I am a volunteer on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway in Cumbria, which runs for seven miles up Miterdale and Eskdale in the English Lake District. I live in the area and have volunteered on the railway very regularly since May 2006. A photo album in the form of a journal of my work is available at http://cumbria.fotopic.net

I am also interested in the main line railway scene of Cumbria, including the Cumbrian Coast line through Ravenglass. You can also find photos of Northern Rail, Direct Rail Services and West Coast Railways' trains at the above link.

This site was set up in January 2006 in order to showcase my fiction about the railways of Cumbria and their engines, a series which I started in Autumn 2004. In all, I wrote fifteen volumes of four stories each about Cumbrian engines, with a supplementary 20 story series about a fictional preserved railway in the region. Two feature-length Christmas specials have also been written, along with a short novel featuring the loco fleets from both series.

I am currently working on an OO gauge model railway. The original plan was that the layout was to be of Ffarquhar station, also known as the home of Thomas the Tank Engine, on the Island of Sodor. The current plan is that the layout will be of the R&ER's Dalegarth terminus, but with a twist - in standard gauge. My OO gauge loco stud also includes several characters from my stories, namely City of Carlisle, Calder Hall Power Station and Scafell Pike.