. It was also notable as one of the first stock photo libraries, in this case specialising in railway images.
The company was preceded in the final years of the 19th century by 'F. Moore', a railway artist and photographer who published Moore's Monthly Magazine, the first widely popular railway magazine. In actuality, 'F. Moore' was the pseudonymous pen-name for two brothers, A.R. Bell and A. Morton Bell, both apprentices at the Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Railway.
They began as a photo library, trading between the increasing number of amateur photographers of railways and the growing interest of enthusiasts. A third brother, Walter John Bell, and another apprentice, A.C.W. Lowe, became involved from 1896 with the launch of Moore's Monthly Magazine. From the 13th issue in January 1897, this was renamed as The Locomotive Magazine.
The Locomotive Publishing Company Limited was established in 1899. It began at 9 South Place, Finsbury, moving within the year to 102 Charing Cross Road and in 1903 to their better known long-term address of 3 Amen Corner, London. Amen Corner is at the west end of Paternoster Row where it joins Ave Maria Lane, near St Paul's Cathedral. Paternoster Row was long associated with the publishing trade in London. This building had been built as a residence in the 17th century, during the great rebuilding of the area after the 1666 Great Fire. After being bombed out during the London Blitz of 1940, they moved to Horseferry Road.
In 1956, the company was sold to another publisher specialising in railways, Ian Allan, and relocated to Surrey. This sale had been precipitated by the death duties owing after the death of one of the three partners, W.G. Tilling.
In 1992 the archive, together with its associated rights, was acquired by the National Railway Museum, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
One of the two founding brothers, and editor of the Locomotive Magazine. Of the brothers, he was the one who dedicated most of his career to the publishing company. "A man of huge girth with a mass of white hair".
Although one of the initial two brothers behind the publishing company, he focused on his engineering career. After serving an apprenticeship at the GER's Stratford Works, he rose to a position of some seniority in the locomotive department. He was involved in the trials of Holden's oil-burning locomotives and this work on oil firing would be a theme for the rest of his career, around the world; at the Kursk, Kharkov and Sevastopol Railway, the Austrian State Railways, the railways of Sicily, and, in the United States, on the Pennsylvania, the California Southern, and the Los Angeles Terminal. In 1897 he was appointed the first manager of the GER's new wagon shops at Temple Mills. By 1900, he joined the Shell company and traveled throughout Europe, Turkey and Egypt as a consultant for oil fuels. In 1903 he was appointed Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, a post that he held until 1924. For his war work during World War I, when Stratford Works was employed on munitions work, he was awarded the OBE.[clarification needed]
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