Living life in the past lane

This issue’s 10 Pictures comes from railfreight follower and photographer Paul Shannon. Having spent his early childhood in Gloucestershire, Paul lived on the outskirts of Manchester from 1963 until 1

Railway photography for me is about two things: a record for capturing a point in time to preserve a memory and an art form to create a great-looking image. Sometimes for me that is to recreate an ess

ABOVE: The 1990s were a colourful time with the last of the Trainload liveries, the shadow freight colour schemes and the new privatised company liveries. On January 23, 1996, Loadhaul 37517 leads Tra

After a chance encounter with a laser-cut depot kit, Paul Gosden set about building a fictional contemporary engineering facility, where green technology is embraced.

The Greatest Gathering at Derby on August 1-3 brings together a host of exhibits from the railway over the last 200 years, but there are more than 100 modern traction locos and multiple units alone, a

I do love the weather as hot as it’s been throughout most of July, but it does have one major drawback; I end up sleeping with the window open, which means I have the blind up a fraction, which in tur