19427 photos in 342 sub-albums
This album contains a number of collections of images taken at various Standard Gauge Heritage Railways in the United Kingdom.
I'm a young at heart OAP with a liking for getting wet at heritage railway and bus events. I've been a rail and transport fan since I was a mere snotgobbler, and never really got over the ending of the steam era back in 1968, when those scumbags Marple and Beeching closed down my local railway line.
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19427 photos in 342 sub-albums
This album contains a number of collections of images taken at various Standard Gauge Heritage Railways in the United Kingdom.
537 photos in 19 sub-albums
This album contains a number of collections of images taken at various Narrow Gauge and Miniature Railways in the United Kingdom.
88 photos
The title of this gallery is a tongue-in-cheek comment about the attitudes of many of the railway magazines and some photographers too, who, if they are to believed, think that photographs can only be taken on sunny days when the sky is blue, there are no people around, and they must always be taken from the threequarter position with the Sun on the front and side of the loco and as close to the loco as possible. Well as someone who lives in East Lancashire, which is probably one of the wettest parts of the country, and it could be said has a default setting of 'grey, wet and miserable' for much of the year, I can safely say that if I only went out to take pictures in those sorts of sunny conditions I probably wouldn't get out of the house very often!:-)
Personally I like to take pictures in crappy weather, and I think that this can add a lot of atmosphere to your shots and produces images that look far less sterile than many sunny threequarter shots which have very little context in them. I actually don't mind having people in my shots as I think drivers, firemen and members of the station staff, are as much a part of the railway as the locos are, and should be recorded as well, since this is also a part of our social history and may be something that is of interest to future generations. But then again I'm not a magazine photographer I'm a documentary photographer, so I can happily continue to take the pictures in any way that I like, and I will continue to ignore all those narrow minded 'control freaks' who tell me that all photographs are 'wrong' unless you do them in the boring sunny way (i.e. 'their way'). I don't mind at all how other people choose to take their pictures, that is their business, and as this is a hobby it's only right that we should do whatever we enjoy, but I do get annoyed when they start to try and tell me that I'm doing it all wrong, after all, I've only been doing it for 50 years, and was probably taking sunny threequarter shots before many of them were even born! :-) This gallery is a collection of images that I have taken in weather that definitely isn't warm and sunny, and is intended to show that these types of picture do have their place as well, even if many other photographers probably wouldn't agree with me.
761 photos in 140 sub-albums
This gallery contains images of some of the various railtours I've seen and photographed.
135 photos in 9 sub-albums
This gallery contains images of various mainline freight locomtives I've seen in action.
735 photos in 13 sub-albums
This gallery contains images of various mainline passenger locomotives.
19 photos
I just realised that I hadn't made a gallery for Track Maintenance vehicles, and I do have quite a few shots of those. I will move them here when I can find the time to track them all down.
233 photos in 15 sub-albums
This gallery contains images of various events and visits to the National Railway Museum in York.
181 photos in 2 sub-albums
In this gallery you will find a number of albums devoted to the final days of mainline trains running on the Oldham Loop Line in Greater Manchester in 2009. The line has since been converted into a Light Rail and work was finally completed in February 2014, Metrolink Trams now run services around there.
178 photos in 20 sub-albums