Introduction

30 years of photography

Welcome to my website. This site contains a selection of pictures, both general scenes from my collection covering the last thirty years, as well as folk music photography from the Cotswold Canal's excellent Saul Canal Festival, and a selection of Infrared pictures. I hope you enjoy browsing through these pictures, and you may also be interested in my other websites listed below. In addition to this the homepage will feature one of the postcards that I am currently selling on Ebay. Please click the link to see the full range.

If you would like to use any of the pictures featured, please contact me. Higher resolution versions are available for publication.

This website has been designed to be viewed at 1024 x 768 and above.

All images © copyright 1978 - 2008 Martin Loader.

 

A pictorial history of the former Great Western Railway branch line running from Oxford through the Upper Thames Valley to the small Cotswold market town of Fairford. Built by the Witney Railway Company and the East Gloucestershire Railway Company in the mid nineteenth century, the line survived until 1970. This website contains many unique photos, and much new data gleaned from recent research.

Hondawanderer.com is devoted to quality Railway Photography. Having traveled the country extensively over the last thirty years photographing the railway scene, I have managed to amass a fair collection of railway images, despite the vagaries of the British weather! As time permits a selection of these will be scanned and uploaded to the site. Mostly classic diesel, but also a little steam from time to time! 

Vanguard Publications publish the acclaimed Photo File series of railway books. These pictorial A5 books uniquely picture each member of the selected class, ideal for modellers. A brief history of each class is included along with a fleet history which includes dates to traffic, renumberings and namings. Also available is Diesels in the Cotswolds, a pictorial book covering the period 1982 - 1996.