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Ted’s Quiff
The sky looks like it might storm over Combwich shed. That’s one of Templecombe’s ex GWR pannier tanks simmering after having recently arrived with the 6.03 am service from Templecombe. Meanwhile...
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Midweek Murkiness
It’s a murky Wednesday in the Somerset coalfields as Peter prepares to top up his trusty Peckett loco water tank. Dud calls caution, “Be careful Pete, not all water towers have water in them these...
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20 Years Ago Today
20 years ago!!!!!Here’s my view on 16 August 2004 grabbed through a long lens of the containerised waste transfer terminal at Calvert in Buckinghamshire, England. At the time they were filling up a...
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Off for Scrap
The present day at Brew Street, and an old hopper wagon is being removed for scrap, having been dumped on the wharf for more than a decade. Very little rail activity happens here now, and rumours are...
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Seahorse
From left to right….Inch High Portillo is recording another TV series, and as regular UK based railway nuts will know he has a love of railways, but has never recorded an inch high series of...
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Slow Speed 1
The first train on the new and much hyped SL1 (Slow Speed 1) service has just arrived at the remote Brew Street dockland location somewhere in North Somerset. A former London Underground tube train has...
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Balsawood, Pitheads and Pit Ponies
Saturday morning at Moorewood Colliery. And down at the coal canal, Pete & Dud are chatting to Boatman Brian about his new unsinkable narrowboat which is made almost entirely from balsa wood by a...
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Watercress Line Autumn Gala 2024
A few snaps taken at the Mid Hants Railway Autumn Steam Gala on Friday 4 October. Most try to avoid people in their shots, but looking back at my old stuff, the ones with people in are the most...
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38 years ago (and a bit)!!
6998 Burton Agnes Hall, with the Blackmore Vale Express, heads away from Salisbury destined for Yeovil Junction on a dull misty 5 October 1986. I took it on my 1959 vintage Rolleicord Va loaded with...
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From our Westminster commentator Hilary Gove-Tuckshop-Fugg
I posted this one a year ago, but I reckon it’s worth another punt even though we have new leaders, but they’re all much the same - mostly self serving incompetence…. Obvs not to be taken seriously…...
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Saturday Morning at Whitehall Halt
Saturday morning at Whitehall Halt, as Arthritic Arthur powers around the bend at breakneck speed with the 8.23 & 1/2am mixed goods from Hemyock to Tiverton Junction, there the wagonload behind his...
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Harman Phoenix 200
Some results from this new ‘quirky experimental’ Harman Phoenix 200 colour negative film made at the Ilford plant in Mobberley Cheshire. It’s definitely an ‘art’ film, with increased sensitivity to...
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The Railway Automotive Club
Back in the olden days when there were more railways than roads, if your car broke down you’d use the services of the Railway Automotive Club - aka RAC. Here we have such an occurrence, as Beryl’s...
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Mixed Weather
The mixed weather (now known as 'very scary global warming, but if you buy and electric car, all will be good weather') in Little England continues, as the autumn firmly makes its mark. The last...
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Never Trust the Cat
Deep in the Forest, a magnificent sunrise greets High Vis Harvey and Fluorescent Fred as they arrive on shift to start the engine. But as usual on a Tuesday they’ve lost the key to wind it up. Bob...
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Mid-week shenanigans...
Mid-week shenanigans...Working from left to right (or for those down under who’ll be looking at this photo upside down, from right to left). Barry Bullhead is striking up a deal with local pub owner...
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Big Bang in Them Hills...
A bucolic Thursday down in the inch high Devon as a grain wagon of malted barley is being dropped off. Officially it’s going to be turned into jars of sweet malt extract for weedy anaemic types who...
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£12 Ticket to Scotland
On the 3rd of March 1987 I was in Inverness, having travelled all the way from Salisbury the previous day on a £12 British Rail offer that was running at the time. Captured on Kodachrome, here we have...
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Ferdinand Upright the Fifth
A regular Saturday at Whitehall Halt. Upper class half brother twits Henry Bootright-Buttomhook and Toby Slipbottom-Whypeclean-Corduroy are waiting for their train to Tiverton Junction. There they’ll...
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Follow the Rainbow
From time to time I get asked how the inch high people know where to buy their moonshine from. It’s a combination of things, ranging from bribing Bob Geeza Cat with tinned pilchards (in tomato sauce of...
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