A TRIBUTE TO PETER BAWCUTT

PETER BAWCUTT passed away in 2001 or thereabouts, and were it not for the late Terry Martin, DHR activist and author of The Iron Sherpa, we would have known nothing about Peter and his love for the railways of the Indian subcontinent. Terry wrote: "The hymn All things bright and beautiful ... could be heard resounding with great gusto outside the village church of Herne in Kent. Indeed, there could not have been more appropriate words for the family and friends to sing, for they had come together to pay their last respects to Peter Bawcutt.
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"I had first known of Peter when I was a schoolboy, for I would spend hours journeying across the pages of my atlas, travelling on the railways captured by his incomparable photographs that took me far across the shifting sands of the Middle East to my ultimate goal, India. . . " Read the full text of Terry's piece on this page from the Summer 2001 issue of the Indian Steam Railway Society Newsletter:
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http://www.indiansteamrailwaysociety.in/isrs6.html
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A selection of Peter Bawcutt's pictures of the railways in India are now available, and can be seen by clicking on the thumbnails on the following page:
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http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10446592
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Is there anyone in Herne or elsewhere who could tell us more about Peter, his work, and his passion for the railways of India ?