good girls

Liskeard (Looe Branch platform - copyright Abby Hitchins)

Blackpool 15.10.2011 (Both copyright Danielle Hitchins)

FACEBOOK - THE RAIL THING

Nice to see I'm starting to have an influence on my two stepdaughters! They've both posted rail shots to Facebook today, and both from locations I've visited and photographed.

Liskeard looks hardly different from when I photographed it back in 1972, though the mock WR sign is a new feature. And Blackpool is, at last, starting to update its tram fleet with some fantastic new vehicles, which I believe they're going to roll out a couplke a month.

this is the rail thing

I've been thinking about starting a general rail blog for a long time, mainly to showcase the photos I've built up over the last 39 years!

Many of you will know me from the New Somerset and Dorset Railway, where I'm currently Chair.

Expect an irreverent, iconoclastic and surprising blog that will take you to places you never knew existed, that will challenge both the public's and rail enthusiast's views of themselves and, hopefully, provide a really fun and interesting read!

The journey starts tomorrow!