My original non- Anglia collection now has a hundred pictrures and is becoming unwieldy.. Time for a new one.

Another collection of modern traction digital images from my local area.

On Thursday 29 January 2009 I went with three friends to sample 'The Great British Breakfast' on offer by NXEA in their restaurant cars. This feast of a breakfast is served 'at seat' and we had heard that the facility was to be withdrawn the following day. We caught the 09.00 from Liverpool Street to Norwich at Colchester (traction provided by 90012) and we certainly enjoyed a magnificent start to our day. By chance we timed our visit admirably because the chef of the day, John Smith, was completing his final shift ever and ours were the last four breakfasts that he prepared before finishing his career and retiring. They were superb, John, a testament to your skills. Thank you, enjoy your retirement. Here are a few photographs from the trip.

To complement my 'London Trains' scanned slides collection I am going to slowly assemble a collection of digital pictures of trains around the Greater London area. There is a fantastic variety of trains to go out for around the London area. Stay tuned for future uploads!

On Friday 12 December 2008 I was privileged to be allowed to attend a small ceremony at the Transys Clacton train facility. It marked the completion of a project to 'refresh' the entire fleet of Cross-Country Clas 170 dmus. The final two units were present in the depot with 170110 finished and about to be released into traffic later that day. My thanks are extended to Cross Country Trains, Transys Projects and Porterbrook Train Leasing for their hospitality on the day. The complimentary fish and chips were excellent!

After almost three weeks without any significant sunshine in Essex, a good forecast for Friday 19 September 2008 tempted me to do a longish daytrip to the Midlands. Having driven from Colchester to Cossington (near Sileby in Leicestershire) I was in no mood to chase about. So I stayed where I was and let the trains come to me. And a good variety there was, too, despite the stone traffic being at a low ebb because, presumably, of the onset of the recession. Here is a sample of what was on offer. For once the weather forecast was more-or-less spot on.

August 2008 and a day trip to Newport, South Wales, from my home in Essex. A rail fare of just over twenty pounds (using my senior railcard) represented outstanding value and what a variety of traction and liveries on view! Booked on-line with NatEx East Coast to get a 10% on-line booking discount for great gricing entertainment. On the day, First Great Western excelled themselves, too, modifying my ticket validity when trespassers on the line disrupted train services and disabled a booked connection. Here are a few pictures from the excursion.

The third collection of digital images from my local area.

The third part of my Anglia Scanned Slides collection.

In April 2008 I visited sunny Spain. I found a superb line close to where I was staying which was both scenic and with good traffic levels. Here are some of my photos from this trip.

Parts 1 and 2 now contain over a hundred slides. Time for a new one! The same theme - just non-Anglia train slides that I find interesting.

My original collection with this title has now reached 100 pictures and is becoming unwieldy. Time for a new one!

My original non anglia scanned slides gallery is getting unwieldy with over 110 scans included. This new gallery will continue the theme - just British modern traction pictures that I have taken outside my home area which I find interesting.

With 160 slides already uploaded into Part 1 it is time to make another gallery of East Anglian Slides. I will gradually add to this new gallery as time permits.

I am gradually building up some digital images of BR preserved steam. I will put them in this collection from time to time.

I just love trams! I love anything that runs on rails really. Here are a few such gems from my collection.

Some scanned slides taken in the Greater London area over the last twenty years or so.

I went to university in Canterbury during the mid 1960s and Kent has been one of my favourite counties ever since. Unfortunately it is not always easy to record interesting trains in the county and the choice of routes for anything which does run is bewildering! Here are a few scanned slides of trains in 'The Garden of England'.

Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands have interesting railway sytems which carry plenty of traffic. Here is a selection of slides from my travels around the countries.

My railway interest was spawned on steam as a lad when I lived in Yorkshire during the 1950s and 60s. These days I tend to avoid going out to photograph main line steam. I find the antics of the photographic 'Fangio mob' - chasing trains, trespassing and being generally idiotic very distasteful and embarrassing. I enjoy visiting steam preservation lines but I do wish they would keep their locomotives DIRTY! When I can afford to buy my own Tardis I want to go back into the 1950s. Taking my current photographic equipment and knowledge with me!

In October 2003 I had the chance visit India. It was not an exclusively railway trip but in the three weeks that I was in the country the opportunity arose to take a few pictures. Unlike in this country the local railwaymen are immensley proud of their railway - incidentally India's biggest employer - and they are only too pleased to show hospitality to Western visitors. Here is a selection of scanned slides.

Some scanned slides rom my travels up and down the British Isles in the search for interesting railway subjects to photograph.

My good friend Les Nixon always says that 'you take your best pictures within 20 miles of home'. It may be true where he lives up in the Peak District but I am not sure if what he says is true in East Anglia where I live. Here are a few scanned slides spanning the last 30 years or so from my home area. By the way, Les also says that if he lived where I have to live he would have packed up railway photography years ago!

I cut my photographic teeth in East Anglia during the late 1970s early 1980s. I had to use monochrome at first- I couldn't afford two cameras and black and white photography was cheaper - especially if you did your own processing.

My conventional photography covers the whole country but my recent entry into digital photography does not stretch quite so far. Here is a few images from outside East Anglia which I have taken in the past couple of years. I will add to the collection as I take more.

I get much of my railway entertainment these days in Europe where there is much of interest to photograph. Here is a collection of European images from my digital camera.

I have been taking railway pictures in Essex and East Anglia for thirty years. In late 2005 I graduated to digital imagery but it took me a long time to convert from my old Olympus outfit which I used before. Here is a selection of images from my digital camera.

Corsica is a wonderful island for railfans. Metre gauge trains in superb mountain and coastal scenery.

I took a trip to the west coast of the USA during 2000. Unfortunately Mr. Kodachrome succeeded in losing seven of my precious KR25 films - 900 exposures! I still had a few on Fuji film and here is a selection.

If you like railways you like France because it has wonderful scenery and a superb selection of trains to pursue. The country is blessed with significantly better weather than the UK. I particularly like the south, not the hustle and bustle of the Cote d'Azure, but in the Rhone Valley south of Lyon where you get all the climatic advantages of the Mediterranean without the hassel.

I get much of my railway entertainment abroad these days. The British scene has become so tame and predictable. Particularly sad is the decline of freight traffic in Great Britain. Quite how Germany gets so much traffic onto its railways defeats me! The torrent of freight which traverses the middle Rhine valley is unbelievable. Even at the weekend the freight just rumbles on. Go try it!