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Welcome to the Siding
The Siding is a collection of British railway photos which I have put on this site in the hope that they might be of interest to others.
The pictures
I make no apologies for the fact that the majority of the pictures on this site are of the type scorned upon by certain 'real photographers'.
That is they are mostly simple ¾ view pictures of trains, rather than pictures of trains taken from arty viewpoints or pictures of trains
in pretty surroundings. That's not to say that I don't like scenic shots. Indeed you will find links to sites containing many such pictures on my
links page.
Most of my pictures are simply pictures of trains, illustrating many of the classes, variations and liveries seen on British railways.
The pictures taken in the seventies and eighties are scans of prints, transparencies or negatives, a process which hasn't been
entirely successful. I am attempting to improve on the worst of these as and when I get the time. All other pictures are digital images, resized and compressed using Paintshop Pro.
If there is a particular picture you would like to see with less compression and in it's full resolution please contact me.
All photos were taken by myself except where noted under the picture. If you have any good
photos, especially any showing liveries or classes which I currently don't have, and would
not mind me using them on the site, please let me know.
JPEG effects
The following pics show the effects of different amounts of jpeg compression.
Presentation
The site was designed to look best at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or higher although it looks reasonable at 800 x 600. Despite validating all the pages as being valid XHTML I spent quite a while tweaking the
HTML and style sheets in an attempt to make the site look the same in all the main browsers, (so much for standards and
compliance!). I've tested it using current and recent versions of MS Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera, all under Windows.
Whatever you might be using please let me know of any problems mentioning which browser and OS you are using.
Copyright
All photos are the copyright of the-siding.co.uk except where the name of the photographer is given under the picture. In
these cases the copyright remains with the named photographer.
I don't really mind you using the odd one or two of my own pictures on your own site should you wish to do so providing that:
1: you acknowledge 'the-siding.co.uk' as being the source,
2: you let me know where they are being used, and
3: they are copied into your own web space and NOT hot-linked directly to the site.
Please do not attempt to link direct to the images on this site, you may not get the picture you expect. Feel free of course to link to
pages on the site, it is just the hot linking direct to images that I object to for the usual reasons. Unfortunately the
method used to prevent this 'hot linking' also affects text links to images, so again please link to the page and not direct to the image.
Contact me
Please contact me with any comments, criticisms or suggestions you may have about the site. I really would appreciate hearing
from you.
Finally - thanks for bothering to read this far!
Frank Cox
© 2003-2008 the-siding.co.uk
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