The Annual Cat Leap!

Here we are at Catcott crossing again, and as is the norm for the last Saturday of July, it’s the annual event of watching Bob Geeza Cat leap on to the footplate of the passing 10.32am Highbridge Docks to Evercreech Junction goods train. If you zoom in to the right, you can see our intrepid Bob poised and ready to jump. 

Standing in for the more usual Midland 3F 0-6-0, we have a magnificent S&DJR 2-8-0 locomotive. The luxuriously large open expanse of warm flat metal between the buffers and the smokebox will make landing a doddle for sure - as long as it’s not been polished with an oily rag that is. If that is the case, Bob will quite likely end up in the old canal (or ‘Rhyne’ as we call it in these here parts). 

To add to the joviality, our equally intrepid moonshiners along with our regular wavers have arrived in their ‘new’ Sentinel flatbed steam lorry to cheer on the proceedings with several shrill toots of the steam whistle and a few samples of their latest 180% proof ‘shine. Toot toot - go Bob!

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