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- Art deco railway posters, and the look of speed.Art deco railway posters are the flat, geometric travel posters of the late 1920s and 1930s, drawn around the streamlined trains of that decade. Think one hard diagonal, clean blocks of colour and lettering…
- British Rail posters: the BR years.British Rail posters are the posters of the nationalised railway, from 1948 until the 1990s. For the first fifteen years they looked a lot like the old company posters, region by region. Then, in 1965, the…
- Flying Scotsman: where it is, who owns it, and why it is famous.Flying Scotsman is a steam locomotive built at Doncaster in 1923, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, and owned today by the National Railway Museum. It still runs, it still tours, and people ask the same few…
- Gifts for train driversThe best gift for a train driver is a good photograph of the railway they actually worked: their traction, their route, their depot, ideally their last service. Most railway gifts are made for people who…
- Gifts for train lovers, train enthusiasts and trainspottersSpotting is a record-keeping habit that happens to involve photography. That changes what makes a good gift, because the picture they are proudest of is often not the prettiest one in the folder. It is the…
- GWR posters: the Great Western look.GWR posters were the Great Western Railway’s own advertising, and the GWR is the odd one out in the story. When Britain’s railways were squeezed into four big companies in 1923, it was the only one that…
- How big your photograph can really goSizes sound abstract until the parcel arrives. Two things decide which one is right: the wall it is going on, and the file you are working from. The second is not a matter of taste, so this page gives you…
- LNER posters: the decade of speed.LNER posters are the travel posters of the London and North Eastern Railway, made between 1923 and 1947, and most poster collectors will tell you they are the best of the lot. The company hired the…
- Model railway giftsEverybody else on this site photographs something that already existed. A layout builder photographs something they made, often over years, and that changes the gift completely. It is closer to printing…
- Personalised train giftsMost personalised gifts mean a name added to something. Ours doesn't. There is no name field here, no date, no engraved message and no room for one. What is personal is the photograph, and that turns out to…
- Preparing a railway photograph for printThere is no name to set on this site, no date to add and no message field. You upload a picture and we print it, so the file is the entire thing you are buying. That makes preparing it the only job worth…
- Railway journeysTwenty-two lines, two viaducts, Santa trains and Flying Scotsman. Pick one, then plan the trip.
- Railway journeys and print guidesFollow 5 sections: railway journeys, the poster tradition, your photograph, gift advice and the formats you can print on.
- Railway posters and train travel posters, from the platform to your wall.Railway posters are the advertisements Britain’s railway companies pasted up in stations from the 1840s onwards, and at their best, between the wars, they were some of the finest commercial art in the…
- Santa trains and Santa specials in the UK, 2026.A Santa special is a heritage railway’s Christmas trip: a steam train ride with a visit from Father Christmas and a present for each child. Most run from late November to Christmas Eve, and the railways…
- Steam train experiences: driving days, footplate tasters and dining trains.A steam train experience is a day on a heritage railway as crew rather than passenger, or a meal served on a moving steam train. This guide sets out what several railways include, who can take part, and how…
- Steam train giftsSteam is the one railway subject that photographs itself. The exhaust does half the composition, the light does the rest, and the difference between a frame that prints beautifully and one that dies on…
- Steam train pictures: one photograph, five studio stylesThe steam train picture worth hanging is usually one you took yourself. This page shows a steam scene in each of the five studio styles, side by side, so you can see what each does to exhaust, metal and…
- The Bluebell Railway, Sheffield Park to East Grinstead.The Bluebell Railway runs 11 miles through Sussex from Sheffield Park to East Grinstead. Each of its four stations is kept to a different period. This guide covers the line, the remarkable story of its…
- The Brecon Mountain Railway, Pant to Torpantau.The Brecon Mountain Railway runs narrow gauge steam trains from Pant, near Merthyr Tydfil, past Pontsticill Reservoir and up to Torpantau. It follows part of a railway that opened in 1863 and closed in…
- The East Lancashire Railway, Heywood to Rawtenstall.The East Lancashire Railway is a 12-mile heritage line from Heywood through Bury and Ramsbottom to Rawtenstall. It closed to passengers in 1972 and reopened in stages from 1987. This guide covers the…
- The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways, from Porthmadog.Two narrow gauge railways meet at Porthmadog Harbour: the Ffestiniog, climbing to Blaenau Ffestiniog, and the Welsh Highland, running to Caernarfon. Both are run by the same operator, and between them they…
- The giftEight guides, one per kind of present. From spotters to drivers and granddads.
- The Glenfinnan Viaduct, and where to watch the train cross.The Glenfinnan Viaduct is a curving row of 21 concrete arches on the line to Mallaig, opened in 1901, and the Jacobite steam train crosses it twice on every trip in the season. This guide covers what it is,…
- The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, Cheltenham to Broadway.The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway runs 14 miles from Cheltenham Race Course to Broadway through the Gloucestershire countryside. British Rail lifted the track in 1979, and volunteers have relaid it…
- The Great Central Railway, Loughborough to Leicester North.The Great Central Railway runs eight miles between Loughborough and Leicester North on a former main line. The operator says it is the only heritage railway in the UK with double track, so trains can pass…
- The Isle of Wight Steam Railway, Smallbrook Junction to Wootton.The Isle of Wight Steam Railway runs on about five miles of the old Ryde to Newport line, from Smallbrook Junction through Havenstreet to Wootton. Its oldest locomotive dates from 1876, and you can arrive…
- The Jacobite steam train, Fort William to Mallaig.The Jacobite steam train runs from Fort William to Mallaig and back, 84 miles along the West Highland Extension, operated by West Coast Railways. It crosses the Glenfinnan Viaduct, a curve of 21 concrete…
- The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Keighley to Oxenhope.The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway runs from Keighley up the valley to Haworth and Oxenhope in West Yorkshire. It opened in 1867, closed in the early 1960s and was reopened by its own society in 1968,…
- The Llangollen Railway, Llangollen to Corwen.The Llangollen Railway follows the River Dee for 10 miles from Llangollen to Corwen in north Wales. The line closed in the 1960s, and the rebuild ran from a first open day in 1975 to Corwen Central in 2023.…