About Us:-

All my life I have enjoyed photographs of railway engines. As a professional engineer I still enjoy photographing anything with railway connections. Recently I developed an interest in the history of the railway and how it has evolved today. I particularly enjoy the Victorian era with the engines of great character. This has led to the construction of this web site.

A colleague and I thought it was a pity that others could not enjoy our engineering interest, encapsulated in the photo’s we and other enthusiasts take and collect. We have therefore taken the step of creating this web site to make the photographs available to others. Friends and relatives have also given me their own collections to use and this has led to a collection of old photographs covering many years.

All photographs will be available to view on this site and then if of interest can be obtained to a higher resolution on CD ROM. In order to maintain the collection a charge has to be made for the CD ROM’s to cover materials, postage, packing, the web site and to maintain the images in computerised format. The original photographs are also to be maintained in good condition or the original owner is paid a royalty for his involvement.

The quality of the prints is on the whole very good but there are a few images of poorer quality that still contain information for modellers and are therefore included. The older images are particularly useful and have captured the way that engines and rolling stock become weathered in their working life. Some of the prints are very old, in excess of 100 years in some cases, so some latitude should be given to the quality of the scans provided.

The photo’s we already have are in all forms: colour negative, black and white negative, colour prints, colour transparencies and the oldest are in monochrome sepia coloured postcard sized contact prints. This makes scanning the items time consuming so please be patient and this site should slowly grow in its content and diversification.

The photos do have an engineering slant and close-ups of bit and pieces are common so they should be of interest to model makers, collectors or just plain enthusiasts alike.

To begin with the images will be in collections of 10 or more to a CD. Please feel free to print the photographs for your own personal use as there would be no purpose in supplying them to you. The copyright does ultimately reside with Steam Photos and therefore permission to publish further should be requested by email.

We hope you have as much enjoyment of the images as we have had making them available to all. Please, keep returning to the site regularly to see what’s new! If this site becomes popular and the conditions of the copyright are not abused then more images will become available on a regular basis. Publishing any of these images on the Internet is strictly forbidden as this will ultimately kill this service.

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