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...

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...