Benjamin Boggis
Welcome to my website

I am a young adult living in a market town in rural Norfolk. I am currently working in reprographics and text origination. My interests are quite varied, I enjoy all kinds of music, follow formula 1 motor racing and collect and build O gauge locomotives and rolling stock.

Part of my work involves image manipulation using computers and professional scanning equipment, this enhances one of my other past times, photography (which I’m having great success with since I’ve switched to digital back in 2002). My main interests though are in railways (hence the theme of my website).

The word "railways" as a general term, which covers a huge spectrum world wide. Although many aspects of British railways interests me, my particular interests lie closer to home, in the history of the railways that once linked the towns and villages of Norfolk. I was born and brought up in Norfolk, as were my parents, my mother was born and brought up in Melton Constable, and who's Grandfather worked on the railway as a guard. My father has no family link to railways, but is a railway enthusiast like myself and takes both photos and video. Together we enjoy visits to preserved railways to experience the atmosphere of that bygone age (and of course take some pictures and video too!).

Since launching my website in 2002, I've had the pleasure to making many new friends, not least at "my local" – North Norfolk Railway. Rather inevitably, this lead to me become a volunteer, after deciding that it was time that I rediscovered my boyhood dream to become an engine driver. I have made many more new friends since, and the only regret I have is that I hadn't started sooner! My free time is now split between snapping at the lineside and shoveling coal on the footplate.

Hope you enjoy the website, happy surfing!
Ben

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