Peppercorn

Err...which way?

An Ivatt betwixt restoration

Goodness knows where and when I took this one. Southern mainline, though, with a BB or MN fast approaching with what looks may be Pullmans

...and not panicking....

Maybe, but you gain something else, a kind of mystery as the trains emerges from the fog. Shouldn't this photo be under creative, because it is. Nice shot Cliff

U1 at the Bluebell some time ago, probably prior to 2004, that is prior to my buying a digital camera. Just one step back and I might have got the whole loco in the shot or, at least, the photograph made more complete by the inclusion of the end of the coach to which the loco is coupled, which would have made the right hand end of the photo complete (in the aesthetic sense) Hopefully I'll learn...

One for the chairman... The LNER, last seen in Luton....

The last 0-6-0 I saw in 'active', every-day service. Quite a time ago, in autumn '84 near Hyderabad, Pakistan. Oil burner, looks like it had piston valves Cliff

A 4MT at Eastleigh shed in, I think, '66 or '67 Cliff

Hornby first radius curves?

Thanks Peter. That's not too far from me, so I think I'll make a return visit. Cliff

And, so, before we cross we'll look to the left - aha! all clear And then to the right... A station in the east midlands in the mid nineties. I can't remember where, but a mechanical services engineer and I had to go and look at the Midland Bank there as they were tarting them up at the time. Didn't get a chance to return as another consulting engineer got that job. Lucky them. Not. PS: Silly me, I've just realised that the train in the second photo is travelling away from the photographer (me)

A fine trio in Montreal, August 2008

A nice face... The next loco on looks a little familiar

Nice and useful photo, Matt

Whilst waiting for a train to pass by one day...

One of those classic scenes now so sadly passed away. Pity the photographer couldn't have got this one more tightly focussed. In my defence, I'd borrowed a camera from a friend for this trip and wasn't as familiar as I should have been. Somehow, though, although I knew I was looking at something was passing yet part of me thought it'd still be there for another visit. Somewhere in the Midlands, 65 or 66. Two versions, one cropped, the other not; couldn't decide which was better Cliff

Not sure if this can be considered creative, but I do remember trying to be, one filthy evening in 66 with, I think, 60111 on the front in a classic scene Cliff

There's a kind of deep sadness underlying the quiet

My word, Matt, how good is that? Thanks, Cliff

Lots of lines here Cliff

Mogul at Eastleigh. Very poor photo - sorry - but thought you might like to see it anyway. Cliff

Yup, you're right, it's a mikado. Got my con mixed with my mik Cliff

Consolidation in Calais, summer 66, taken from an adjacent train on my way to Grenoble. Obviously wishing I'd taken more... Scanned from a 15 x 10 cm photo itself from a Kodachrome slide (which is somewhere on these premises) Cliff

I don't think we've had a 455 EMU, so when I came across this photo thought I'd post it. I can't remember when I took it, but can see that it was at Hertford East, probably in the mid eighties. I remember the camera, though which was a really old Zenit that, I found, had a tendency to tear film apart. Not a great photo, but, I think interesting in the context of being "an everyday scene". I scanned this from a 15 x 10 cm BW print, if I come across the negative I may be able to squeeze out a better shot. Oh, and the motor car (is that the correct term?) too Cliff