A selection of my railway photos from the year 2007. More will be added to this collection as the year progresses.

A selection of my Railway photos from the year 2008. More will be added as the year progresses.

A selection of various Railway photos taken during 2009.

With the new High Speed link from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel now open, Belgium is as little as 1 hour 51 minutes away from London.

The SNCB network is rich on variety, the staff are very friendly and helpful and paranoia against enthusiasts is non existant.

Very much worth a visit I'd say.

Along with my work colleague and friend, Colin Fisher this was my first visit to see and photograph the German railway scene, and WHAT a baptism......Now totally hooked on the German scene, I now make visits at least once per month.

A collection of black and white scans taken in the 1980's and 1990's.

The majority of these were taken using the very popular Ilford XP2 film.

This collection will be added to from time to time.

Class 20 Locomotives this year celebrate their 50th birthday. Hard to believe then that the ever popular 'Choppers' have been around for so long.

20 Class 20's put on show at Barrow Hill over the weekend of 14 and 15/7/07.

The event was put on to commemorate the 50th birthday of this ever popular class and included 2 railtour round trips from BH to Hope Cement Works.

Arguably the worlds most successful Diesel train, still going strong up and down the land, over 30 years since the first ones appeared on the scene. GNER's Mallard refurbishment programme, along with MTU re-engining has brought their ones bang up to date. First Great Western have also carried out re-engining with MTU and have 'refurbished' some of their sets as well. With Grand Central having just commenced their services, the future looks very bright for these iconic trains.

The BRCW Class 33 locomotive, otherwise known as 'CROMPTONS' after their traction equipment.

Originally Southern Region loco's in later years these very versitile loco's were to be found working as far afield as Swansea and Holyhead.

Tractors, Growlers. Call them what you will, but another very successful British design.
There cannot be any line in the country that hasn't been visited at least once by a member of this now sadly depleted class.

140 ton tin snails 'Zontar' called them !!! Love or hate them, you have to say they have character.

The Class 44 loco's were originally named after various UK mountains and thus acquired the nickname of 'PEAKS'. The nickname was subsequently used for the later Class 45 and 46 loco's, with these loco's becoming collectively known as Peaks.

This collection features Class 47's on a large variety of non passenger workings from up and down the country.

These include a number of Cambridge Postal workings which I took on days when I was the booked Driver of the featured working.

The versatile Class 47 was to be seen on a large variety of passenger workings, both express, and secondary. They still can be seen to this day on charter work, but for how much longer ?

The Hoovers, as they became known, were the last build of express passenger diesel locomotive's to be built in Britain.

Class 60 locomotives, otherwise known as 'tugs' due to their huge haulage capabilities. Despite being less than 20 years old, over a third of the fleet are currently stored (October 2006).

Equally at home on either passenger or freight and on either diesel or third rail power, the 73 is truly a go anywhere, do anything loco.

The mainstay of the GNER fleet on the ECML, these loco's had mixed fortunes in their early days but have been much improved since the HGR rebuild earlier this decade.

On the weekend of 8/9th November 2008, NXEC ran for the first time some of their services via the 'Joint Line' through Spalding and Lincoln. This collection follows a journey via this route with train 1F22 the 1100 Kings Cross to Aberdeen on Sunday 9/11/08.

Some of the types of cabs that I've worked in, along with a few that I haven't.

More will be added in due course.

It is now more than a year since GNER dispensed with the services of the Class 373 Eurostar sets on the Whiterose services between Kings Cross and Leeds. Driving these trains was the highlight of my career thus far, culminating in me being chosen to drive the farewell special between Peterborough and Kensington Olympia. This collection pays tribute to the 'GNERstars' and my grateful thanks go to the various photographers who allowed me to use their material in this collection.
MickB.

A collection of Electric Locomotives from Class 76 to Class 87.

An album containing shots of Class 89 to Class 92 AC electric loco's

A selection of images from the EMRPS night shoots at the Nene Valley Railway on Saturday 23rd September 2006, Saturday 24th February 2007 and Saturday 23rd February 2008.

Top marks to Jason Cross and his helpers for all their efforts in organising these excellent events.

A new collection containing pictures from my trips into Europe in 2009.

More European images, this time from the second part of the year.

Images from a some of my trips to France. The SNCF network has a rich variety of both traction and locations. Shame about the security situation though, as there are a number of places that you may get challenged whilst taking pictures and it is well worth the effort of getting permission before taking your pictures, particularly at the Paris stations.

A selection of photos from my trips to Germany, a country rich in variety and easy to get to from the UK.

Many thanks due to Mr John Wraithmell for allowing me to show these 1960's Deltic shots on my site.
Thanks also go to his son Paul, a fellow GNER driver, for arranging this for me.

The ever popular DB BR218 'Rabbits' have been synonymous with the Lubeck area for a number of years now. With the winter 2008 timetable change, their regular passenger duties go over to electric traction. This collection shows 218's in action during their last weeks in passenger service along the Hamburg to Lubeck route in northern Germany.

The town of Lindau lies on the north shore of Lake Constantine in Southern Germany.

On the other side of the lake lies Switzerland and locomotives from both there, and also Austria can be seen at Lindau.

Whilst only on day trip, it yielded a remarkable crop of loco hauled passenger workings and a visit is well recommended.

A selection of mainline steam locomotive workings from both the present, and the past.

I have used some images in this collection which are credited to Colour-Rail, as they are taken from slides purchased from Colour-Rail. If the original photographers who took these images are not happy with my use of the images in this way, please do not hesitate to contact me and I will either credit them to YOU, or remove them altogether.

Ths collection will show a collection of DMU, DEMU and EMU trains, irrespective of age or type.

A collection of images from my trips to The Netherlands, which further images will be added to in the near future.

A new addition to my site. This collection features very recently uploaded images which will remain in this collection for a short period of time prior to being transferred to relevant collections within my site.

A record of my many journeys to the North Wales Coast, between 1995 to 2000, to sample the many Class 37 hauled passenger workings of that particular era.

During the Mid 1990's, the then Regional Railways introduced an hourly loco hauled service between Crewe and Bangor / Holyhead with some workings starting back at Birmingham New Street.

Stock consisted of Mk1 / Mk2 stock, mainly hauled by Class 37's and these Class 37 hauled workings feature in a companion collection titled North Wales Class 37 passenger workings 1999 to 2000 ( http://michael170.fotopic.net/c1555364.html ).

With the added attraction of regular ballast workings from the Penmaenmawr Quarry as well, 'The Coast' became something of a 'Photter' magnet.

Here is a selection of some of my pictures from that era.

A selection of some personal favourites from years gone by.

Whilst the quality of some is not 'A1' this is balanced I hope, by the historical value of these photos.

All photos in this collection were taken either by a Kodak Instamatic (pre August 1975) or by a Zenit E (Post August 1975).

A collection of images featuring close family members, railway colleagues and friends.

With very little these days to interest me on the Mainline, I am concentrating my UK efforts on preservation.

My favourite preserved railway. Running for 11 miles or so between Toddington and Cheltenham Racecourse, with the extension from Toddington to Broadway due to open in the not too distant future. The line boasts some stunning scenery, friendly staff and a number of BR Blue diesels, along with a good steam fleet as well.

My 'local' preserved railway. Has recently entered the 'Premier League' as far as Diesel Galas are concerned. Home to the superbly restored D306 ATLANTIC CONVEYOR and the first railway to regularly feature preserved 'Grid' haulage.

Well worth visiting one of their regular Diesel Galas, which feature frequent trains and motive power variety of both resident, and visiting loco's.

A selection of photos featuring a variety of preserved locomotives.

A guest selection of railway images from the late 1950's onwards. These images were taken buy NXEC Driver Tony Atkin, who retires in September after 50 years service.

My grateful thanks for allowing me to use them Tony.

This is a selection of photos that I took from the cab of 43062 on the 1255 Leeds to Kings Cross on 11/5/79.

Unfortunately, I was only able to take these few as my camera expired with shutter seizure on the approach to Bawtry.