Arthritic Arthur has just climbed down from the engine to couple a few wagons up during the morning shunt. But he’s now struggling to get ...

 First time booze runners and part time pub circuit folk music duo Cyril Slap & Toby Tickle have just taken delivery of 3 casks of illic...

At Fountain Colliery, Harry Hunslet has decided to fire his engine with old rubber tyres and moonshine which has produced around 33% more po...

Click to enlarge  Here we are deep in The Forest outside The Miners Arms, and as part of a special joint scientific test, officially request...

  A few shots at Ropley Saturday 26th April at The Watercress Spring Steam Gala.    These events are always busy, so rather than avoid peop...

 “Oh I say, a duel, how very sporting!” mutters Arthritic Arthur as he staggers off the engine furthest away, “2 engines verses a single ste...

  Wednesday morning and ‘Jinty’ 47276 slowly propels a rake of 16 ton mineral wagons under the aggregate loading screen. It’s a slow old pro...

 British Rail for years have been trying to dispose of their scruffy yellow Ruston PWM, but it’s a bit like a cockroach and won’t go away de...

  Here we are on a lovely Saturday morning, and it’s time for weekend engineering works, something which most know has been enshrined law si...

At an unknown location, quite possibly somewhere along the Thames Valley, a short passenger train catches the evening light sometime in the ...

I’m a bit short of new colour photos, so you’ll have to suffer black and white today. But this is real black and white, it being taken on pr...

 Friday, but not Front End Friday Douglas (formerly known as ‘Doug’ until he lost his spade) and Deliberation Dave, watch Harry and his Huns...

Freddy Flag and Harry Hunslet have just noticed Bob Geeza Cat on the hot tin roof of the pithead building (though actually it’s probably asb...

Serene Sunday Due to the very short platform at Catcott Halt, Evercreech bound trains block the level crossing for a few minutes. But there ...

Radstock shed’s ‘Jinty’ (though they were called ‘Bagnalls’ on the S&DJR) 47276 simmers next to the rotary aggregate swirlywirly loading...

Here we are a Wedmore, the terminus of little recorded light railway which runs up from Shapwick Junction on the Evercreech to Highbridge li...

High up in the Mendip Hills, there’s a little known 2 foot gauge (or thereabouts) light railway that runs from nowhere in particular to nowh...

Tuesday afternoon, and Bill & Ted in their wheezing old Midland 3F 43216 propel a hopper wagon full of grain into the yard at Catcott, h...

For years and years, we’ve been led to believe that these wagon are used for conveying radioactive matter. But in fact they’re for transport...

 A regular Thursday in the land of the inch high.  A former Great Eastern Railway J15 from Ipswich has been borrowed to trial on the Highbri...

 WTF Wednesday  In the land of the inch high most things work very well. But they’ve not been able to produce a tiny camera that works in 1/...

 Sunday morning down at the engine shed.  Mumbling Malcolm, Peter Peckett and Deliberation Dave are trying to justify their weekend overtime...

 Saturday morning down by the ‘water tower’.  New to the area locomotive fireman Lonnie Doonican, who at weekends plays banjo and sings rath...

Thursday at Windmill Sidings - in a part of forgotten Norfolk which cannot be found on any maps. It’s first thing, and not a soul is yet to ...