Driver's eye view from the turnback siding at Wembley Stadium. 26th May 2004.
Wembley Depot under construction, seen from the rear of an up train. 13th February 2005.
The wash plant at Wembley Depot.
Tyseley Junction, seen from the road overbridge. 10th August 2002.
The depot headshunts at Aylesbury. 23rd March 2004.
Amersham seen early on a dismal morning from the "34 road" turnback siding. 27th March 2004.
Looking towards the junction at Sandilands on the Croydon Tramlink where the network leaves the former railway alignment and commences street running. 25th January 2006.
Waiting for Neasden Junction. 15th September 2005.
The entrance to Tyseley Depot. (Picture courtesy of Greg Scott).
Multiple logos on 150133. On top of the original North Western Trains livery is First North Western branding, covered by a Northern Rail logo. At this time the unit was on loan to Silverlink and their logo has been added too.
Looking through the spy hole into the saloon of 165039. 9th January 2004.
A feature of virtually every class 165/0 cab is a 2p coin jammed into the hole that once accommodated the speaker for the ATP siren.
A slightly strange railway themed sculpture in Manchester.
My childhood garden railway - sadly long gone.
Hymec and wagon on my former garden railway (O gauge).
Stopped at a red. The driver of 47845 returns to his cab after talking to the signalman. Appleford, 12th June 1994.
Bristol Parkway on 10th April 1993. I just liked the use of English.
Poster at Wendover. 28/09/02
A photograph of Brno which I (perhaps unwisely) removed from a Czechoslovakian Railways coach.
Comparison between BR standard green and BR DMU malachite green.
The torched driving wheels from 6023 "King Edward II" on display at Didcot.
Donald Wilson, Marylebone's former Station Master in his other role as DMU driver on the West Somerset Railway. 8th April 2003.
Gerrards Cross Tunnel abandoned and unfinished. The gap is the section that collapsed in 2005. 13th September 2006.
Poem scrawled onto one of the waiting shelters at Hatton. 14th July 2006.
Part of the badly deteriorated GWR mural near Snow Hill station, Birmingham. 24th July 2006.
Another section of the GWR mural. 24th July 2006.
Franchise changeover. Staff applying a white vinyl strip over the red band on a set of GNER mark 4 coaches. 1st December 2007.
A skip full of class 86 bits. Long Marston. 6th June 2009.
Bicester North in the mirror. 20th May 1994.
37s reflected in a DOO mirror at Didcot. 12th June 1994.
Looking along the Moorswater branch from the level crossing just short of the terminus. 26th August 2006.
Sometimes it's nice to turn the camera on the crowd. Enthusiasts photograph "Leander" at Marylebone on 2nd April 2006.
A photographer capturing 37799 passing through Didcot. 15th October 1993.
47478 comes under scrutiny at Birmingham New Street in 1988.
Olympic bid branding on the side of a GNER HST. 12th March 2005.
A truly magnficent example of hard-hitting satire by the NUR.
Driving wheel pattern for a GWR locomotive.
Stagecoach Island Line logo on a rusty class 483 unit.
I'm not really a bus enthusiast, but in the knowledge that time was running out for the Routemasters I took this picture outside Paddington on 6th October 2003.
"Off to bed now". Unusual destination display on a Voyager at Paddington on 27th March 2003.
Cattle class conditions? A derelict compartment in a mark 1 coach.
Conductor rail insulators beyond the buffer stops at Princes Risborough. They once supported wooden replica conductor rails and were used for training drivers how to walk across and apply a short circuiting bar to London Underground tracks.
Dodgy Railway Pub Signs #1: A fine example of the pub sign painter's art. Note the out-of-gauge wheels, split-level buffers, multiple fireboxes and steam coming out of the wheels. (The Great Western, Aynho, Oxon).
Dodgy Railway Pub Signs #2: Another dire sign. Even the sleepers look wrong. (The Railway, Ryde, IOW).
Dodgy Railway Pub Signs #3: The Station Hotel, Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire. On the former LNWR Oxford - Cambridge line. In GWR days, apparently.
Dodgy Railway Pub Signs #4: The Belle Vue, High Wycombe on the GW & GC joint line. So, what sort of locomotive to illustrate? Something Great Central, Great Western perhaps? LNER would do. British Rail? Chiltern Railways? No, We'll go for the LMS - the obvious choice. And let's make it an awful representation too: impossible connecting rods, merged tender & coach and track that looks like something from a migraine. Simply dreadful.
The exit from Radley station with a sign prohibiting access. NSE must have been desperate to hold onto their passengers. 28th June 1994.
The result of a 100mph collision between a bird and a class 168 unit. The unfortunate creature has become embedded in the unit's fibreglass front.
A pigeon wedged in the skirt of a class 165 unit after a 75mph collision.
Insect graveyard. The front of a 165 after just a few Aylesbury - Amersham shuttles.
Vignette, 37 at Hengoed.
Vignette, class 108.
Vignette, 47212 at Aylesbury.
Vignette, Tralee & Dingle.
British Railways lion & wheel emblem on D8000.
Schedule card from my first solo turn as a driver.
My first introduction to train driving. 1971.
Me, in front of a class 40 and a Western at Swindon Works during an open day sometime in the mid to late 1970s. Photo - P.G. Marks.
My official Chiltern Railways mug shot that appeared on posters and that sort of thing when I was a Station Manager.
A picture of me, about to leave Marylebone on 168003. 13th October 2004.
Self portrait, Wembley.
