Taking railway photographs and capturing an age of impressive locomotives and atmospheric stations is a pastime that the age of steam passed down through genera

Photographs portraying the nostalgic, gritty years of the 1970s and early 1980s on Britain's railways

Steam on the Southern and Western is a personal record of railway views that were captured on black and white film in the late 1950s and 1960s, until the demise

Avid train-spotter Andy Sparks' collection of photographs shows how thoroughly stations, track, motive power and working practices have been modernised.

The British Rail corporate image and its Rail Blue livery was one of the longest-lived colour schemes carried by the trains of Britain in the forty-eight-year l