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Monochrome Monday
Monday morning at Combwich, and 53809 simmers in the siding next to The Star after a weekend ballasting job. The loco and crew should have returned to Evercreech to drop the ballast hoppers off and...
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Multitasking
It’s Tuesday morning at Brew Street, as as usual there is the usual discussion as to who does what - with multitasking being very much a feature in the land of the high. You’ll have no doubt noticed...
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The Devon Belle
Front & Rear End Friday, I say….A once in a lifetime achievement photograph as celebrity snapper Ivan Locksmith manages to capture the passing of the up and down Devon Belle, or is it down and up?...
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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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Moaning Minnies
With the current heatwave, formerly known as ‘summery weather’ here in the UK, some of you might like this wintery scene at Fountain Colliery as a reminder of winter. Here in little England we like to...
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Wide View Wednesday
It’s Wide View Wednesday, and as we look across this section of the Somerset Coal Field there is much going on…In the immediate foreground we have part of the Somerset Coal Canal, it never did close...
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#WTFThursday
#WTFthursday Thursday morning at Moorewood Colliery and the eagerly awaited 2ft 3 inch narrow gauge locomotive has finally arrived. It was a bespoke build to the colliery management’s spec. But...
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Line Inspection
Front End Friday #FEFOnce a week the little people do a visual inspection of the line. Derek and Deliberation Dave have taken up key positions on the veranda or whatever it’s called of the diesel...
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A Lovely Summer Day
It’s a lovely summer day in the land of the inch high at Catcott as the 11.05am Templecombe to Highbridge service trundles over the crossing. The train will pause for a moment to allow Arthritic Arthur...
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The Mendip Hills Light Railway
High up on The Mendip Hills Light Railway which runs from nowhere to the edge of nowhere, the little people are trialing their new 2ft 3 inch gauge tourist train imported from that there mainland...
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Summer Storm
Monochrome Monday during an unseasonal downpour in June 1968. Somewhere a little north of Preston, a Black Five 4-6-0 speeds past our intrepid photographer (there with permission I hasten to add). His...
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Grease Guns & Stopcocks
It’s another Thursday down by the canal. Doug, George & Barry are dealing bottles of illicit booze as Andrew & Barclay trundle past with a wagonload of lose unpasteurised air. Pete & Dud...
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Here Comes The Train!
Front end Friday #FEF View through a bridge, as Radstock shed’s ’Pug’ wiggles its way up the grade towards our photographer. The gradient is 1 in 20, so the photographer has plenty of time to move out...
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Saturday Shenanigans
Saturday morning at Combwich. Starting on the left, Barry Bullhead (the time and motion man from the Ministry of Misery) is happily accepting a boozy bribe from Shamus landlord of The Star, in return...
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Wupert & Henwy, Fiddlestick-Chinstrap-Fugg
Monochrome MondayUpper class twits Wupert & Henwy, Fiddlestick-Chinstrap-Fugg have just arrived for their new senior management roles at the colliery. Working in the boarding school tuck shop and...
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Tuesday at Windmill Sidings
Tuesday at Windmill Sidings - in a part of forgotten Norfolk which cannot be found on any maps. It’s first thing, and not a soul is yet to be seen next to the ancient disused windmill, which last saw...
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Polbrook Gurney Colliery Talent Competition
Terry Tuttle Thomas Smythe hosts the very first ‘Polbrook Gurney Colliery Talent Competition’, that’s our favourite smarmy chap stood on the engine announcing the next act. And here we have the The...
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Living Museum
It’s 1996 and Polbrook Gurney Colliery and surrounding area has become a ‘living museum’. Visitors at great expense, can experience a rose tinted view of the ‘good old days’. For this publicity photo...
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Nobody
On the Somerset Levels even in the height of summer it’s frequently foggy first thing, this being due to the very high water table of the boggy land. Here we are at Catcott as the 7.05 am Highbridge to...
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