Phil Marsh joined the railways in 1973 and worked full-time for over 30 years and in 2003, set up his own company offering mainly railway-based consultancy.

This covers operations, commercial bidding, media and PR activities. He was on the staff of The Railway Magazine for 5 years in which time it won 'magazine of the year' and became, and still is, the largest selling railway title in Britain. He enjoyed the title of Chief Correspondent for around a decade and still is a contributor.

He is now on the editorial team of Railnews, the leading rail industry paper and writes and has pictures published on a regular basis for all the other railway trade press.

He edited rail.co.uk for five years and during this media career (including working the picture desk at IPC), which spans over 20 years has had litererally thousands of images published both in print and on-line plus numerous articles.