AN IMAGINARY railway adventure is set to depart from Queen Street Mill (QSM) in Harle Syke, Burnley next month.

From Rose Grove to Darjeeling is an exhibition of black-and-white photographs taken by local photographer, designer and steam enthusiast Stuart James.

Although the photographs are arranged to form an imaginary journey, they record actual train journeys that Stuart made over a period of 30 years from the 1960s to the 1990s.

The journey starts from the Rose Grove engine shed in Burnley, and passes through Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria and Turkey, before moving on to Nepal, Pakistan and India, with Darjeeling as the final destination.

Vanessa Bedford, Lancashire County Council's museum manager at QSM, said: "This selection of 116 wonderful photographs was taken on series of journeys around Britain, Europe and the Indian sub-continent when he was a young man with a rucksack out to see the world.

"It's amazing to think that many of these journeys were made at a time when steam trains were so commonplace worldwide, they earned barely a glance from passers-by."

The exhibition is on from July 6 until 28 November. Admission is £3. Accompanied children and Burnley residents go free.