Hi folks,

Welcome to my website which contains a growing number of archive pictures and all the new stuff taken since the demise of Fotopic. Right now there's over 32,700 pictures to view or buy.

STOP PRESS (6th March 2014)

It's been a busy start to the year with a diverse range of commissions & a lot of night time work, so adding archive pictures has taken a bit of a back seat for now.I'm still adding them when I get chance, but the main focus has been on new images. Over 700 shots from 2014 have been added so far.

I've also been tinkering with the number of galleries to streamline the site by merging certain ones and creating others. The plan is to have individual galleries for each of the TOCs that have come and gone. To this end I've just set up the following new galleries: ONE, Virgin Cross Country, GNER, Silverlink and Central Trains. I'll continure stocking these and adding other galleries as time permits. I'm also disbanding the former yearly galleries, so 2004 & 2005 will disappear soon.

Background

I've finally completed replacing all the old low-res files with high-res ones.This has allowed me to sort out a few errors in the database & numbering system to remove duplicates and find one or two pictures that had got 'lost' in the files. There may still be one or two that have slipped through the net, so if you come across any, please let me know.

Now I'll be able to concentrate adding the huge digital foreign rail & travel archives and scan more sides.

Needless to say it's taking a huge amount of time as I try to balance this with my normal commercial work - and a home life!

I'm also whittling down the numbers of galleries to make stuff easier to find. This means there's a single monthly gallery that replaces all the old 'odds and sod's' galleries. Another change is that I'm no longer loading the archive stuff into yearly galleries. Instead pictures will be loaded straight into the relevant galleries such as the TOC or ‘signalling’, stations’ etc. This will save me a lot of work in the future and make the pictures easier to find as they’ll be grouped by subject. Eventually, all pictures will be tagged with keywords to make it possible to search for more groups and subjects. As I’m a one man band and this is time consuming – it will be a long way off yet!

The result of all this hard work is that the site will be bigger, better and the pictures will be loaded full size.

In the meantime I hope you continue to enjoy the site.