Here we are at Catcott again, where national treasure Uncle Bob, accompanied by the decidedly non-identical twins Fifi & Fiona, are ab...

Friday 10 July was a bit of a hot one at 33c, nevertheless I popped down to the Watercress Line for day one of their annual diesel gala.  Th...

It’s a lovely summer morning at Catcott level crossing and halt as the 9.05am Evercreech Junction to Highbridge service rumbles past Swank...

Outside The Miners Arms they’re digging up the street again for ‘essential public works’.  Last week they were installing piping for moons...

Here we are again at Catcott, reputedly named after Bob Geeza Cat, though that might be wishful thinking on behalf of Bob, because he does...

Yesterday’s post featured a Hymek diesel hydraulic loco. It’s a pretty ancient Triang Hornby model I picked up on eBay a good 25 or so yea...

Not many photos exist of Catcott after the line closed on 6 March 1966 with the rest of the former S&DJR apart from a couple of stubs....

Polbrook Gurney Colliery skulks deep within an uncharted corner of the North Somerset Coalfield, in a mysterious region known locally as T...

Here we are at Brew Street, sometime in the late 1980s. What few people realise is that Deliberation Dave is a time traveller. Sadly, he h...

Saturday morning by one of the many water towers in the Land of the Inch High. Trouble is brewing. Rumours of a mouse infestation have rea...

Fireless locomotives run on highly compressed superheated air and need topping up from time to time from a suitable reservoir. Here we see...

With much wheezing, rattling and entirely unnecessary enthusiasm, Driver Andrew-Barclay powers his trainload of freshly liberated coal awa...

Here we are at Combwich on the hottest afternoon of the summer of 1959, and the little tank engine unofficially borrowed from Shrewsbury s...

Here we are back in the olden days on a hazy summer Sunday deep in the Somerset Levels at Catcott railway crossing. Mavis the crossing kee...

Old Bernard Manning-Wardle the engine driver was having a terrible day. First, his little green locomotive sneezed coal dust all over Bob ...

Here we are at Catcott Burtle again, a remote halt with a single siding in the middle of a bog on the Highbridge line.  Not a great deal h...

Terry Tuttle Thomas Smythe hosts the very first ‘Collieries Have Talent’ competition, that’s our favourite smarmy chap stood on the engine...

Saturday morning and Barry Bullhead from the Ministry of Mayhem has come to inspect the new level crossings barriers that have been instal...

National Treasure Uncle Bob, continues to do research for his forthcoming railway orientated television series aimed at schoolboys with no...

Monochrome Monday on a Monday ‘cos it isn’t always on a Monday  National treasure Uncle Bob standing next to a race of mine tubs, watches H...

A few of you missed Bob Geeza Cat in yesterday’s post, so here he is chatting to Andrew and his Barclay locomotive at Polbrook Gurney Coll...

It’s foggy down on the levels this morning as the 8.43am Highbridge to Evercreech Junction service slows for Catcott.  Throughout the year...

Here we are back at Fountain Colliery not far from The Miners Arms, and we have a delivery of gunpowder dropped off by our regular little ...

Here we are again at Whimsy Pit, as Andrew and his Barclay locomotive potter about pushing wagons here and there, and occasionally there a...