Neil Hopcroft

Admittedly I have no immediate plans to release an album, but if I did, this would be in the artwork somewhere.

All around the short loop of track there are teddy bears hiding in the woods or waiting at the station.

There was a small selection of stationary engines. Taken out of their original context and put onto wheels, some of these machine gain a bizarre twitchiness when working.

We went for a steam day at the Audley End Miniature Railway

I noticed a wasp caught in a spider web while trying to escape through the keyhole to get out of our shed.

A picture of our house taken from the middle of the wheat field beyond our garden.

They have some trains running on the short line at Colne Valley Railway, we went on both of these and Nils loved it when he got to sit in the cab with the driver of the Diesel Multiple Unit.

We went to the Colne Valley Railway, where they make the most of a small section of track and single station.

On our last evening in St Ives the town was hit by a storm coming in from the Atlantic. Sadly I couldn’t capture in a photograph the beauty of the sun setting over the mountainous waves.

Artists studios are always photogenic.