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Born in Northern Ireland where I spent my first 50 years, I have been a railway enthusiast since 1968, although I only started serious photography in late 1970 with the purchase of my first 35mm camera. However, I found the image quality on 35mm was not great so changed to medium format black & white in mid-1975 with the purchase of a Mamiya C220. Why black & white? It was cheap and I could save money by doing my own processing.

In July 1980, I bought my first Mamiya M645 which became the first in a long procession of 645s. I switched to digital in 2011, reinvigorating my photography and stopping me from jumping-off the nearest bridge.

I moved to western Scotland in 2003. Sadly, Oban proved to be remote, wet and generally miserable with nothing but 156s and almost ended my interest in railways. Add the rise of Scottish nationalism with their divisive and very nasty independence referendum and Scotland was simply getting too much like Northern Ireland, albeit without the guns and bombs. So, in 2016, we sold-up for what we could get and decamped to Carlisle, before “wee Nippy” could engineer sufficient grievances to justify another referendum.

Now I’m in Carlisle, with more trains than I know what to do with! Hog Heaven – and hopefully the next move will be to the old folks home or the great steam shed in the sky. And, with luck, I will get a few photographs taken before that happens.

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