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Welcome to my railway photographs by John Eyres.
This is a selection of my modern traction collection taken from 1996 to present day from various parts of the country. I try not to photograph in bad light so some poorer shots will be left out to keep some sort of standard! Almost all photographs are scanned 35mm or more recently medium format 645 slides.
I will be adding more collections from around the country when I find the time and captions will appear eventually. Watch this space!
In the future I hope to add a steam gallery but in the meantime check out my shipping gallery with the link below.
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    57315 passing Whitchurch on the 1W91 Cardiff-Holyhead 25/06/09  Latest Photographs  (4)
    47727 & 47749 at Burton-on-Trent with the 6Z48 Burton west yard-Dollands Moor 02/07/09  Latest Photographs  (3)
    47826 with 804 on the rear working the 1Z77 Aberystwyth-Leeds tour at Whitchurch 25/06/09  Latest Photographs  (2)
    37401 & 37670 working the 6F61 Runcorn Folly lane-Arpley at Weaver Jct after a run round at Northwich 01/05/09  Latest Photographs  (2)
    47813 passing Postwick on the 15.40 Great Yarmouth-Norwich Crown Point ecs 20/09/08  Norfolk / Anglia  (2)
    86101 passing Red Bank on the 1M44 Sheildmuir-Warrington mail 22/07/08.  Railways around Warrington  (2)
    37515/261 3J96 Crewe-Holyhead RHTT at Llanfairfechan 20/10/07  North Wales Coast  (2)
    56071 working the 6F66 14.53 Boulby Mine-Tees Dock at Warsett Hill 04/08/03  Teeside  (2)
    56054 'British Steel Llanwern' passes Monks Sidings on the low level in working 6F50 11.40 Arpley-Allerton 25/10/01  Railways around Warrington  (2)
    10 37411/37425 pass Chinley working 6f67 Dowlow-Arpley. After getting stuck in roadworks around Disley, I thought I had no chance but luckily they lost time at Buxton 23/10/07  East Midlands / Peak District  (2)
    Most Recent Collections
    Latest Photographs (34 images) Updated
    A selection of latest railway photographs
    Updated: 02.07.09
    Lancashire (40 images)
    Mainly covering local lines around Preston, Blackpool, Wigan & Bolton. Looking through my collection it seems largely dominated by class 47s on either XC services & weekend diversions.
    East Midlands / Peak District (51 images)
    An area of the country covered thinly by myself. I don't have a rather large collection around here considering most of these locations are not much more than an hours drive away.
    Teeside (23 images)
    I only had one good day with the 56 hauled potash trains on the Boulby branch in 2003 and im glad I did. I've only visited the area recently for railtours to Whitby and these will be added shortly.
    Lincolnshire (18 images)
    Most of these shots are centred around Barnetby, Melton Ross & Wrawby Jct where these lines have retained there magnificent semaphore signals.
    Yorkshire / S&C (44 images)
    A mixture of shots taken on the S&C line and around Hellifield as well as a few around south Yorkshire. This makes up most of my collection as there are plently of spots on my 'to do' list.
    Scotland (9 images)
    West Midlands (19 images)
    I took most of these shots while the class 47s were on the Nuneaton diversions shortly before class 57s taken over.
    Staffordshire (23 images)
    Most of these shots were taken around Millmeece, Slindon, Heamies farm & Stafford.
    Merseyside (29 images)
    I dont have a particularly large collection from this area despite living in close proximity. Added to that I visit the Wirral regularly photographing shipping and haven't attempted any Merseyrail electric units which is something still on my 'to do' list!
    Devon (38 images)
    Trips to the area on summer saturdays were always enjoyable. Since the XC 47s finished my visit my visits have been few & far between. Unfortunately Cockwood harbour has recently been ruined by the dreaded network rail fence.
    Manchester area (24 images)
    This collection covers the regular winter sunday diversions around Stockport & Ordsall lane as well as well as some 101s around Piccadilly before they finished.
    Norfolk / Anglia (17 images)
    Cambrian coast (20 images)
    Although this line only sees units, they are still worth photographing at the excellent scenic locations on the line. I have been fortunate with the weather on numerous class 37 hauled railtours in this area of the last few years.
    South East (15 images)
    This collection mainly covers the class 73s on the Gatwick express services a couple of years before they finished.
    North Wales Coast (105 images)
    Covering north Wales & Anglesey. This area has been blessed with loco hauled passenger services in recent years with virgin/arriva today along with class 47s & 37s before that. Pound for pound the nw coast has some of the best locations in the country so that coupled with good weather made it quite successful for me!
    South Wales (42 images)
    This section largely covers the last years of class 37 hauled passenger services along the Rhymney valley along with some along the south Wales mainline.
    Cheshire (74 images)
    This section covers most of the railways around Chester & south of Warrington.
    Class 37s around Warrington (77 images)
    A section covering the various class 37 hauled duties around the Warrington area from 2000 onwards. This includes the local trip workings which used to be regularly booked for type 3 traction as well as the short return of the 'Irish Mancunian' passenger service. Luckily Warrington has become one of the last places to sample these EE beasts.
    Railways around Warrington (114 images)
    Covering the various railways around Warrington predominantly on the west coast mainline as well as the Cheshire lines, low level & LNWR chat moss line. This is where I live so ive tried to show as much variety as possible.
    Bristol area (19 images)
    Photographs around the Bristol, Bath and Westbury area.
    Thames Valley (14 images)
    A selection of photographs around the Banbury, Oxford, Didcot & Reading area.
    Most Recent Photo

    47727 & 47749 at Burton-on-Trent with the 6Z48 Burton west yard-Dollands Moor 02/07/09
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