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Welcome to my site.
The Erewash Valley route runs more or less along the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire from Trent Junction and Toton yard north to Clay Cross Junction where it joins the main Derby-Sheffield route.
I've lived within sight and sound of the line all my life and my rail enthusiasm was all started by trips with my grandad to the lineside in the mid 1960s when all diesels were green, the stock was maroon, the line was still semaphore signalled and you could still see the dying embers of steam with 8Fs, WD 2-8-0s, 9Fs and various other standards amid the Peaks, 25s, 47s, DMUs and ER visitors in the shape of 31s and 37s or Brush 2s and EE 3s as we knew them then.
There seemed to be hordes of young enthusiasts in those days and most school holidays and summer evenings were spent beside the Erewash trainspotting and filling in the times between trains with all sorts of mayhem.
Familiarity breeds contempt of course and we all disappeared off to the regular spotting destinations of Crewe, York, Doncaster and Birmingham New Street as often as time and pocket money allowed.
No Erewash spotter of the 1970'swould have ever foresaw a time when he would have missed seeing pairs of 20s on coal trains or the endless sightings of peaks on the midland main line expresses but I'd give a great deal to see them again.
I started photography in 1977 and much of my early efforts were naturally of the Erewash and since then I've taken many thousands of shots along it, although like everyone who has ever pointed a camera at the railway I have many regrets about what I let slip through my fingers photographically speaking.
I have been lucky to have recorded so much though, owing to the nature of my job as a musician I've had more spare time than most during the day and as such had many opportunities to get out with the camera.
On this site I've tried to illustrate some of the huge variety of motive power and workings seen along the Erewash over the last 30 years, hope you enjoy looking at the pictures as much as I've enjoyed taking them. |
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Im a professional musician with a lifelong interest in railways and photography. I took my first photos in 1977 and I've been an active photter ever since.
I am a member of the Phoenix railway Photographic Circle.
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