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 prints of David's photographs of steam locomotives taken over the last quarter of a century on Britain's main lines and preserved railways. The prints are offered for sale either framed and mounted, mounted (not framed), or print only.

All prints are printed on 20" X 16", 12" x 16", or 10"x8" heavy weight photographic paper. If you require your picture framing we have a selection of frames and mounts for you to choose from. All prints are hand printed in our traditional darkroom from the original negative.

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.

David is also currently putting together his first collection of steam railway photographs to be published in book form. This will be a collection of his pictures taken on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. The book will be published in the Spring. We will post a preview on this web site, and will also be selling copies from here. Watch this space!

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 ia 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 25 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.

We are launching this web site with a small collection of our images from our picture archives covering the past 25 years, and will be expanding it and developing it as an ongoing project.

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.