Romance of Steam

Kevin fell in love with Steam Railways after hearing Reginald Gardner’s wonderful audio recording entitled TRAINS. (hear it by selecting “Duchess in Defiance” from exhibition page). It was played on Children’s Favourites on Saturday mornings during his childhood in the 1960s. What he heard was Reginald mimicking what he would describe as “a living railway”, Kevin later went to see these living things at Saltley Engine Sheds in East Birmingham with a school friend after school whose father was an engine driver.
He noticed how looking at a steam locomotive fully in steam was like a living thing. The 5 elements of the earth were on show captured in a magnificent piece of man made mechanical engineering. In other words earth, fire, air, water and space, in a setting of Light, Darkness and Spirit
These 5 elements Kevin tries to capture in his compositions below.
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SOME WERE COMMISSIONED PIECES.
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