H. C. Casserley

• Veterans of the track, Ian Allan, 1946 • Locomotive cavalcade, H. C. Casserley, 1952 • (ed.) Service suspended, Ian Allan, [1951] • (with Leslie Lewis Asher) Locomotives of British Railways, 4 vols, Dakers, 1955 • The Observer's Book of Railway Locomotives of Britain, 5 editions, F. Warne, 1955–1966 (and subsequent 'historic' reprints) • The historic locomotive pocketbook: from the ’Rocket’ to the end of steam, Batsford, 1960 • Steam locomotives of British Railways, 3 editions, Hamlyn, 1961–1973 (with assistance from Leslie Lewis Asher, based on the 1955 Dakers publication) • (with S. W. Johnston) Locomotives at the Grouping, 4 vols, Ian Allan, 1966 • 1: Southern Railway [1974 paperback edition] • 2: London & North Eastern Railway [1974 paperback edition] • 3: London Midland & Scottish Railway [1974 paperback edition] • 4: Great Western Railway [1974 paperback edition] • British locomotive names of the twentieth century, Rev. ed., Ian Allan, 1967 • Midland album, Ian Allan, 1967 • Britain's Joint Lines, Ian Allan, 1968 • Preserved locomotives, 5 editions, Ian Allan, 1968–1980 • (with C. C. Dorman) The Midlands, (Railway history in pictures series), David and Charles, 1969, • London and South Western locomotives (incorporating F. Burtt: LSWR Locomotives: a survey 1873–1922, published 1949) Ian Allan, 1971 • Railways between the wars, David and Charles, 1971, • H. C. Casserley (Famous railway photographers series), David and Charles, 1972, • Railways since 1939, David and Charles, 1972, • Outline of Irish railway history, David and Charles, 1974, • LMSR steam, 1923–1948, D. Bradford Barton, 1975, • Wessex (Railway history in pictures series), David and Charles, 1975, • The Lickey Incline (Locomotion papers, 91), Oakwood Press, 1976 • LMSR locomotives, 1923–1948 (three vols), D. Bradford Barton, 1976 • Recollections of the Southern between the wars, D. Bradford Barton, 1976, • LNER locomotives, 1923–1948, D. Bradford Barton, 1977, • LNER steam, 1923–1948, D. Bradford Barton, 1977, • Irish Railways in the heyday of steam, D. Bradford Barton, 1979, • (ed.) The later years of Metropolitan steam, D. Bradford Barton, [1979?], • Light railways of Britain: standard gauge and narrow gauge, D. Bradford Barton, 1979, • Scottish Railways in the heyday of steam, D. Bradford Barton, 1979, • Welsh railways in the heyday of steam, D. Bradford Barton, 1979,

Casserley's first camera was a Kodak No. 2 folding Brownie with f/8 Rapid rectilinear lens acquired in 1919, but this was soon replaced by a professional standard Butcher's 'Popular Pressman' quarter-plate reflex camera (using 4¼" x 3¼" glass plates). In 1937, he replaced it with a Leica 35 mm camera, which served him until the end of his career, being replaced with an identical model when the original was stolen in 1963. Despite a few experiments with early commercial colour film, he continued using black-and-white photography. His record-keeping of negatives used a numbering system he later shared with his son, and it is estimated that he had personally taken 60,000 railway subjects by 1972, in some fifty-two years of work. He began by recording locomotives, usually "on shed", i.e. at a locomotive depot rather than in service. He photographed in this manner because of the bulk of his camera and the slow film speeds. Later, he expanded his range to cover scenes in and around stations as his desire to travel over all railway lines in the British Isles took him to obscure corners of the railway system. There are many characteristic broadside shots of Southern Railway locomotives passing the family home in Bromley in the 1930s, but he generally strayed from railway photography, being strictly a "photographer of record". He largely stopped photographing railways with the end of steam traction on British Railways and Córas Iompair Éireann.