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Upside Down Dimmock
It’s a dull, misty, damp October morning as the 9.01am Highbridge to Evercreech Junction service slows for Catcott. And it would appear that Driver Dimmock has again put on the incorrect lamp headcode...
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Keef & Rick
Shortly after sunrise and Keef (his real name is Keith, but ‘Keef’ fits in better with the prog-rock band he’s in) has arrived for a spot of overtime. But he’s missing the key to fire up the engine, so...
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Gold Top Milk, Drivel, Dust & Incontinence
It’s Monday again, gosh they come around quickly as we get older. I presume it’s that routine thing, same-ol same-ol giving us little to reflect on and thus instantly forgotten. The trick is probably...
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The Joy of Being a Cat Servant
I wasn’t really sure what to post today, but then this quick iPhone grab appeared on my timeline taken at the weekend before I was summoned by dearest to do something more productive like empty the cat...
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Everyone Knows a Nasal Nigel
Patrick The Pannier Tank is dreading picking up the stray wagon after spotting Nasal Nigel on the platform. Nigel loves to pick holes in anything and everything in a most dull adenoidal condescending...
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Not Quite Full Moon Friday
It’s Not Quite Full Moon Friday. Here we are at Brew Street under a Hunter’s Moon. There is plenty of activity going on with the little people, but because it’s a long time-exposure they’ve blurred so...
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Easter Sunday 1984
No miniature stuff today, I need to put some more material together. But I’ve been busy with my day job photography, and anyway the little people are getting rather tatty. Their paintwork needs a top...
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Pumpkin Heads
Snivelling little tick Neil suddenly found himself kneeling in front of his pals with pumpkins for heads and thought that it must be rather painful with a hot burning naked flame inside. He then...
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Grab Those Multi-coloured Marker Pens Monday
Monochrome MondayNo, not because I’ve run out of colour tokens, but because black and white film was used for this photograph, which unlike that digital thing all the cool cats use these days, it only...
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Pumpkin Fight!
Ever so often, masked crusaders and Zombie Apocalypse of Doom work-shy lockdown-lovers Sharon & Tracy love to relive those halcyon plague days when they used to fight over toilet paper and...
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Dreary Daniel and His Drewery Diesel
Dreary Daniel and his Drewery diesel pull a short rake of empties out of the canal wharf siding before reversing up the 1 on 20 grade into the colliery on the right. It’s one of the steepest unassisted...
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Gone all Titfield
Saturday morning down on the docks. And it looks like everyone has gone Titfield Thunderbolt mad. The little people have even managed to put a train together much like the one in the celebrated film....
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Monochrome Monday
It’s a dull and damp November Monochrome Monday deep in The Forest. There has been some engineering further down the line, and a ballast train from the overrunning weekend engineering has arrived...
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Bristol 1984
Highgrove St, Totterdown A few more pics from the time machine. Bristol November 1984 mostly in the Totterdown area. Almost 40 years on, many of these scenes are unrecognisable now. Location in...
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Polluted Pond
Wednesday morning by the polluted pond. At the rear of the pub, Deliberation Dave and Ned Notebook negotiate a deal for a few jars of moonshine - this might take some time. Meanwhile Little Jim on the...
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Titfield Thunderbolt Thursday
Titfield Thunderbolt Thursday Barry Bullhead and Terry Tuttle-Thomas Smythe are impressed by the new paint job applied to the ancient carriage - it looking just like in ’that film’. With built in bar,...
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Don’t Ask For a Tutorial
Not quite fully front end Friday. Digging through my archive this one popped up, sorry, I can’t create a new photo everyday, I do actually have a life, contrary to what many might think who’ve never...
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Half a Lifetime Ago
Fresh from the time machine, taken by me when I was a cherub. The level crossing at Dunbridge Railway Station on the Romsey to Salisbury line grabbed on the 25th of June 1984. Very much an everyday...
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Tiddles the Fibreglass Cat
As I look out at the late autumn morning thinking that winter is just around the corner, a quick rummage through my back catalogue produces this summery one. Here we have the service from Bridgwater...
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Six Feet Under
Barry Bullhead from the Ministry of Misery and Doug, West of England Grave Digger Championship winner, 1955-58 watch the the Frome goods trundle through. Doug has spent the last couple of hours packing...
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