Fresh in from the land of the inch high.  Might be worth avoiding the area due to road closures, for they’re digging up the road today to po...

  Here we are again deep in The Forest and another rogue engine has appeared, this one being from Ipswich, an unremarkable town in the far e...

Another camera from my collection. A 1962 vintage Zorki 4 wearing a 35/2.8 Jupiter 12.  I bought it in Poznan, Poland from a street market v...

Almost 1000 feet up in the Mendip Hills near Priddy, there’s a disused boiler house which used to serve the lead mining industry. An old rai...

“You come over here in your boats and expect to be put in to the best catteries, kennels and zoos...." “No, we’ve just popped over to y...

We’ve not had Monochrome Monday for a while, so here we go.  Here we are at the tiny rather ramshackle halt at Brew Street. Rumour has it, t...

Deep in The Forest of Dean, there’s much excitement at Fountain Colliery this morning with the overnight surprise arrival of one of Little L...

We’ve not seen Hubert the Conversational Latin Speaking Horse for a while, but here he is back in action after being craned onto the short t...

  None of the inch high went to The Great Train Bothering in Derby over the weekend. They were too busy doing a little track maintenance. Or...

  Shrewsbury shed’s wandering ‘coal tank’ has turned up again at Fountain Colliery deep in The Forest.  It arrived overnight, driven by a my...

A few people have asked what Polbrook Gurney Colliery is like these days. Well, here we have a view taken from the rear of The Pedant & ...

  It’s not generally known that the Highbridge line closed for a week in the early 1950s. This was due to an administrative error at HQ in t...

 Black Five Thursday  As far as I know, Bath shed’s ‘Black Five’ 45440 never worked the Highbridge line, or any of the other ‘Fives’ for tha...

 Fermentation Friday Friday morning, Barry and Norman chat about last night’s saucy adult film about garden gnomes which was shown in the ba...

 Had the former Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway network not closed in 1966, this could have been a photo from more recent times on the H...

  The Miners arms is right on the boundary of the Forest of Dean, and in the last few hours has become a tax free principality like that of ...

It's 4.52 am and the little people celebrate finishing the 'Stone Henge' on the day of the Summer Solstice, and as you can see, ...

With The Ministry of Mayhem yet again downgrading HS2 with a plan to make it run slower, trials are underway with motive power and rolling s...

Harry Hunslet and his trusty loco pauses briefly at the end of the line by the pithead to collect an old mineral wagon still displaying a ra...

  A once in a lifetime achievement photograph as celebrity snapper Ivan Locksmith manages to capture the passing of the up and down Devon Be...

The locomotive, an old Midland Railway one allocated to Highbridge shed, is on loan to the light railway, it has replaced to more usual indu...

  Click to enlarge  Here we are at Fountain Colliery deep in The Forest in the middle of nowhere, which is south of north nowhere, and west ...

  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...