Ivo Peters

Ivo Peters BEM (29 July 1915 – 7 June 1989) was an English railway photographer and filmmaker.

[1] In World War II, and for many years afterwards, he served in the Royal Observer Corps, for which he was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1958.

"[1] From 1959 his black-and-white photography was supplemented by colour 16mm cine film, around 25,000 ft (7,600 m) being exposed on railway subjects (and as much again on aircraft).

[2] Some of the railway material was much later broadcast on BBC Television and transferred to VHS and DVD by Railscene as "The Ivo Peters Collection".

He died in 1989 and his ashes were scattered at Masbury Summit on the Somerset and Dorset line,[2] whilst there is a street in Bath named after him:[6] this road leads across a formerly-operational railway bridge to Green Park Station, the terminus of his beloved Somerset and Dorset Railway.