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20081029_02.jpg   The 08:04 Grand Central service to Sunderland storms past Harringay. I counted 4 passengers in 5 cars. That can't be a paying proposition can it?  Home Counties Autumn  (24)
20091019.jpg   At South Tottenham on a murky Monday morning the Colas-operated 7Z98, complete with hired in DRS 47832 leading 47739 Robin of Templecombe on a lengthy Silla to Dagenham Transfesa inter-modal.  An Autumnal Week  (17)
20091027_01.jpg   Tuesday 27th. We're on the bridge of the M23 link road, awaiting the 7Y36. An Easyjet Airbus landing as a Portsmouth Harbour and Barnham to Victoria semi-fast approaches Gatwick Airport.  The ongoing Indian Summer  (15)
20091031_11.jpg   The loco list of Freightmaster Interactive (thanks SS) shows this as the 4Z46 to Daventry, which I guess probably originated in Novara, Italy.   The ongoing Indian Summer  (12)
20091027_08.jpg   66147 has almost cleared the main line, the shunter watches intently.  The ongoing Indian Summer  (10)
20091029_01.jpg   My first MPV of the season, the 3S91, a Horsham based working, getting underway from Redhill...  The ongoing Indian Summer  (9)
20091031_07.jpg   Back to Old Linslade and my first sight of a 321 in LM livery.  The ongoing Indian Summer  (8)
20091031_04.jpg   The 3J93 RHTT from West Hampstead to Toton passing Ampthill Park House on its way north...  The ongoing Indian Summer  (8)
20091031_02.jpg   Five minutes later the sky was brightening as a pair of 221s speed towards Linslade Tunnel whilst a north-bound Pendolino emerges   The ongoing Indian Summer  (8)
10 20091031_05.jpg   ...67029 is looking very grubby.  The ongoing Indian Summer  (7)
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The working week
8th Oct 2009
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(Mainly) Freight Week
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Welsh Marches and Welsh Highland
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Switzerland - making up for lost time
16th Sep 2009
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Back home
4th Sep 2009
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Chasing trains in the Upper Midwest
29th Aug 2009Felixstowe Bank Holiday Diverts
23rd Aug 2009
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The end is nigh...August Week 4
22nd Aug 2009Brantham and Manningtree
17th Aug 2009
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Week 3....is summer almost over?
10th Aug 2009
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August...now it's week 2
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3rd Aug 2009August...Week 1
2nd Aug 2009Home Counties Sunday
25th Jul 2009
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My Week
18th Jul 2009
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Shropshire and Sir Drefaldwyn; a weekend in the Marches
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July Stuff
11th Jul 2009Saturday - peering over the parapet
2nd Jun 2009
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Early morning at Old Linslade and evening at Dudswell
19th Jun 2009
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Scotland '09
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26th Feb 2009
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London Lines in 2009
13th Jun 2009Manningtree
11th Jun 2009Thursday
30th May 2009Mad May Morning in March
22nd May 2009
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Bank Holiday Weekend
22nd Apr 2009
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Being Diverted
16th May 2009
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A showery weekend in London
9th May 2009
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Rhätische Bahn/Ferrovia Retica/Viafier Retica
2nd May 2009Dorset Weekend
24th Nov 2008
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Out on the Brighton Line
19th Apr 2009Sunday afternoon on the ECML
21st Feb 2009
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East Anglian Diversions
3rd Apr 2009
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East Anglian weekdays
27th Mar 2009
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Spring in Snowdonia
17th Mar 2009
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Trains in the Tirol
14th Mar 2009Panning in Yorkshire
15th Feb 2009Valentines Day
14th Feb 2009Connections - pictures from 1993, 1994 and 2000
7th Feb 2009Dudswell and Tornado
6th Feb 2009From the archives: 1997
2nd Feb 2009
to 4th Feb 2009
Out and about in the snow
31st Jan 2009Old Linslade in winter
5th Jan 2009
to 18th Jan 2009
An introduction to India
30th Dec 2008Freightliner's festive diversions
27th Dec 2008From the water meadows at King's Sutton
24th Dec 2008A festive Adelante
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The 08:04 Grand Central service to Sunderland storms past Harringay. I counted 4 passengers in 5 cars. That can't be a paying proposition can it?
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Home Counties Autumn
Welcome
Hello, welcome to my fotopic site. My name is Nick Slocombe I live and work in London and I’ve been passionately interested in railways, in all their forms, for most of my life.

I’ve fairly catholic tastes when it comes to taking pictures, all it needs is a steel wheel on a steel rail and some sun, but I do have a particular fascination for the railways of North and South America, and have been very fortunate and travelled quite extensively on both continents in the past 20 years or so.

Here in the UK I use Freightmaster to track freight operations, the FM Interactive service is indispensible for anyone photographing, or simply watching, freight trains

Some of the older pictures are from my slide collection whilst the most recent were taken on, firstly, a Nikon D70s and latterly a D300 digital SLR.
Links
  • Brighton Atlantic Project
  • Chris Nevard's Railway Photography Gallery
  • Freightmaster
  • Latin Tracks - The Latin American Railway Digest.
  • Michael Venn's gallery of Australasian steam
  • Peter Tandy's Railway Photos
  • Phil Wormald's international railway gallery
  • Rail Photography Gallery - Peter Richards
  • Railway and travel photographs by Paul Bigland
  • Fotopic.Net