Book Launch: Railway Portraits Volume Six - Newcastle (City) Library
Friday 15 November 2024
8 days from now
10:30am - 12pm
1 hour 30 minutes
Join Robert and Bruce Wheatley for the launch of the latest volume in their book series, Railway Portraits.
As teenagers in the 1960s, Robert and Bruce were given the freedom by their parents to roam the NSW railway network by themselves. With packs on their back and pocket money for survival, they travelled on all manner of trains, slept in railway waiting rooms, rode with the guard on goods trains, and, when confidence grew, with the crew in the cab. The brothers carried a 35mm camera on their journeys, using it to capture candid photographs of the last days of the age of steam.
Following the outstanding success of their first volume of Railway Portraits in 2006, a series of four additional volumes have been published. The latest addition, Volume Six, contains further outstanding black-and-white images of railway operation in New South Wales in the last decade of steam. Their much-loved books are highly valued by railway staff, enthusiasts, modelers, and photographers.
Newcastle and the Hunter Valley was the last bastion of steam in New South Wales. Many of the brother’s photographs are from this region.
Come and join them over a cup of tea.
Copies of Railway Portraits: Volume Six will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Cost: Free
Bookings essential
If you have any access or inclusion needs, you will be able to advise us when booking.
Love the book? Check out the exhibition! Exhibition: Railway Portraits is on display in the Lovett Gallery until 22 March 2025.
As teenagers in the 1960s, Robert and Bruce were given the freedom by their parents to roam the NSW railway network by themselves. With packs on their back and pocket money for survival, they travelled on all manner of trains, slept in railway waiting rooms, rode with the guard on goods trains, and, when confidence grew, with the crew in the cab. The brothers carried a 35mm camera on their journeys, using it to capture candid photographs of the last days of the age of steam.
Following the outstanding success of their first volume of Railway Portraits in 2006, a series of four additional volumes have been published. The latest addition, Volume Six, contains further outstanding black-and-white images of railway operation in New South Wales in the last decade of steam. Their much-loved books are highly valued by railway staff, enthusiasts, modelers, and photographers.
Newcastle and the Hunter Valley was the last bastion of steam in New South Wales. Many of the brother’s photographs are from this region.
Come and join them over a cup of tea.
Copies of Railway Portraits: Volume Six will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Cost: Free
Bookings essential
If you have any access or inclusion needs, you will be able to advise us when booking.
Love the book? Check out the exhibition! Exhibition: Railway Portraits is on display in the Lovett Gallery until 22 March 2025.
