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A Sporting Night With Wasps & Hedgehogs
Lit by un unusually bright waxing gibbous, here we are around ‘closing time’ at The Royal Oak. Being the last Saturday night before Christmas, it’s been an unusually busy night with the final ladies’...
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Christmas Eve
Back in the olden days, fans of railways on the brink of closure copied The Titfield Thunderbolt film to save their line, but soon discovered just how impractical high maintenance open cabbed ancient...
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Victorian Values
Barry Bullhead, the hard nosed utterly charmless man from The Ministry of Misery doesn’t have any true friends. That’s him standing by the crossing gates watching the local service trundle past. He’s...
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Tuesday Twaddle
Tuesday Twaddle It’s 2049 and everything is driverless. Even the passengers are passengerless because nobody will have the need or allowed to go anywhere, because everything will use screens,...
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Where’s All the Colour Gone Wednesday…..
Where’s All the Colour Gone Wednesday…..The morning goods trundles through Catcott Crossing with a brake van immediately behind the engine. Clive can be seen on the veranda keeping guard over a stash...
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Foggy Thursday
Foggy ThursdayBoatman Bruce Bottlenose careful eases his fully loaded narrowboat away from the wharf with a fresh load of coal. The load here heading for the canal water pumping station further up the...
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Far Out Friday (man)
Far Out Friday (man) Over there in the distance, as usual the local bus service is late, and is unable to be the other side of the crossing to coincide with the arrival of the 11.43 Evercreech to...
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Monochrome Monday
Monday morning, and there’s a problem with the point which takes the line up in to the colliery on the right. Mouldy Malc, Hyperactive Hans and Deliberation Dave discuss on what to do. Mouldy Malc is...
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20 Foot High Snowy Arctic Storm of Doom
It’s a cold blustery morning at Fountain Colliery with showers of snow, hail and sleet making the morning shift a little unpleasant for those outside. But Hector Hi-Vis is a hardy soul, remembering the...
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Front Ends Friday
It’s ‘Front Ends Friday’, for we have not one, but two front ends!It would appear that Shrewsbury engine shed’s ’Coal Tank’ is on the wander again, suggesting some inch high mischievous activities are...
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Waving Wednesday
Click to zoom in Waving Wednesday It’s Wednesday morning at Catcott, as the morning pick up goods collects an empty mineral wagon from the small goods yard. Standing on the bridge, Waving Willy waves...
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Eye Test
Tap to enlarge Occasionally at the colliery, under the watchful eye of Barry Bullhead from the Ministry of Misery, failed optician Pointy Pellegrino performs eye tests using whatever there is to hand...
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The Flying Scotsman
Today we have an photo from my time machine as 4472 ‘The Flying Scotsman’, on The Blackmore Vale Express aka The Sherborne Lunch Express, thunders out of Salisbury on the 7th of June 1987 with a fine...
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The Wheeltappers & Shunters Club
Saturday morning on Combwich shed, as ‘248 simmers next to the water tower. Over by the signalbox, linesmen Monty and Don are having a discussion about home-grown spring onions before discussing the...
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Another Mono Monday
Monochrome Monday A blustery stormy day in the early 1960s as a BR Std Class 3 tanks departs Combwich with the 10.05 Combwich to Templecombe service via Highbridge. There are few passengers these...
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Standing Start
Most Fridays at the colliery begin with a race between the mainline locomotive and shunting engine. The competition being to see which one covers 75 yards from a standing start the fastest. Much like...
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Zeiss Ikon Contina 526/24
An occasional post about old cameras in my collection, this one being the latest.... A spur of the moment £12 ebay find which arrived earlier. It looked rather grubby in the photos, that's grubby...
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The Best Rail Replacement Bus Service Ever!
A summer Saturday in July at Ankle Bend crossing on the edge of Combwich. And is is the norm for a weekend railway in Little England the rail-replacement bus service is running which you can see...
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Watch the Birdie!
It’s Sunday down on the docks, and several of our favourite naughty chums are out to greet the arrival of a proper engine which is well and truly suited to a tough dockyard life with its tight curves,...
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Like a Ninja on Amphetamines 🐾
It’s Rear End Friday! Okay, that doesn’t really work, but it is what it as they say, the rear end of a locomotive and it’s Friday. Waving Willy is on the early turn pottering about with the recently...
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