We've been Nevard....

All change for Low Level and trains to the Exhibition Centre

Ace layout photographer Chris Nevard has spent a day with us photographing New Mills in it's 'back to the sixties' guise for the February edition of Model Rail. We have been invited to back to Model Rail Scotland in February, see http://www.modelrail-scotland.co.uk/ for full details, and, as a major supporter of this excellent show, Model Rail will feature our WCML layout in the late steam / early diesel and electric era ahead of that exhibition.
The results of Chris's work are quite stunning as we have come to expect. Unfortunately the images are embargoed until publication but look out for spine tingling studies of Duchesses hauling the Caledonian, Princesses on the front of the Mid Day Scot,  Black 5s, 8Fs, Clans and Britannias on Anglo Scottish services and inevitably those early blue electrics and Class 40s. Chris's colour work is fabulous but his digital b/w studies really do take you back to the period when monotone was the norm and Trains Illustrated and then Railway World featured the wonderfully atmospheric work of pioneering railway photographers such as Colin Gifford. Their work was labelled the 'New Approach' and captured the decline of steam in a style that mirrored  the poignancy and social relevance of contemporary British films such as Saturday Night and Sunday morning. But I digress ....just look forward to the February issue of Model Rail!