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Posh Andrew
Saturday morning at Brew Street. Posh Andrew is kneeling down in front of Dud “I so want to be an engine driver, I want to live like the common people, I want to be a real geeza bloke, I want to chew...
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Motor Rail
The Miners Arms leads the way for the motorist who likes to party. Drunken merrymakers can get themselves and their cars taken home by rail after an extended lunchtime or evening session down the pub...
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Monochrome Monday
Monochrome Monday. ‘Jinty’ 47276 potters about Cement Quay with wagons destined to be filled with limestone. Eddie and Ernie survey the scene in their new fancy fibreglass helmets. For those viewing in...
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What Happens in The Forest
Ever so often, railway collector Pete leaves the seclusion of The Forest of Dean and a few days later re-appears with a random find. On this occasion he’s been over to East Anglia and found a wonderful...
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☘️St Patrick’s Day☘️
☘️St Patrick’s Day at the pub! Liz and Margo witness the arrival of casks and bottles illicit fake ‘Irish’ stout from Colin’s dodgy brewery in the corner of the lambing shed on his brother’s farm. On...
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Flat Earth Friday
Well it’s that #frontendfriday thing. Here we have one of Gresley’s A4s, number 60029 ‘Woodcock’ (oooh I say matron) to be precise. And here is the steamy greasy beast blasting north on a 3ft board of...
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Champions!
Hubert, Henry and Herbert finally arrive home at Brew Street after their misadventures at The Cheltenham Gold Cup. Between them, they managed to come last in all the races they entered. But running...
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Robin Hood
People’s champions Colin and Barry Bullhead, most uncharacteristically, and in finest Robin Hood style have ‘acquired’ a tank of diesel. They’re going to sell the contents for 33% of what the the...
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Monochrome Monday
Monochrome Monday at Combwich. Little Jim and even littler John push a single empty wagon around the goods yard. It’s the only wagon at Combwich, so to amuse themselves they have made up a shunting...
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Tractor Tuesday
Tractor Tuesday, Clive is trying to work out how to couple the wagon to the tractor. Engineering haven’t put a hook on to the wooden buffer beam yet.
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Johnny Bestfinger & Cindy Clapper
Wednesday brings another familiar view of Catcott, as the mid morning Evercreech Junction to Highbridge slows for an empty platform. Average photographer Ivan Locksmith has his Rolleiflex loaded with...
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Back to the Future
20 years ago I bought my first digital stills camera. A Canon Powershot A40. I’ve not used it for well over a decade, so yesterday popped 4 x AA batteries in and was surprised to find it still works....
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Old Bob
It’s that ‘Front End Friday’ again! Clanking up the bank towards Titfield, the daily goods from Bath rumbles past old Bob re-roofing part of an old terrace. He’s been on the job for well over thirty...
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At The Races
And it’s race day at the colliery. Prince v Princess prepare for a 100ft sprint. Technical advisers and race engineers Pete & Dud have prepared both engines to the same steam pressure. Drivers are...
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Room With A View
The view from the first floor of The Pedant & Armchair pub. Back in the day it was popular with railway societies as a meeting place, the great view being one of the key attractions. And it looks...
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Mother
Monochrome Monday. A single wagon of coal is propelled on to the canal wharf. A small amount of coal still goes via canal to a foundry a few miles away, the railway having never got there. Meanwhile...
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05.30 At The Brewery
05.30, Tuesday morning at the brewery. New to the job, WPC Pickle normally directs traffic at busy junctions in city centres. Today she’s guarding the rail entrance to the brewery, but is struggling...
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Demolition
Catcott, 6 months after closure in the early autumn of 1966, and the demolition trains are the only action. The local bus still stops at the station though.
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Wooden Leg
The rails to Fountain Colliery squeeze themselves between The Miners Arms and Betty Beaver’s cottage. Any passing trains are instructed to make themselves known with plenty of horn or whistling, for...
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April Fuels Day
Down at the docks in Little Britain, Customs & Exorcists welcome the arrival of the new ferry service, (P&O having had their operating license withdrawn). From now on, due to zero customer...
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