A soft focus portrait of Paul standing by the lineside in New South Wales.

Paul was born in Stone in Staffordshire but spent most of his early years living in London, before moving to Lytham St. Annes in 1956. It was here in association with a small group of close friends that he developed his interest in railway photography. In the early 1960s he became involved with MNA activities resulting in a significant contribution to the NEVER AGAIN series of books.

Pauls interests, like other members of that group, extended to railways far beyond the UK shores; and it is this area of his activities which is portrayed here, his UK images having been donated to the Kidderminster Railway Museum.

Following the end of BR steam operations in 1968, Paul first went to Australia spending some time photographing the final steam operations on New South Wales Government Railways and railtour operations both there and in Victoria.

Super power - a pair of class AD60 4-8-4+4-8-4 Garratts head a loaded coal train up the 1 in 40 of Fassifern bank on the Gosford to Newcastle line.

Shades of the Great Central on the other side of the world, one of the former Railway Operating Division 2-8-0s built at Gorton heads a coal train on the Richmond Vale Railway at Hexham NSW

He then moved on the South Africa where steam locomotive operations had longer to run. Here he spent much time working on the lines from Bloemfontein to Bethlehem and Kimberley as well as visiting other areas of the country.

In Natal a 2ft gauge class NGG16 Garratt heads a train of empty timber wagons along the dual gauge track north of Donnybrook before turning away on its own formation eastwards towards Ixopo.

Also in Natal ex Rhodesian Railways 16th class 2-8-2+2-8-2 Garratt number 618 heads a train of coal on the system at Enyati Colliery.

A view of a class 19D 4-8-2 departing Sannaspos on a freight to Aliwal North taken from the the tender of a locomotive heading a Bloemfontein bound train.

He also paid a brief visit to India taking a small number of photographs on both broad and metre gauge lines.

Broad gauge class WP 4-6-2 number 7473 heads train 64, the Nagpur to Kolhapur passenger through a remote passing loop north of Miraj on the line from Pune.

Metre gauge class YP 4-6-2 number 2799 built by Telco in 1969 heads the Bangalore to Miraj passenger departing Bangalore City.