John Theodore Eardley Kenney (to give him his full name!) took up the job of illustrating the Railway Series after the departure of C Reginald Dalby.  Like his predecessor, he had studied at Leicester College of Art, but unlike him, he had an enthusiam for his work and the appreciation of his author into the bargain!  

 

Kenney was often to be found illustrating locomotives from life, in order to give greater validity in his pictures, in turn they were longer, bigger and more svelte in appearance.  They were also bolder and much more realistic than Dalby's pictures too, with his human characters contributing to that as well in their actions, with people running, pushing barrows, even smoking if you notice the first illustration within The Twin Engines.