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Fabulous Friday
Front End Friday aka #FEF It’s not generally known that the Highbridge line closed for a week in the early 1950s. This was due to an administrative error at HQ in that there London due to some...
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The Annual Cat Leap!
Here we are at Catcott crossing again, and as is the norm for the last Saturday of July, it’s the annual event of watching Bob Geeza Cat leap on to the footplate of the passing 10.32am Highbridge Docks...
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Grease Nipples & Ball Joints
Sunday on Combwich shed. There is little action as 41248 sits silently next to the water tower waiting to be steamed up overnight in preparation for the Monday service. Alfred and Mutley standing next...
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Monochrome Monday
Monochrome MondayHere we are at Combwich, and the Highbridge and Bridgwater trains are both timed to depart within 2 minutes of each other, just enough time for Hissing Sid the signalman to reset the...
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BBC Documentary
Wednesday brings another familiar view of Catcott, as the mid morning Evercreech Junction to Highbridge slows for an empty platform. Average photographer Ivan Locksmith has his Rolleiflex loaded with...
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Copper Haired Coppers
Copper haired coppers, Cooper & Cropper (try saying that after 8 pints) usually patrol the canal side at the beginning of their shift. Cooper secretly fancies Cropper, and to display his love, he...
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LSWR Adams Radial
#FEF #frontendfriday aka Front End Friday Friday frequently sees all sorts of random locos briefly passing through Brew Street. Double Denim Dancing Dando appears to be rather smitten with this one,...
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Canal Aged Brandy
Saturday down by the canal, Colin is trying out a cunning plan to replicate ‘sea ageing’ with the latest batch of illicitly produced ‘brandy’. The main problem is that they have a whole tank wagon of...
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No Sunday Service
In the latter years of the railway to Combwich, there wasn’t a Sunday rail service. It was all part of a ploy to get people off the railways, much like the weekend rail replacement bus services of...
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Monochrome Monday
It’s Monochrome Monday again, and because the colour meter isn’t topped up until Tuesday morning, today as with most Mondays, this post will be presented in black and white. Here we are a Combwich, and...
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Pint Sized Big Boy
It’s Tuesday morning at the colliery. And yet again the management are trying out new forms of motive power for the 2ft 3 inch narrow gauge part of the colliery. The builders based the design on a...
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An Age Thing
Wednesday down on the docks. Arthritic Arthur really should stop jumping off the engine with his poorly back. Still he won’t be be told what to do, being an independent forthright soul. After jumping...
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Auction!!!
Not what it appears Thursday. To the uninformed, this is simply an auction for an ‘acquired’ tank of fuel - quite reasonable considering prices at the pump here in the UK have started to rise again....
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Multipurpose Tools
The men of the track are out to perform a little tweak to the catch-point that serves the canal wharf siding. It frequently gets stuck open, but because the siding slopes down at 1 in 25 below the...
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Freshly Squeezed
“Here we go again” I hear you mutter, “damn moonshine this, moonshine that, yada yada… zzzzz”Deliberation Dave, the king of taking risks and trying out new things has decided to go into the apple juice...
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Is It All Over?
The moonshiner’s Sentinel steam lorry broke down whist on tour, so has been collected by the railway version of the Automotive Association to get it home and be fixed. They had to choose a route...
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Thundery Thursday
Thundery Thursday Under a thundery sky, Reginald peers across to the camera from the footplate of the wheezing old engine which has just arrived on the 6.03am Evercreech Junction to Highbridge goods....
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City of Truro
Front End Friday #FEF #frontendfridayIn 1957, preserved 3440 ‘City of Truro’ was dragged out of retirement back into regular service for a while. True! The engine came to fame after reputedly reaching...
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Red Sky in the Morning….
Saturday morning at the colliery moments after sunrise, and the golden light is quite magnificent as we look across the railway yard observing today’s shunting locomotive. More frequently than not this...
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Taking the Knee
Sunday down at the canal wharf and Barry Bullhead and his submissive minion Neil are out flogging their illicit wares. Neil kneels most of the time because he’s always proposing to someone of...
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