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Mice & Men
Saturday morning at Culmstock, ‘Deliberation’ Dave and ‘over and out, Roger have evacuated the locomotive cab due to a mouse being spotted hopping out of the coal bunker. Dave and Roger, despite being...
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Raymond Rabbit
Click to enlarge Raymond Rabbit has just closed the level crossing gates at Culmstock to the road to allow the locomotive through with its short trainload of milk tanks. You’ll have to take my word for...
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New Kit, Old Kit
In gorgeous evening light, posh photographer Ivan Locksmiths can be seen with Terry Tuttle-Thomas Smythe as he records a Stanier 2-6-4 locomotive on the 7.30pm Highbridge to Templecombe service...
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Driverless Cars & Red Flag Willy
Click to enlarge Tram Engine Tuesday. At Windmill Sidings, Red Flag Willy, who’s been waving his flag continuously ever since he was moulded in 1953, warns road traffic users of the arrival of a rather...
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‘That High Vis Fad’
Seen from the relative safely of Culmstock in Devon looking towards the Independent Tax Free Principality Somerset, it’s either storming or one of the many factory sized moonshine plants have gone...
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Just Before The Big Bang
It’s Titfield Thunderbolt Thursday again. The day of the week when something inspired by the much loved cult colour Ealing Comedy from 70 years ago is posted, which of course features our regular...
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Scrap!
Saturday evening at the canal basin. As most Saturdays there is plenty going on, but not often beyond pub opening at 7pm. From left to right…Arthritic Arthur is struggling with a crate of moonshine...
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Beryl’s New Car
Following on from yesterday’s post, it’s now first thing Sunday morning. There has been little progress after the Ruston Bucyrus crane jammed, resulting in Beryl’s old Austin 7 swinging in the air for...
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Monochrome Monday
Monochrome Monday again, and because the colour meter isn’t topped up until Tuesday morning, and because of colour overuse during the week prior, it usually runs out on Sunday night resulting in...
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Foamer or Fanboy?
Foamer Thursday…Yesterday I popped in to the Severn Valley Railway at Bridgnorth, Shropshire and spotted this rebuilt ‘West Country’ class pacific loco outshopped in a livery it would never have...
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Miniatur Wunderland
A snap from a few years ago when I visited Miniatur Wunderland with the Model Rail magazine team. The loco here is Sentinel Number 1, the original pre-production loco for the popular Model Rail mag...
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Ingerland!
Deliberation Dave and Jimmy Hootsmaloots introduce a new shunting engine to Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse. Hubert treating every new engine arrival with suspicion, for when not...
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Unknown Location - Can You Help?
Monochrome Monday again, and because the colour meter isn’t topped up until Tuesday morning at the earliest, and because of colour overuse during the week prior, it usually runs out on Sunday night...
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William Morris
William Morris was a keen photographer. And here is a shot or his new car with Templecombe shed’s 4631 picking up a couple of empty wagons from the small yard at Catcott. Wagon fanciers will notice the...
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Shampoo & Set
A recent photo grabbed from the rear of the former Pedant & Armchair pub showing as 66618 ‘Railways Illustrated’ rumbling through on a cement train. Most the colliery was demolished years ago to...
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The Return of The Tittyfield Thunderbolt
It’s Titfield Thunderbolt Thursday again. The day when something inspired by the much loved cult colour Ealing Comedy from 70 years ago is posted. A few years after the famous whimsical cinema release...
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Why I Very Rarely Exhibit
Front End Friday aka #FEF In the land of the inch high, at Brew Street the irregular passenger service is quite frequently horse drawn, or uses leftover props from Titfield themed and other whimsical...
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Bentley Babe Magnet
It’s a glorious spring evening and Ivan Locksmith is out again accompanied by Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe to witness Wigan shed’s (27D) Stanier 2-6-4 glide past the crossing at Catcott. Regular readers...
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Old-Lady Knickers
It’s May Day here in Little England, so rather than the misery and austerity of Monochrome Monday, the colour meter has been topped up to bring you not one, but 2 shots! Some of you might recall...
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You Can Now Order Prints!
Front End Friday#FEF Somewhere high up in the land of troll, hobbits, whippets and foamy bitter ale, the morning goods reaches the crest of the incline. It’s been a long slog, for even a banking...
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