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Saturday Shimmy
Driver ‘Double Denim’ Dando, West of England Cider Festival Dance Champion regular runner up 1948-1955, that’s him with the red neckerchief is having a little shimmy - any excuse for a shimmy. Though...
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Dodgy Leg
Arthritic Arthur, has never been too organised, always leaving it to the last minute, especially when heading for the train to get to Highbridge Shed. But with age, something that effects all of us,...
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Telephoto Tuesday
Telephoto TuesdayDouble Denim Dando as we know loves a shimmy, but today he’s wearing his tap dancing shoes, to make a clicketty clack sound in time with wheels over rail joints as Driver Andrew...
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Parked Up The Rear
Front End Friday #FEFDeliberation Dave watches Driver Andrew bring his Barclay built engine down the 1 in 20 grade out of the colliery. With full wagons it can be quite exciting watching the move as...
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Meet Waving Willy
Down at the docks, and management are keen to get more people to use the train which runs from the middle of nowhere to the edge of nowhere and all points of nowhereness in between. Brew Street Halt,...
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You Can’t Do That….
On Sundays down by the canal, Doug and Dave love to ride ‘hands free’ on the locomotive veranda and speed past PC Rob Banks. The driver of the loco crouching down to give the impression of a driverless...
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iPhone 14 pro in mono mode
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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Trainspotting Dog
Here we are at Whitby, and the little chap hasn’t seen a steam loco for some time. He’s pretty gung ho about most things, but simply stood mesmerised whilst looking and listening to the hot steamy...
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Just Stop Soil
Bob Geeza Cat is a well known activist in the feline ‘Just Stop Soil’ pressure group, a campaign started a few years ago by posh pedigree cats to stop their owners using garden soil as cat litter....
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Monochrome Monday
Monochrome Monday again, and because the colour meter isn’t topped up until Tuesday morning, today as with most Mondays will be presented in black and white. As Peter Peckett trundles by with a couple...
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Repurposed Coal Hopper
Narrow gauge loco ‘Tiddles’ reverses its train of tipper wagons carrying iron ore up to the loading elevator hopper. The little loco and train will require several return runs to fill the standard...
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WTF Thursday
It’s #WTFthursday, formerly known as #titfieldthunderboltthursdayEver since the arrival of the smug virtue signalling do-gooder blue engine on the scene, the loco crew have been getting increasingly...
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New Rapido Trains 6 Wheeled SECR Brake Vans
Saturday morning down at the docks and a train of brake vans has arrived all the way from somewhere in Kent, not far from that there London. It’s going to be used for an enthusiasts’ ‘Brake Van...
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Three Years Ago
Commemorating the toilet roll fights of three years ago much enjoyed in Little England during the Zombie Apocalypse of Doom £ovid era, Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe is exploring yet another business...
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Fully Detailed Interior
A little earlier, the little people from the land of the inch high were very keen to see the inside of that new fangled 6 wheeled SE&CR brakevan from those there snazzy folk at Rapido Trains UK....
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The Aldershot Grunt
Wednesday morning at Moorewood Colliery high up in the Mendip Hills Derek & Clive are looking at the motley collection of 2ft 3 inch gauge tipper wagons used for transporting the coal from the...
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WTF Thursday
It’s #WTFthursday, formerly known as #titfieldthunderboltthursdayToday marks the inaugural run of a brand new service. It’s aimed at those who wish it was the year 1883, but want to enjoy 125 mph...
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Clive’s Notebook
Colin is going through his notebook trying to find something he wrote 9 months ago. He’s been paging backwards and forwards for the last 10 minutes. “I’m sure it’s in here, I only saw it the other day...
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Chasing the Rainbow
It’s Saturday morning, and ‘the chaps’ have been caught speeding again. ’But we’re chasing the rainbow’ doesn’t really cut it with PC Rob Banks and PC Nick Gold. Quite conveniently for the law, the...
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Then & Now
53809 crossing over the B3110 next to the Hope & Anchor at Midford.It’s a composite of a shot of of the real location taken in 2011 and a Bachmann SDJR 7F. The photo here being the result of 20...
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