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The objective is to photograph the construction of the entire railway from green field site to first train, the work, the people and the surrounding areas, be that in the country or town. The duration of the Project is expected to be 18 years, from 1989 to 2007 and involves taking many thousands of photographs and making a collection of documents, drawings and maps acquired during the years and used to aid planning and referencing.

Test Boring Rig - River Medway - June 1994

A complete set of high detail route drawings supplied by Union Railways is used to locate fixed points from which many photographs are being taken. This is producing a series of shots at each location showing before, during and after.

 

High quality photographs, mainly transparencies (slides), are produced using FUJI Professional film. They are mainly on 120 medium format film and square, being 6cm x 6cm. Medium format equipment includes Yashica 124G, Yashica 24, and MPP Microcord cameras.

Boxley Village from Pilgrims Way, June 1999

Large format (5" x 4") work is done on a MPP Mk VII MicroTechnical camera fitted with a Schnieder Xenar 180mm lens. Minature (35mm) images are from a Pentax K1000 and Centon K100 cameras and a range of lens. A decision was made to go 'digital' in 2002 with the purchase of a Minolta Dimage7 camera. Resolution of this camera is 5.2 mega Pixels, producing file sizes of around 14 megabytes in .tiff format. In 2004 another digital camera was added to the stable, this time a FUJI S7000.

Some use is made of colour negative material in all formats. Again this is all FUJI Professional film stock. Monochrome film used is of various makes. All colour film is processed by professional photo finishers, whilst monochrome stock is processed and printed in my own darkroom.

A range of filters, adaptors, holders and viewfinder scales has been designed to fit across the range of cameras used, many of the items having been specially made for this Project.

Constructing the first Coffer Dam (Common Marsh) Medway Crossing

June 1999

Constructing the second Coffer Dam (Factory Farm) Medway Crossing

November 1999

The completed crossing - January 2003

July 2003

The Channel Tunnel Rail Link Photographic Project has been featured on BBC Television, Meridian Television, BBC Radio Kent as well as in several Newspapers.

Bridge construction across A227 road near Gravesend - November 1999

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