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 35,300 pictures to view or buy.

STOP PRESS (21st June 2014)

It's been a busy year with a diverse range of commissions, 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 2,900 shots from 2014 have been added to date.

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 set up new galleries for many of them. I'll continue stocking these and adding other galleries as time permits.

Background

I've 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. In May I added a whole new selection from India and Thailand.

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.