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...

We’ve not seen the wasp striped fireless locomotive for a while, for it tends to hang around here at Brew Street which has suitable facili...

Monday shenanigans at the colliery weighbridge, and all passing trains have to pay a toll to pass through, for there is no other route out...

Railway enthusiasts love a brakevan special. The lure of a long journey of discomfort without soft furnishings, a restaurant car and possi...

Saturday morning at Polbrook Gurney Colliery Halt and the 9.03am Chilcompton to Frome service slows to collect passengers. Today’s train c...

 It’s Tuesday morning at Fountain colliery sidings, and the overnight storms have cleared to reveal a magnificent sky.  Tin Hat Toby, part...

Regulars will have noticed that Bob Geeza Cat has been absent. That’s because he’s been way out west at Whimsy Pit, which also doubles up ...

Those living in Little Britain, remember to shift your clocks tonight by one hour. Here we have Deliberation Dave trying to work out which w...

Tin Hat Toby, part time shunter and full time conspiracy theorist, is mid-shunt with another tatty old wagon that’s ended up at Whimsy Pit...