Introduction
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I've been photographing railways since the early 90's using Canon gear. As privatisation took hold in the mid to late 90's I lost my interest and sadly during a house move I inadvertently disposed of all my photo's and negatives among which were some real gems.

I rekindled my interest again in April 2004 and was amazed at the changes! The demise of the Class 47 on most passenger and freight work and was even more surprised to learn of the demise of the Class 56, even more so at the demise of the Class 58.

The hobby is very different to the one of 10 years ago, the postal trains have all but disappeared along with the 47 hauled Intercity XC services that were once taken for granted, now in the hands of Virgin Voyagers. As for the 'GM invasion' its very sad that a country once at the forefront of locomotive design and build now buys locomotives built in Canada and Spain from an American company.

Apart from the 35mm scans all digital images were taken using a Canon Canon EOS 20D and newer ones using either a Canon EOS 40D or Canon EOS 1D MkII with a combination of Canon lenses.

I hope you take the time to look through some of my photo's and I hope you enjoy, if you have any comments, suggestions or feed back please hit the contact tab on the menu. It is a work in progress and hopefully will expand as the weather permits.

All images are available in high res format for commercial use and I can also provide prints from 6X4 up to A3+ size for personal use.

Thanks for visiting.

Matt Clarke