Monochrome Monday

It’s Monochrome Monday again, and because the colour meter isn’t topped up until Tuesday morning, today as with most Mondays, this post will be presented in black and white. 

Here we are a Combwich, and the 7.18am service from Bridgwater has just arrived under what looks like a potentially thunderous sky. The loco crew must be cranky today, for rather than run the train right up to the buffers to allow the more infirm passengers alight, they’ve stopped in the runaround loop to save the amount of shunting about required. There are no passengers anyway. 

The Nasal Nigels here will take great delight in pointing out the lack of loco lamp, but rest assured the crew removed the lamp rather hastily upon arrival. Time saved has allowed crew to prepare a fry up on the loco footplate using the coal shovel as a frying pan. The menu today is the usual sausage, bacon, eggs and black pudding cooked in lard with a dusting of finest Welsh steam coal for added roughage. For today’s muesli and sawdust breakfast fanatics, we must remember that in olden times such meals were deemed far more healthy than they are now, especially if accompanied with a pint of farmhouse cider and a Capstan Full Strength cigarette.  

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