IT’S early on Saturday, October 29 and it’s cold as I travel by train to Didcot. Upon arrival at the entrance gate to Didcot Railway Centre, I am met with the familiar warm welcome by the Great Western Society’s (GWS) staff and volunteers.
I am here to represent The RM and report on a day’s tutorial by award-winning photographer Jack Boskett for Gwion Clark who won the Railway Photographic Society Special Award in the Young Railway Photographer of the Year (which I’d helped judge). Gwion’s prize was sponsored by The RM publisher Mortons Media Group, as well as by Jack, a top photographer with a stunning and growing portfolio of images.
In the weeks running up to the day at Didcot, Gwion and I had been in communication, and I had established that he was a fellow Welsh speaker – so when we finally met in person at Didcot, we naturally greeted each other in our first language, Welsh.
A down to earth
