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Image is an enlargement from a photo taken in the Stygian depths of St James on the Tyne & Wear Metro, hand held on my Nikon D7200 with 20mm prime lens, so fast aperture. Is everything I expect from a DSLR with a prime lens, as despite the challenging lighting conditions, crisp image with...

In proof that some deity has it in for me, travelling Birmingham to Morpeth this Saturday, and to avoid the RRB south of York booked Birmingham to Carlisle than onwards to Morpeth, only for this to become problematic on how quickly the WCML reopens. Am playing with the idea of Preston >...

My brother has set his heart on the DJH O gauge class 47 kit for his 60th birthday ... going to model the loco he passed out on as a driver back in the day. However, am getting mixed messages on whether DJH is still trading and availability. Is anybody able to help please.

Terms for the all line rail rover state it is, "NOT valid for boarding or alighting train services ... before 10:00 Mondays to Fridays at ... London Euston". Now I read that as actually alighting at Euston, so it would be acceptable for me to join the 0715 from Manchester Piccadilly (Euston...

Promised myself an all line rover once I turn 60 … senior citizen card and first class. Anyway, that is next year. Undecided whether to fill missing gaps in my Baker, which will be impossible in a week, revisit places as memory lane, which is certain to stack up disappointment (I mean, Penzance...

In olden days we grew up with prime. Now we all have zoom, yet if for some reason your zoom got stuck at one focal length (and this did happen to me many years ago ... clumsy camera drop moment) and you had no backup, out of interest which prime equivalent focal length could you live with? And why?

Am sure there are as many opinions on this as there are photographers. Nevertheless ... For my more creative photography still using film with my venerable Nikon plus a collection of quite decent primes and latterly scanning the better images as TIFF output. However, dipping my toe into...

This month’s Railway Magazine states that there are records of class 50’s working over the Waverley Line before closure. Any details?

Gather, from a video on Facebook, there was a serious fire (‘explosion’) on a Merseyrail unit this morning. Do not have any details or corroboration.