Fake Snow!
Cold Front End Friday. Lizzie & Theresa, are at some remote pretty place in the easterly flatlands even more nowhere than Central Bedfordshire, as they watch the arrival of the morning goods. Being...
View ArticleFreezing Fog
A foggy snowy morning at Windmill Sidings. It looks like the crew of the engine have let the fire go out, so somebody will be in trouble. Though due to the weather, the crew who’ve been taking shelter...
View ArticleTrigger Alert
From time to time I’m contacted by you my loyal viewers/readers about what Brew Street is like in the present day. **BEWARE, this post is mildly political, so I’m issuing a ‘Trigger Alert’ for those...
View ArticleIndustrial Action
No trains are running today, but nothing stops our inch high champions putting Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe’s Triumph Roadster up on a few ale casks before downing tools and heading for the pub.
View ArticleDr Loo
Today the little people are shooting a new science fiction drama for the LBBC (Little British Broadcasting Corporation), it’s to be called Dr Loo. It’s mostly based around a urine smelling public...
View ArticleAnother Front End Friday #FEF
Front End Friday #FEF, I’m not quite sure why and if it’s really a thing, but I gather it started in the Twittersphere by some of the more hashtag aware toy train nuts. I’m sure some of you will be...
View ArticleBill & Ted’s Big Adventure
Saturday morning at the colliery deep in The Forest of Dean. And as usual the weekly ballast train from the nearby quarry arrives to run around its load before heading back to the junction at Lydney....
View ArticleFun Loving Rufus
Rufus Hound is a fun loving playful doggy, and once he’s off his lead, is brilliant at evading capture. Here is the bouncy little fella winding up Farmer George and Neil in the crossing keeper’s...
View ArticleChristmas Tree Arrival
It’s not monochrome Monday, because as a special treat on this dull wet and windy morning as I type this in Little Britain, I’ve found an old 49p coin to pop in to the colour meter. Local fuzz, former...
View ArticleBurton Snatch
Happy winter solstice, or summer if you’re from down under. I couldn’t find a suitable winter solstice pic for today, so here we are on a lovely summer solstice day in the land of the inch high....
View ArticleCrotch Fug
It’s, ‘The Front’s at the Other End Friday’ aka #FATOEF init. It’s mid September and autumn is well and truly underway, as an unidentified Class 3 tank engine departs Combwich with the 10.05am service...
View ArticleGeorge 💕 Deidre
It’s Christmas Eve, and like in all the movies, it’s snowing with many of our favourites having come out to watch the morning goods trundle through before they all head to the pub. What’s so special...
View ArticleBoxing Day Races
It’s Boxing Day in the land of the inch high, and as is the norm, there is the annual race pulling a train with a tractor. And because it’s like Christmas in the movies, snow is everywhere of course,...
View ArticleTime Warp Tuesday
Time warp Tuesday, you’ve seen this one before I’m sure. Some remember these times fondly, especially and those with really bad looking teeth. And of course toilet paper hoarders who collected the...
View ArticleThe Pines Express
It’s a blustery showery Wednesday, as the heavy north bound Pines Express heads back to the grim north from Bournemouth West, its load of holiday makers being slightly downbeat as they return to toil...
View ArticleGradients & Gongoozlers
Thursday morning at the colliery, and the locomotive has just been sent down the wrong road by Dudley who’s on his damn notebook again and Deliberation Dave - both of who aren’t paying attention,...
View ArticleGeorge & George
It’s Friday, and the moonshiner collective formed of Deidre, Terry, Rufus Hound, Shamus and Barry are off to Shepton Mallet for a day out visiting various pubs on route to hopefully strike up sales of...
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