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Updated 15th May. Another large batch of new views added. Reinstated slide offer closing soon. Collections wanted.
Our re-introduced slide offer will close on 15th June. For details send an e-mail or SAE. You can also have Ron's dustbin list of withdrawn and secondhand slides in the same way, slides from 60p. Another large selection of images were uploaded on 15th May. Many of these are of mixed classes of engine or steam/diesel/combinations. Search in Steam, refs 1500-1670. There are also rare pictures of West Highland steam in the 1930s and more pictures for modern traction modellers. Our latest catalogue, 20, remains available at £10 where you will find details of all the slides that are to be withdrawn in September, and our book A Colour-Rail Journey at just £25. If you want an image of a specific loco or location, and you can't find it, drop us a mail and we will check our files to see if we have something in the cupboard! We are always interested in expanding the collection. If you, or someone you know, has slides or black & white negatives that are literally gathering dust, and you would like to find them a good home, then please contact us. Collections are regularly being lost to deterioration or the bin man- save yours before it is too late.
Welcome to Colour-Rail - the site for archive transport photographs

Colour-Rail is the premiere source of high quality images of road and railway transport, available in a range of formats including online downloads, high quality photographic prints, duplicate slides and in large format pictures for gifts. Our photos depict steam, diesel and electric trains and locomotives as well as buses, trams and trolleybuses in both colour and black & white, from 1900 to the present day.

Our excellent search facility will help you to find photographs of stations, signal boxes, tunnels and bridges as well as glimpses of contemporary cars and fashions that make so many of the photographs a priceless record of times gone by. Even the industrial railway scene is recorded in a number of pictures.

Highlights

Our British Railways Steam, Modern Traction and Bus & Tram pictures offer an unrivalled selection for you to choose from. If you are looking for something from overseas visit our Non-UK rail section. As well as slides, prints and downloads there is our collection of Art Pictures for that special picture to hang on the wall or give as a gift to a friend. If you are tired of pictures then visit our Books and Catalogues section.

Ordering

You can use our category search facility to preview the majority of our images:

UK Steam Pictures of steam locomotives on the British Railways system throughout the country.
Modern Traction Photographs of British Railways diesel and electric traction from the first railcars to the present day. Included are BR prototype engines, service department locomotives along with DMU and EMU traction.
UK Railways - Other,
Infrastructure &
Miscellaneous
Includes all the pictures that do not feature a specific locomotive. Thus there are photographs of sheds, stations, signal boxes, infrastructure, carriages, industrial railways and anything else that does not have an identifiable locomotive in the picture. There are many photographs that depict the vehicles and fashions of the day which happened to be in the view at the time.
Railways (Non UK) &
Miscellaneous views
Photographs of Non-UK Railways. You will also find here many fascinating pictures depicting the social history of the UK and around the world such as street scenes from 50 years ago.
Buses & Trams Here you will find pictures of buses and trams, as well as London trolleybuses from the early 1950’s onwards. Like the miscellaneous railway pictures, contemporary cars and fashions feature in many of the photographs.
Art Pictures Looking for a gift or just a picture to hang on the wall? Our Art Pictures offer a selection of views to suit all tastes.
Books & Catalogues A range of books and catalogues

You can also order Catalogues and Supplements.

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well, actually nowhere, our next show will be in September