FROM the Beatles' Abbey Road pedestrian crossing to Nirvana's underwater baby, inventive and artistic album covers will forever be remembered by generations of music fans.

And a Cheltenham jazz and blues band hopes its new cover will be as popular to Cheltenham audiences and music-lovers.

The Indigo Kings joined forces with the Cheltenham Camera Club's studio group and the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway to create their new black and white album cover.

The band's seven members jumped on board a picturesque steam train on a grey Sunday afternoon in December for the promotional pictures for their album Against A Brick Wall.

Band bassist, Carl Brassington, said "This has been a fantastic opportunity for The Indigo Kings.

"The music and styling of the band is quite vintage, so the old steam trains made for the perfect backdrop."

Ian Crowder, driver and spokesman for the railway said the station had been previously used as a background for fashion shoots.

He said: "A lot of people were really interested in what was going on and some even recognised the band.

"It is great to have local organisations like this working together to create something really special within a community.

"It has created a fantastic mix of the town's culture and history."