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Armageddon
It’s a stormy Saturday not far from Armageddon. George on the left is looking after Deidre’s hound Rufus for the day, whilst she’s out seeking new customers for the moonshiner collective she’s a member...
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Old Sad Eyes
Old Sad Eyes D6313 powers a short empty coal train somewhere near Great Wishford on the former GWR Wylye valley route heading for Westury and beyond.
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Still, Thumper Keg, Condenser & Bob
The local fuzz, former investigators of little green men, UFOs and the unexplained, Mouldy & Scullery observe from afar what is quite obviously illicit distilling activity at the rear of The Pedant...
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Race!
Here we are at the colliery deep in The Forest of Dean, as Harry Hi-vis prepares to cue the start of the weekly race to the end of the yard. The winner being the loco, crew and train that make it to...
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End of the Rainbow
Former ministers of the Partygate Party, Dizzy Lizzie and Awkward Teresa, after following the rainbow for quite some time across The Somerset Levels, finally find the moonshine store they’ve been...
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Parallel Universe
It’s Friday morning, as photographer Ivan Locksmith and Barry Bullhead watch the new Bath service from Frome via Chilcompton pass through. Don’t as too many questions, the service is all rather complex...
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Murder on the Rail Replacement Bus Service
Few know that Barry Bullhead & Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe also run an events business, mostly as another outlet to flog their illicit booze. It also works as a back up business should the less...
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Don’t Look Up!
Might this be the end of Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe’s illicit moonshine business? As we can see, our dashing, but loveable business and ladies’ man has been trapped by former investigators of little...
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Retro Wide Angle Wednesday
Retro Wide Angle Wednesday Traditional film fits in quite well with the digital age. And indeed in more recent years has started to a make a comeback with the keen hobbyist photographer. Quality film...
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Pub Snacks
Sid Ding, yard foreman and part time exotic takeaway owner, waves off the departure of the morning goods. To the right, as always, it’s the end of Harry The Hammer’s shift. He and Hubert the...
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Special Blend
Front end Friday again…The cleaners at the local engine shed appear to have done a wonderful job with those oily rags on Number 5. Photographic royalty ‘Oh dear boy’ Ivan Locksmith, is unusually...
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Moonshine Express
It’s Saturday morning deep in The Forest of Dean, and the inaugural ‘Moonshine Express’ has arrived at platform 0.5 which unofficially serves the Miners Arms. Passengers will be able to watch the...
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The Rail Tour
It’s a lovely day at Combwich for the annual SLS (Slow Locomotive Society) photographic rail tour of the former Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway network - also fondly referred to as ‘The Slow &...
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S&DJR 7F in Gloucestershire & North Norfolk
Occasionally former S&DJR 7F 2-8-0 freight locomotives would venture beyond the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway network. At Cement Quay on the edge Severn in nearby Gloucester, 53809 of Bath...
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Bish, Bash, Bosh
As usual it’s the end of Harry the Hammer’s shift. He’s been working at the Hemyock creamery fixing the winch used to haul the milk tanks wagons across the road into the dairy complex. It was a...
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Remote Control
It’s Front End Friday aka #FEF again. Dudley and Deliberation Dave watch the little locomotive potter in and out of the colliery pulling and pushing wagons to and from the canal coal wharf just out of...
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Lamps, Flies & Trouser Snakes
Saturday at Combwich. Dud and Deliberation Dave prior to hopping back on their loco, confirm that their flies (zipper for my colonial followers) are done up before then checking out each other’s...
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Supersized Silly Sunday
It’s that loco again, which somehow or other has crossed the Atlantic and appeared deep in The Forest of Dean at the sidings of a little known colliery. Many of our regulars have left the comfort of...
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Before Colour Was Invented
Monochrome Monday (almost). In the UK before colour was invented in 1954 at the end of wartime food rationing, unless you were American or an abstract artist, you could most likely only see in...
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