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 company called Craftline. The same company also produced the pithead, that too is also made of balsa wood and is also unsinkable. 

Driver Stavros the Steam is pottering about the sidings pushing wagons from here to there, and from there to here. His engine came from a long closed railway on Cyprus by all accounts. Roxey Mouldings based their kit on it apparently, but theirs has handrails unlike this one. 

 

Barry Bullhead from The Ministry of Misery is trying to communicate with Hubert the conversational Latin speaking shunting horse. Because Hubert is near retirement age, he’s suggesting that he goes underground to be a pit pony, the low light levels will be kinder on Hubert’s cataracts. 

 

And finally, I doubt Barry’s plans will come to fruition, for Hubert is somewhat bigger than Barry, far too big to go down the mineshaft - and anyway the balsa wood pithead structure would struggle to take the weight, Hubert being made of lead. 

 

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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 been repurposed, and because there is no electricity to power it, the little diesel mechanical locomotive on the extreme left pulled the train on its 86 hour journey from somewhere near Cockfosters - much of it under the cover of darkness. 

The harebrained scheme instigated by The Ministry of Miserable Transport to rejuvenate deprived parts of The West Country, is unlikely to be a success, for the train ran empty with no media interest whatsoever, even though there was free moonshine and pickled winkles on offer. Not even Nasal Nigel is to be seen, and he loves hanging around on the final train of the evening to Hatton Cross playing with his slightly sticky TT gauge Flying Scotsman in the company of slightly sticky Adenoidal Andrew. 

And finally, Bob Geeza Cat is after some milk, and hasn’t even noticed the arrival of the train. 

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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 programmes. Until now. 

Next, Neal and Neil are trying to warn Bob Geeza Cat about PC Rob Banks and former artisan ice cream makers, now turned security guards Ben & Gerry creeping up behind him. Though quite why they’re after a harmless cat I’ve no idea. 

Behind ’the law’, synchronised railway guard dance duo are alerting everyone of the diesel shunting engine which has just appeared through the archway with a freshly packed wagonload of misery from that there Westminster in London. 

And finally, Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse is watching from the comfort of a departing fishing boat, having decided to become seahorse for the day. 

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