The Crisparmour Transport Archive is the grandiose name for a few boxes of accumulated junk in the loft, from a lifetime of being rather interested in [and for much of it, employed in] transport operations with a few fallow years here and there when other stuff got in the way. That stuff was, if anything, more important to me in all honesty but I will be concentrating here on my thousands of photos, timetables, maps and publicity leaflets going back through the years to my first dabblings in being a card-carrying transport enthusiast in the 1970s. And stuff from before that that I have picked up along the way.

The core content is hosted at crisparmour.co.uk, a web site with a less restrictive format than flickr. Posts here will link back to there where there will generally be more to read around the subject and further illustrations in many cases. The blog format of the web site itself is insufficient to give the best photos the space they really deserve to be properly appreciated and I am working on presenting cohesive themes in e-book format where pdf files can be run in "presentation" mode at full HD resolution to be enjoyed on a tablet, laptop, monitor or HD TV in full-screen mode.

This is all a work in progress and your feedback and support would be appreciated. This project is up and running and has been promoted on Facebook groups for a while where the feedback has been encouraging. In future I will post new content here as well as there. The subjects will be fairly wide-ranging and I hope that at least some of it will be of interest to many. Any extra information you can supply to any topic will always be welcome in the spirit of informing, educating and entertaining.

Welcome to the archive.

PS, a special note to Facebook hoovers, you know who you are. Instead of stealing the photos that people work hard at creating and presenting for your pleasure and uploading them to other sites yourself to get attention, do the decent thing and copy the link to the page the photo is on and paste the link to Facebook instead. That is all.