Bradley Langton

Bradley Langton was the winner of the first Young Railway Photographer of the Year (YRPOTY) competition in 2022 and subsequently served as a member of the RPS until autumn 2025.

He is a young keen railway photographer focusing on the railway scene as a whole, past, present or future; he was born in Bridlington and grew up in Driffield until the age of 21, buying his first camcorder in 2014 believing videography was what he wanted to do in order to capture and record the railway for Youtube. Laterly realising that he took more photos on it than videos, he recieved my first photographic camera for christmas in 2016 which was a Fujifilm Bridge camera, followed by a Nikon D3300 DSLR in the following christmas and it wasn’t until he came across Abdobe lightrooms and experienced the power of editing that he knew it was what he wanted to do. He left college in 2019 and began his working career on the railway in 2020 with Northern, which allowed him to save and buy the Nikon D750 full frame camera which has been his camera of choice since then.

Bradley likes to try capture everything, the railway scene is constantly changing and he refuses to look back in the coming years wishing he had captured more. As well as this he has a passion for steam photography, and even though he is too young to have experienced steam in it’s heyday, he is always on the look out to use his imagination and bring history alive once again at every opportunity. In 2023, he moved into his own place in Blackburn which allowed him to progress in his railway career, and he is now conviently located on the route to the Settle & Carlisle line, and Carnforth test circle, giving access to mainline steam far more than ever before. When looking at his photography, you will find that he use an array of photographic techniques and camera settings, and he never likes to take the same photo twice, and is always looking to put his own spin on images; you can see some of his results above, and to see more, please see his social media pages where he is most active; www.facebook.com/langtonphotography and www.instagram.com/langtonphotography_brad

The image in Bradley’s gallery showing an Azuma crossing the Forth Bridge was taken during a visit organised by Network Rail as a part of the prize for winning YRPOTY.

Bradley Langton, August 2023

All images in this gallery © Bradley Langton