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Hi, I’m Barry Buckfield, welcome to my new website. I have been photographing steam traction since 1963, the last five years of BR steam across most of the country until that final day on 4th August 1968. From then, I continued to photograph industrial steam in Great Britain until that too declined and disappeared around 1980.
Still determined to seek out ‘real’ steam operations, my first venture abroad was to West Germany in 1970 and again in 1976, to Spain in 1978, then an opportunity to travel to Zimbabwe in 1982 when Garrett power ruled the north lines. 1986/87 saw a venture behind the Iron curtain to East Germany, then due to family and other railway commitments, I retired from steam photography, even in the UK where photographing special trains or heritage railways, held no interest for me.
However in 1999, I went back on the ‘bash’ worldwide, (or as steam operations then permitted), covering China, Poland, Pakistan, Indonesia, Cuba, Germany, Zimbabwe and former Yugoslavia and I am still regularly venturing abroad to this day, still looking for that illusive ‘Master’ shot…... I hope that my work reproduced up here will be of interest to you, your comments will always be welcome.
My aim, as time permits, is to scan and load slides and early black and white photographs to the site, setting up a different gallery for each country. My current cameras are all Canons, using a range of Canon lenses, however, some of the slides prior to 2004, were taken using my trusty 1964 Pentax SV. (I have not yet given in to the digital era !) |
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Born in 1948, my interest in railways grew from around 1955 when I began travelling locally then across Great Britain to see steam traction in everyday use. I was fortunate enough to live near Southampton on the Southern main line to Bournemouth, a main line that did not succumb to modern traction until 1967.
Leaving school at the age of 15, I began an apprenticeship at Eastleigh Locomotive Works in the days of steam, later transferring to the carriage works. 1977 saw a transfer to Bristol to join the team at St Philips Marsh maintaining the new HST fleet. Progression through the grades into privatisation and First Great Western where I now hold a senior management position.
I became involved in railway preservation in 1967 supporting the Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society, later moving on to the formation of the East Somerset Railway where I held the position of Director of Operations for 17 years up to 1996. During my time in the preservation movement, I purchased two steam locomotives, namely Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 saddle tank No. 1398 ‘Lord Fisher’, built in 1915 and LMS Jinty 0-6-0 tank No.47493, built in 1927, which is currently in service on the Spa Valley Railway in Kent.
Reducing my commitment with railway preservation activities in recent years to concentrate on steam photography abroad, I am still involved with a heritage railway carriage restoration business at the East Somerset Railway.
Barry Buckfield
September 2008
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