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Bridge Infill
By 1969, Polbrook Gurney Colliery had closed and been razed to the ground. For those unfamiliar with the location, the colliery used to tower above the corrugated waiting shelter on the left. The halt...
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Spotters
We’ve not seen everyone’s favourite sweaty bus-spotter extraordinaire Nasal Nigel for a while. This is due to him spending time at a des res high up on Dartmoor for a few weeks after one of his regular...
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Just Imagine…
September 1994, and a somewhat more mature Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe and Ivan Locksmith are heading for Highbridge. They no longer drive due to them both losing their licenses due to constant...
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Pond Water
Saturday morning behind The Pedant & Armchair pub. Nothing too unusual going on as Pete & Dud barter over a crate of hooch. Fruit fanciers will notice the huge apples in the tree waiting to...
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Peregrine Pinch
Sunday morning at the colliery. Deep in the Forest and Peregrine Pinch, holidaying lifeguard from Chertsey Meads, eyes up the pannier tank engine bought in at the last moment to replace the more...
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Dizzy Lizzie
Dizzy Lizzie, recently shamed former Prime Minister from the Ministry of Misery, assisted by her loyal playful hound Kamikaze Ken who can bark backwards, starts her new job of crossing keeper....
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Wild Sky Wednesday
Wild Sky Wednesday! ‘Oh don’t you know dear boy’ Ivan Locksmith and local dirty rotten scoundrel & ladies’ man Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe, prepare for another race around the narrow lanes of the...
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Team Building
In deepest Devon, Barry and Dave watch the arrival of coal at the creamery from the safety of the bridge. Today they’re running moonshine laced cider from the nearby independent principality of...
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The Tale of Two Lions
The complex railway network down at the docks is often used for new locomotive trials due to its remote location in the middle of nowhere away from prying eyes. The rough old track and tight curves...
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The Present Day
I was just going through some early construction photos of Polbrook Gurney from before I expanded the layout and added the colliery to the rear and canal basin to the fore.However, this shot could...
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‘Shiners
Deep in the forest, a dull misty 1st of November greets the arrival of the empties at the colliery. There is not a great deal of activity at the mine these days, but it just about breaks even for now....
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Weird & Wacky Wednesday
Weird & Wacky Wednesday. The dull day in the middle of the week, where the weekend still feels just that bit too far away. In today’s load of mid-week weird nonsense, we observe Hubert the...
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Dynamometer Car
Every year in early November, all employees including the shunting horses - even the conversational Latin speaking ones like Hubert here, are given a full health check. In charge of operations, Barry...
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Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes in the UK is mostly about celebrating a chap who sadly didn’t manage to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Only in Little Britain do we celebrate our overloads winning over the little...
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Love Triangle
It’s Saturday morning, and the 10am goods from Highbridge has an unscheduled stop. Passed cleaner, confident Keith, knew that Deidre Dinkle, you know, the much loved flirty darling of the butter...
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Sunday Engineering
It’s a dull and damp November Sunday deep in The Forest. There has been some engineering further down the line, and a ballast train has arrived unusually hauled by a Class 20 to run around its train of...
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Monochrome Monday
Monochrome Monday. A ‘USA’ tank loco trundles past The Kettle, a right old dive of a boozer. It’s known for its weekly ladies’ wasp chewing competition, knuckle sandwiches, snooker ball fights and...
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Competition
Third brother triplets (it’s complicated I know), Comical Ned (with the funny shaped head), former boxer Gaylord Grip, ‘oh my gawd’ Oliver assisted by Deidre Dinkle - flirty darling of the butter...
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Riding the Cushions
Barry Bullhead from The Ministry of Misery and Driver Colin decide to ride the cushions to Highbridge today, despite the offer of a lift from local cad, bounder and ladies’ man Terry...
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