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The 10%
Only around 10% of posts are seen by followers here unless you’re a regular. It’s an alcoholrhythm thing I gather and way beyond my understanding (okay, I could Google such, but cannot be ar&ed)....
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Designated Driver
Back in olden times, most pubs near a railway line would have their own siding. This was so that beer could be dropped off and empty casks returned. Engine crews between turns would frequently use such...
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One Way Trip
Once a year usually around this time, the old engine from the museum is fired up and taken on a spin of the dockland lines.Today’s lucky passengers are Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse,...
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59 Years Ago
59 years ago to the day on Sunday the 6th March 1966, the former Somerset & Dorset Railway network, apart from a couple of sections which lasted a few years longer for goods traffic closed for...
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Five a Day
Back in olden times with all the hype of the Titfield Thunderbolt film about country bumpkins saving their local railway, it would appear that the inch high have got in on the act and created a small...
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“I Need to get back to Mother”
The pub will be opening in 93 seconds. But first the little people enjoy watching the diverted 10.32 Bournemouth to Bath thunder through between the colliery and the pub before making a dash to the...
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Cheltenham Festival
Monday morning and Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse, Herbert the conversational Mayan speaking horse, and Hartley the only horse that can chat in conversational Vectis, the native...
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The 11th of March 2005
34027 ‘Taw Valley’ masquerading as 34045 Ottery St. Mary hauls a circular ‘Venice-Simplon Orient Express’ dining special day trip from London away from Virginia Water. 11 March 2005. Nikon D70, Nikkor...
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High Speed 2.5
WTF Wednesday Trials are underway for the new (old by the time it opens) High Speed 2.5 aka HS2.5 rail route which will serve parts of The Grim North (previously known as The Northern Powerhouse). As...
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Old King Coal
The inch high wake up to find a lump of coal in the colliery sidings. Okay, coal and collieries tend to go together, but it’s a mystery as to how they got it up the mineshaft.I found this lump of coal...
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I Missed the lunar Eclipse!
Front End Friday and Waving Wally waves at Double Denim Dancing Dando looking out of the cab of the slowing engine pulling a short rake of hopper wagons. There’s supposedly engineering work scheduled...
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Somerset Bog Brandy
From time to time, Taunton Fairwater Yard’s scruffy yellow Ruston PWM shunting loco is used instead of the more regular Class 08 on the twice weekly the trip working to Catcott. Sadly most of the line...
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Hubert Horse Power
Over at Brew Street, one of these new fangled containers has arrived. And being an old fashioned kind of place they’ve not handled one of these ‘modern ribbed metal boxes’ before. But being resilient,...
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St Paddy
Like a repeat on TV here it comes around again….. with a few tweaks…☘️St Patrick’s Day at the pub☘️Unlikely friends, Tory hooray party girl Dizzy Lizzie and dowdy communist Rachel from accounts...
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Meow meow meow meow meow meow
Harry Hunslet and Barry Bicycle are chatting away wondering what the burning wood smell is. Bob Geeza Cat replies back in meow speak saying that the wooden beer cask is starting to smoulder, it being...
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The Day is as Long as the Night & the Night is as Long as the Day
It’s the Spring Equinox today, which is one of 2 dates in the year when the day is as long as the night, and the night as long as the day, and occasionally sometime in between. Here we are a little...
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Dancing Guards & Pink Pandas
Friday morning outside The Miners Arms and it’s all kicking off. Railway dance trio, The Giggling Guards, are practicing their act for tonight’s talent competition at the pub which mostly revolves...
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Slow Locomotive Society
Click to zoom in and enlarge Another Saturday, another rail tour operated by the Slow Locomotive Society aka SLS. Originally it was called the FLS, aka Fast Locomotive Society, but they’ve been...
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Fixing the Potholes!
Monday morning and the local council have turned up to fix a reported teeny weeny pothole (of course this never happens in real life) right outside the entrance of The Miners Arms. It was reported by...
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Dirty Old Town
Spied through the heavy open gasworks gates, Freddy the Flag waves Peter Peckett past to collect an empty coal wagon or three. Peter doesn’t really need Freddy the Flag, but he’s been waving his flag...
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