Jim Murphy's Railpics
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Hello and welcome to Jim M's Railpics, my humble gallery of rail-related images from the past few years. I am gradually working my way through my archive as well as adding recent stuff, so the various Class sections should be getting updated fairly regularly. You can automatically receive notices whenever I update the site, simply use the "Notify Me" box on the right or subscribe to the RSS feed. I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoy hanging about in the freezing rain waiting to take them!

TECH INFO: Shots dated between November 2003 and early February 2007 were taken with an Olympus C-4000 Zoom compact digital camera. Shots taken thereafter were taken with a Fuji S9600 digital camera. The C-4000 had a mere 4 megapixels and could be extremely slow to respond, often refusing to focus on moving objects - not exactly ideal for photographing trains! However it was a "means to an end" and I suppose it has done quite well considering all the shots I've taken over the years. All images are processed in Adobe Photoshop CS.
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About Me
I've been hooked on railways since earlier in my life than I can remember, thanks to dad's influence. During the 80s I was taken along on several quality railtours and our Sunday family outings generally included at least one rail-mounted item of some description being viewed. In my schooling era most weekends were spent trainspotting around Manchester or Warrington, and I was also into planespotting for a couple of years. Upon starting college circa 1994 the enthusiasm for trains and planes tailed off, replaced by enthusiasm for 'other things' shall we say...

And thus I was 'out of the loop' for the best part of 10 years, missing what was essentially the final fling of locomotive usage in the UK almost completely. I've come to accept I will probably never get over that! Then in mid-2003 I was casually browsing the railway mags in A Well-Known High Street Newsagents when I noticed a spurious (as it turned out) report that the withdrawal of the Class 87s - my favourite electric locos - was imminent. Before I knew it I had bought a digital camera, a Coast & Peaks Rover and was well and truly 'back in the habit'.

I soon realised that the railways of Britain had already changed beyond my recognition; any illusions that I had 'kept up' with the times were quickly and ruthlessly dismissed. Viewing the rows of stored locomotives around this time I couldn't help thinking, 'So this is how they felt in 1968?'

Being very much a glass-half-empty person I have struggled with finding much to like about the modern rail scene, with just the one predominant Class of freight loco which never breaks down and is always making the same annoying noise, and the Multiple Units on everything else, and the confounding tortures of privatisation.

However!! As the old saying goes, one who looks over his shoulder forever only gains a sore neck. Since getting back into the hobby I have met some top people, made new friends and re-acquainted with old ones. We're very fortunate in the UK to have such a strong preservation scene, which will hopefully survive the vagaries of fuel and metal prices for the foreseeable future.

With the inexorable modernisation of the Network I have found my area of interest shifting away from the rolling stock which now plies the rails and more towards railway technology, infrastructure and operations.

I am currently working in the rail industry, but in my spare time I try to avail myself of heritage traction, music, buses, model railways, airliners, countryside (less so in hay fever season), ale and Home Made Cakes™ as often as possible!

Location:Manchester, UK

Most Recent Collections
30th Oct 200800 - Latest Pics
12th Jun 2008Airliners - Airbus A320 family
12th Jun 2008Airliners - Airbus A330
12th Jun 2008Airliners - Boeing 737
12th Jun 2008Airliners - Boeing 747
12th Jun 2008Airliners - Boeing 757
12th Jun 2008Airliners - Boeing 777
12th Jun 2008Airliners - Regional
1st Nov 2003Class 20 - The Choppers
1st Nov 2003Class 24 to 46 - Sulzers Great & Small
1st Nov 2003Class 31 - The Gargoyles
1st Nov 2003Class 37 - The Tractors
1st Nov 2003Class 40 & 50 - The EE Type 4s
1st Nov 2003Class 43 - The HSTs
1st Nov 2003Class 47 - The Brush 4s
1st Nov 2003Class 56 - The Grids
1st Nov 2003Class 57 - The Ronnies
1st Nov 2003Class 60 - The Tugs
1st Nov 2003Class 67 - The Skips
1st Nov 2003Class 76 to 91 - The Other Electrics
1st Nov 2003Class 87 - The Electric Scots
1st Nov 2003Class 90 - The Skodas
1st Nov 2003Class 92 - The Dysons
17th Jan 2004DLG 040117 - East Lancs EE Gala
21st Feb 2004DLG 040221 - East Lancs Sulzer Gala
20th Mar 2004DLG 040320 - East Lancs Hydraulic Gala
3rd Apr 2004DLG 040403 - MRB spring Diesel Gala
24th Apr 2004DLG 040424 - NYMR Diesel Gala
14th May 2005DLG 050514 - NYMR Diesel Gala
11th Mar 2006DLG 060311 - Llangollen spring Diesel Gala
1st Apr 2006DLG 060401 - G&WR spring Diesel Gala
29th Apr 2006DLG 060429 - AFRPS Diesel Gala
6th May 2006DLG 060506 - NYMR Diesel Gala
2nd Sep 2006DLG 060902 - East Lancs Diesel Gala
15th Sep 2006
to 16th Sep 2006
DLG 060915 - GCR Diesel Gala
17th Sep 2006DLG 060917 - Battlefield Diesel Gala
23rd Sep 2006DLG 060923 - Peak Rail Diesel Gala
30th Sep 2006
to 1st Oct 2006
DLG 060930 - Bo'ness Diesel Gala
11th Nov 2006DLG 061111 - East Lancs EE Gala
17th Mar 2007DLG 070317 - Llangollen spring Diesel Gala
1st Nov 2003Driving Trailers
1st Nov 2003On Track Plant
1st Oct 2003Railway scenes
24th Jan 2004RLT 040124 - The East Lancs Envoy
17th Apr 2004RLT 040417 - The S&C Tyne Valley Circular
22nd May 2004RLT 040522 - The Western Whistler II
26th Feb 2005RLT 050226 - The High Peaks Hustler
23rd Apr 2005RLT 050423 - The Thales Flyer
26th Aug 2005
to 28th Aug 2005
RLT 050826 - The Whistling Scotsman
8th Oct 2005RLT 051008 - The New Musical Express
27th Oct 2005RLT 051027 - The Blackpool Express
5th Nov 2005RLT 051105 - The Capital Crusader
17th Dec 2005RLT 051217 - The Cumbrian Fellsman
30th Dec 2005RLT 051230 - The Cumbrian Choppers
26th Feb 2006RLT 060226 - The Welsh Whistler
3rd Jun 2006RLT 060603 - The Esk Invader
20th Jan 2007RLT 070120 - The Lancashire Witch
27th Jan 2007RLT 070127 - The Tubular Belle
10th Jun 2007RLT 070610 - The Bowring Centenarian
1st Nov 2003Shunters & Industrials
1st Oct 2003Steam
1st Nov 2003Trams
1st Sep 2003Unclassified Repair
1st Nov 2003Units
1st Jan 1990
to 1st Oct 1994
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