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Mark Pike Author

Mark Pike has a lifelong interest in UK�railways that started at the age of about six when his father used�to take him to watch trains at Poole station in Dorset, just after�steam had been abolished in the late 1960s. He later joined the�railway at the age of 19 as a permanent way trackman at�Bournemouth and was later an electric track maintenance�worker at Dorchester for over 20 years. Now semi-retired, he is�still an avid railway photographer, with various images�appearing regularly in mainstream railway magazines and�books.