About the Author

Fred Kerr is a photographer whose lifelong interest in railways began in Edinburgh during the early 1950s and continued with the addition of industrial workings when his parents moved to Northamptonshire in 1956. His interest in photographing railways began in the 1970s and enabled him to begin recording the rail scene to complement his diaries of locomotive sightings recorded from 1963.

Now retired, Fred continues with photography and has begun sorting his extensive photography collection to create a series of ‘potted’ histories with this, a review of the Class 73 and Class 74 electro-diesels, being his latest offering.