Watercress Line

Portrait series specially selected for inclusion in Graphis Photo.
On my travels around the country I’d discovered a preserved railway line in Hampshire called the Watercress Line. Run totally by volunteers, they have many original steam engines and carriages that they run on a schedule at certain times of the year. The stations and ticket halls are all original and some still have the lighting working by gas.

I wanted to create some portraits of the people that worked on the line with each one placed against a backdrop reflecting the part they played in preserving the railway.

These are three of the shots I produced and which were specially selected for inclusion in this edition of Graphis Photography, shown here beautifully reproduced in the book.