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Welcome to my gallery of railway photographs. This site is under development, but over time I hope to show my collection of images taken from the 1970s right up to the present day. With a large amount of archive material to sort and scan, it's going to take time for the site to develop, but please do make regular visits to see what's new.
The content of the site will focus on the scenic lines of North and Mid Wales and along the Welsh Marches, which has been my "patch" for many years.
I owe a great deal to my father, the late Geoff Bannister who introduced me to the hobby and provided inspiration, sound guidance, resources and good company. He is sadly missed and as a small tribute, I hope to include some of his material too.
I would also like to thank Richard Jones for his help in setting up this website and scanning many of the slides . Richard has an excellent website which contains high quality contemporary material of the Cambrian, Central Wales and Marches lines. Well worth a look.
All the colour archive images which will appear on this site were taken with an Olympus OM1 and various Zuiko prime lenses onto either Kodachrome 25 or 64 and later Fuji Velvia film. Monochrome images were taken with the same equipment, using either FP4 or XP1 filmstock.
All images from 2007 onwards have been taken in digital format with a Nikon D80 and Nikkor lenses.
I hope you enjoy the pictures - please feel free to contact me using the Leave a Message function. |
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 | 27th Jan 2009 | Along the North and West Line (Digital Images)
Various loco hauled trains and preserved steam along the Welsh Marches line from Newport to Shrewsbury and Chester
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 | 14th Apr 2008 | Around the Central Wales Line (Digital Images)
Various loco hauled trains on the Central Wales Line between Craven Arms and Llandovery.
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 | 20th Jan 2008 | The Cambrian in the 1970's
A collection of archive scans of transparancies taken by the late Geoff Bannister.
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 | 6th May 2007 | Cambrian Diesels (Colour) |
 | 6th May 2007 | Lines to Blaenau Ffestiniog (Colour)
Colour images taken on the Conwy Valley and Trawsfynydd lines in the period 1986 to 1995, covering the last Class 25 working, D200 working service trains and Class 31s on the nuclear power sattion decomissioning trains in 1994 and 1995.
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 | 28th Apr 2007 | Around the Central Wales Line (monchrome images) |
 | 28th Apr 2007 | Blodwell Quarry Ballast Workings (Monochrome images)
A collection of photographs taken during the last few years of operation. This line incorporated the former GWR Gobowen-Oswestry Branch, the last remains of Cambrian main line through Oswestry and surviving remains of the Porthywaen and Tanat Valley branches.
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 | 28th Apr 2007 | Lines to Blaenau Ffestiniog (monchrome)
A collection of photographs taken on the former L&NWs Conway Valley Route, together with the freight only former GWR line from Bala, which was retained for nuclear waste traffic from Trawsfynnyd Power station. This is an area of dramatic scenery and was possible to photograph Class 25 on freight and Class 40s & 47 on passenger as an everyday occurance.
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 | 28th Apr 2007 | Cambrian Images (Monchrome)
A collection of photographs taken around the Cambrian Lines during the period 1973 - 88. This was a period of many changes in motive power and infrastructure, with the Class 24's being replaced by Class 25's who were then ousted from Cambrian front line duties by the more powerful Class 37's from 1985 onwards.
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 | 19th Apr 2007 | Around the Cambrian (Digital Images)
A selection of digital images taken on the former Cambrian lines from 2007 onwards, covering the occasional railtours, charters and locomotive hauled infrastructure trains. All other workings on the line are the ubiquitous Class 158 units and images of these will not be appearing on this site.....
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| All images on this website are copyright of Andrew Bannister and may not be reproduced in any form or publication without my permission. Images are defined as jpeg or gif files. I will actively seek out copyright violations and use the full force of the law where required to deal with them. Unauthorised commercial use of my material will attract a reproduction fee of £250 (two hunderd and fifty pounds). High resolution files are available for publication - please contact me for further details |
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| Hits (today): | 6 |
| Hits (this week): | 121 |
| Hits (this month): | 121 |
| Hits (this year): | 4691 |
| Hits (all-time): | 27395 |
| Collections: | 10 |
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| Location: | Ironbridge, Shropshire |
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