Prints of Steam Locomotives and Steam Railways

Are you looking for that special present for the steam engine enthusiast in your life?

At David Dawson Photography we offer for sale, exclusively through this web site, large and medium sized prints of David's photographs of steam locomotives taken over the last quarter of a century on Britain's main lines and preserved railways.

All prints are hand printed on to heavy weight silver gelatine photographic paper in our traditional darkroom.

If you are looking for that very special present take a look at our picture gallery pages. The pictures featured will make ideal birthday, Christmas, anniversary, or retirement presents.

We also sell copies of David's latest book which features some of the pictures shown in the gallery pages of this web site.

Stop Press - just published

Steam on Shed - a collection of David's pictures taken round the steam loco sheds of Britain over the last thirty years.

David's latest work involves taking his pictures with vintage cameras that were around when these steam locomotives were in service on Britain's Railways. He is currently using Voigtlander rangefinders for 35mm work and Zeiss Icon's and Agfa Isolette's for his medium format negatives. David's pride and joy is a Zeiss Icon folding camera made in Dresden in 1938, which makes 6cm x 9cm negatives. The factory was destroyed in the wartime bombing of Dresden so this camera is a real piece of history. It is also older than some of the steam locomotives David photographs with it!

Steam Locomotives and Steam trains have been a passion of ours for over 30 years. We have extensive picture files covering British private steam railways and main line steam runs over the last quarter of a century. We are active photographers and will be adding to our collection of images on a regular basis.

We are members of the Keighley and Worth Valley railway, Severn Valley railway, and North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and are also frequent visitors to the East Lancs railway among others, and so have an extensive collection of photographs taken on these preserved lines.

Please email us at images@daviddawsonphotography.co.uk with your image search requirements if you cannot find the picture you are looking for on the web site, to enable us to search for suitable images in our files.

We can also process and print from your own colour or black and white films, scan your negatives and slides, and print to our exacting standards. We still produce 'real' black and white prints in a traditional darkroom. Visit our Cheshire Photo Lab web site for further details.

We also exhibit other images from our collection on

All images featured are copyright David Dawson Photography.