PATTERNS OF STEAM captures the last glorious years of steam on the railways of Australia and New Zealand, the period in the 1960s and early 1970s when steam locomotives were in decline, but were still operating, though in diminishing numbers, much as they had for generations. The photographs continue up to 1985 to provide a glimpse of Australia’s remaining industrial steam and the revival of preserved steam locomotives in tourist service. You can preview some of the photographs by clicking here.

PATTERNS OF STEAM is a beautifully presented hard cover book of 208 pages, 300mm square, which contains 350 evocative black-and-white photographs. The book has been printed in duotone on heavy art paper to retain on the printed page the drama and subtlety of Shane McCarthy’s original photographs. It is a private publication of 2200 copies, intended for lovers of railways (including railway history) and fine art photography, who will be fascinated by the diversity of the photographs and the connections between them.

The publication of PATTERNS OF STEAM offers you the opportunity to obtain a magnificent and critically acclaimed book, encapsulating a railway era now gone forever, photographed and designed wholly by the author and printed and bound to the highest standards.

PATTERNS OF STEAM – A BOOK TO TREASURE

PATTERNS OF STEAM was published in April 2007 and is available both direct from the author and in selected bookshops. Send email enquiries, or requests for an emailed order form or brochure about the book, to Shane McCarthy.

TO ORDER YOUR COPY, please complete and post the ORDER FORM to the address on the form, either with your credit card details completed or together with your cheque or money order in Australian dollars, payable to Shane McCarthy, Orders to be delivered by post are fulfilled by posting the book or books ordered to the address stated. Books paid for by cheque will be posted once the cheque is cleared

Members of the following Australian societies - Association of Railway Enthusiasts, Australian Railway Historical Society (any Division), New South Wales Rail Transport Museum or Steamrail (Vic.) - who provide their membership number (where one is issued) on the form may order one copy only at A$95.00. Other copies (no one-copy limit) may be ordered at A$125.00 per copy.

Patterns of Steam © Shane McCarthy 2007