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Saturday Shimmy
On Saturdays, Double Denim Dancing Dando loves to stand on the footplate of passing locos. His magnetic heels helping him enormously, but making it tricky to dance. However he does do a great upper...
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The Pines Express, According to ChatGPT
The up Pines Express powers over the Mendips Hills ably hauled by 40564 and 53809. Double heading (often with whatever could be found) was usually only in the summer, but the Midland 2P would have...
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#WTFWednesday
#WTFWednesdayA hazy summer morning at Combwich, and it looks like it’s going to be a scorcher. So much so, that the little people made from low melting point white metal are hiding indoors, because...
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Class 50 Thursday!
A Class 50 heads away from Salisbury with a London Waterloo to Exeter service, June 1982. Minolta SRT101 200mm Rokkor. Kodak Plus X Class 50 Thursday!The Class 50 is called a 'Hoover' in the land of...
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Peter Pug
Saturday morning at the brewery, and Peter Pug, twin half brother of Peter Peckett propels a load of finest malted barley across the cobbled yard. When took this photo a few years ago on Brewhouse...
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Stormy Sunday
Sunday morning looks like it’s going to be a stormy one as Farmer George and Rufus hound watch the works train take the rough track in its stride. Meanwhile Harry the Hammer who is almost at the end of...
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Sunday Shenanigans
More dubious activities outside The Kettle Inn this morning. Waving Willy and Waving Wayne look like they’re having a good time over there on the right. As for Bob Geeza Cat, I’m not sure he’s in a...
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Wise Guy Wednesday
Wednesday morning looks like a good one, for once it’s not raining which makes a change. So much so that Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe has taken his open topped passion wagon out for a spin so he can do a...
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High Speed 1.9
Down on the docks. For years Pete, Dud and Neil have been asking for a passenger service on the light railway system. The day has finally arrived with the delivery of the much hyped train! No expense...
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That’s Your Lot….
That’s your lot…..Today we take the time machine back 58 years, to the 6th March 1966. And here we are at the end of the road for Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway apart from a few freight only...
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Screw in Strap Lugs
Many old cameras don’t have a means of attaching a cameras strap, they being designed to sit in a case when out and about with strap attached to the case. It always worries me that when I’m wandering...
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LSWR Steam Extravaganza 150
Fresh out out of the scanner. Over the weekend of 23 and 24 July 1988 to celebrate 150 years on the London & South Western Railway, BR Networkq Southeast ran several steam hauled excursions around...
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‘Look No Hands’ Technique
The light over Somerset Levels is often quite spectacular and unusually for a Sunday the bus replacement rail service has been replaced with a train. Those familiar will know that in Little England all...
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Hobby Graveyard
Looking through my back catalogue for todays post, this one popped up from 2007 - 17 years ago, which in digital photography land is almost pre-historic. It’s a scene on Ankle Bend Crossing on my...
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Using Expired Film
Cad, charmer, business and ladies’ man Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe is taking Dizzy Lizzie for a wander around the docks, because as we know ladies (ask mother if you don’t know what one is) love a...
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Pink Panda
Pink PandaIt’s all happening outside The Miners Arms today. Newly formed railway guard dance trio and occasional Morris men; Dwayne, Dusty and Dillon also known as ‘The Three Dees’, are performing...
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Moorewood Colliery Revisited
A scene on my OO9 (1/76 scale on 9mm track) Moorewood Colliery. It’s fully wired and working, but really needs finishing off and placing in a lit diorama case with backscene and built in photography...
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Spring Equinox
Happy Spring Equinox, today the day is as long as the night, and the night is as long as the day, confusing I know. And here we have the 6.13 Combwich to Evercreech Junction service ready for...
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Spence the Spanner
Spence the Spanner has been working all night with his big spanner and pot of grease. There’s nothing he can’t build with this versatile combination. And here is is standing back this bright morning to...
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Lockdown Lovers
To commemorate 4 whole years of the ‘lockdown’ here in Little England, masked crusaders and Zombie Apocalypse of Doom work-shy lockdown-lovers Sharon & Tracy love to relive those halcyon plague...
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