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This is where I will announce the most recent additions to my web site. If you've visited this site before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first.

01/05/08 Picture of the Month for May 2008.

01/05/08 "Built at Brighton" weekend, some photographs from Saturday 26th April.

01/05/08 E4 No.32473 10 year overhaul withdrawal photo charter.

01/05/08 Ivatt No.41312 on a Matt Allen & Warwick Falconer early morning charter on the Mid-Hants Railway.

01/05/08 Update - ED Class 73 at Folkestone Harbour .

01/05/08 Update - Cross Country Class 220 departing Gatwick Airport station.

01/05/08 Update - Class 67 rolls down from the mainline to Folkestone Harbour.

01/05/08 Update - Class 166 page

01/04/08 Picture of the Month for April 2008.

01/04/08 Bluebell Railway - Goods Weekend 2008.

01/04/07 Main Line Tour - Puffer-Buffer, Class 37's, No.37401 & 37405

01/04/08 Class 460 Gatwick Express.

01/04/08 Main Line Electrostar EMU 377 page update.

01/03/08 Picture of the Month for March 2008.

01/03/08 Bluebell Railway visiting Great Western Railway locomotive No.1450 and the Auto Coach Trailer No.178.

01/03/08 Bluebell Railway Branch Line weekend 2008.

01/03/08 Bluebell Railway Standard 4T No.80151 on Goldern Arrow duties in February.

01/03/08 Bluebell Railway E4 Tank No.32473 page update.

01/03/08 Bluebell Railway O1 class page update.

01/03/08 Main Line Class 73 Electro Diesel No.73213 early morning pass at Gatwick.

01/03/08 Main Line Electrostar EMU 377 page update.

01/03/08 Main Line Class 450 ‘Desiro’ Electric Multiple Unit page update.

01/03/08 Main Line Siemens Desrio EMU Class 444 page update.

01/03/08 Main Line Class 66 page update.

01/02/08 Picture of the Month for February 2008.

01/02/08 T9 No.120 and Schools Class, Stowe No.928 participated in an evening charter at Sheffield Park station and Yard.

01/02/08 Three new pages of Winter steam on the Bluebell Railway.

01/02/08 Minor update to Class 460, Gatwick Express pages.

01/02/08 Minor update to the EMU Class 319 pages.

01/01/08 Picture of the Month for January 2008.

01/01/08 Bluebell Railway Fenchurch page updates.

01/01/08 Bluebell Railway, Class O1 page updates.

01/01/08 New photographs added to the Black & White pages including a photograph of Horsted Keynes Station.

01/01/08 Minor update to the EMU Class 319 pages.

01/12/07 Picture of the Month for December 2007.

01/12/07 Photo charter Appledore No. 34100 at the Bluebell Railway.

01/12/07 New - Golden Rails, Some photographs dedicated to the autumn colours on the Bluebell Railway.

01/12/07 Update to the Bluebell Railway's U Class No.1638 page.

01/12/07 Class 66 & Class 67 update from Lewes & Seaford during a recent Lewes engineering blockade.

01/11/07 Picture of the Month for November 2007.

01/11/07 Bluebell Railway Giants of Steam Gala 2007 three new pages form this great annual event.

01/11/07 Mainline, 37417 running on the diesel hauled sections of the Sussex Explorer.

01/11/07 Mainline Steam, LMS Class 5MT No.45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' during the recent Sussex Explorer trip.

01/10/07 Picture of the Month for October 2007.

01/10/07 Bluebell Railway, Standard 4MT No.80151 page update.

01/10/07 Bluebell Railway, Blackmoor Vale page update.

01/09/07 BR Standard Class 5MT No.73096 on a mixed goods train, Mid Hants Railway charter organised by Matt Allen & Warwick Falconer.

01/09/07 New pages for Black & White photography.

01/10/07 Modern Traction, Class 47 page update.

01/10/07 Modern Traction, Class 158 & 159 page update.

01/10/07 Granny Wendy's Railway (G.W.R.), Balmuchy Halt. Gauge One model railway built by my boy's Grandparents, (perhaps that's why they like going to Nanas for holidays).

01/09/07 Picture of the Month for September 2007.

01/09/07 Bluebell 125, The railway celebrated the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Bluebell Line.

01/09/07 Mainline Steam with Tangmere departing from Lewes Station.

01/09/07 Mainline Class 66 running the Lairg Tankers in Scotland.

01/08/07 Class 47, No.47854 West Coast Railways running through Scotland with the Royal Scotsman.

01/08/07 Mainline Class 37 running in Sussex.

01/08/07 Having just come back from Scotland I have many updates to my Scottish Landscapes site.

01/08/07 Picture of the Month for August 2007.

01/08/07 Metropolitan Railway Locomotive No.1 visiting the Bluebell Railway.

01/08/07 Photo charter with Eddystone running as Dartmoor No.34021.

01/08/07 Revised page for Blackmoor Vale.

01/08/07 Revised page for No.55 Stepney

01/08/07 U Class No.1638 updated page

01/08/07 Main Line Class 47 No.47802

01/08/07 Main Line Voyager at Balcombe, West Sussex

01/08/07 Main Line Class 67 at Folkestone Harbour

01/08/07 Mainline Steam No. 850 Lord Nelson at Folkestone

01/07/07 Picture of the Month for July 2007.

01/07/07 Update to Bluebell Railway Standard 4 Tank page.

01/07/07 Update to Bluebell Railway O1 Class page.

01/07/07 Update to Bluebell Railway No. 55 Stepney page.

01/07/07 Mainline Steam No. 850 Lord Nelson running through Kent.

01/07/07 New Page Mainline EMU 465 Class.

01/07/07 Update on Electrostar page.

01/07/07 Was this the last day the sun shone! 171 Turbostar passing the windmill at Rye.

01/07/07 Callum's birthday treat was a day at Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset.

01/06/07 Picture of the Month for June 2007.

01/06/07 Eddystone page update.

01/06/07 U Class, No.1638 page update.

01/06/07 Earl of Berkeley page update.

01/06/07 Mainline Class 220/221Voyager page update.

01/06/07 Mainline Class 66 page update.

01/06/07 Mainline Class 43 HST page update.

01/06/07 One photograph of Duke of Gloucester on the mainline.

01/06/07 NEW VIDEO PAGES - Callum Pettitt, my eldest son (8¾ years) has contributed to the site this month with his first attempts at video. He has captured some short clips of mainline action from the Thames Valley during a half-term visit. (if you like them why not drop a note in the guest book)

13/05/07 Bluebell Railway's Southern at War 2007 event. Photographs available from the event via my site, click on logo.

01/05/07 Picture of the Month for May 2007.

01/04/07 Bluebell Railway, Standard 4, No.80151 page updated.

01/05/07 Bluebell Railway, E4 No.32473 page updated.

01/05/07 Eddystone page update.

01/05/07 Day trip to Swanage Railway April 2007.

16/04/07 Updated page for Bluebell Railway's Goods Train Weekend.

01/04/07 Picture of the Month for April 2007.

01/04/07 Updated page for Bluebell Railway's, U Class No.1638.

01/04/07 Main Line Tour - Puffer-Buffer, Class 37's, No.37410 & 37401, photographs taken in the Balcombe & Haywards Heath areas of West Sussex.

01/04/07 Updated page for EMU Class 377 Electrostar

01/04/07 Updated page for EMU Class 319

01/03/07 Picture of the Month for March 2007.

01/03/07 The Bluebell Railway, Branch Line Weekend, 2007.

01/03/07 Class 442 Wessex Units, updated page with last working on the Sheperton branch line

01/03/07 Main line Class 455 in the London suburbs.

01/03/07 Main line Diesel action with the celebrity Class 47, Captain Sensible 47810 and Hermes 47703 at Brighton.

01/02/07 Picture of the Month for February 2007.

01/02/07 Folkestone Harbour Branch final steam hauled service? Tangmere No.34067 possibly pulls the last train into Folkestone Harbour station on Saturday 27/01/07 as part of a Kent & Sussex tour.

01/01/07 Picture of the Month for January 2007.

01/01/07 New photographs of Class O1, No.65 running with the vintage carriages on the 1st January 2007.

01/01/07 A couple of grab shots of a rare and very quick visit to Newhaven Harbour of Class 31, No.31233. The train ran differently to the times given and had a quick run into Seaford and back to Lewes, at 11.00 p.m. 08/12/06.

01/01/07 The Christmas blockade from Redhill to Gatwick saw GBRf's, Class 66, No.66715 standing at Earlswood station whilst work progressed at several locations along the line. Unfortunately the weather prevented me being any more adventurous than this single photograph.

I have added a new feature whereby prints of some images on this site can be ordered through. Having used the service it appears to offer a good quality of both service and prints, give it try.

01/12/06 Picture of the Month for December.

01/12/06 Somerset & Dorset Photographic Charter 17th November at the Bluebell Railway.

01/12/06 New page for Bluebell visitor, West Country Class, Eddystone, No.34028.

01/12/06 First Capital Connect Class 319 derailed at Brighton Station 18th November 2006.