John Law moved to South East London in 1970 and joined British Rail four
years later. Starting at the lowest grade, he soon became a guard at
Grove Park and then moved to Victoria, where he often worked the boat
trains and the prestigious British Pullmans of the Venice Simplon Orient
Express. Moving through the grades, he worked at London Bridge and other
stations in the central area of the capital. In later years he became a
site manager with Network Rail, before retiring in 2009.During all those
years, he carried a camera and took photographs of the railways of Kent,
East Sussex and South East London. He was able to capture views from
locations that were inaccessible to the general public, building up a
huge collection of images showing the variety of rolling stock,
signalling and the changing scene of those years.