Yep, it’s that time again!  Deep in The Forest, twice a year, the ancient ironstone circle has to be moved to reflect the clock change here...

 Annual Eye Test aka WTF Wednesday Back in olden times, eye tests were performed randomly in often quite inappropriate locations, like here ...

Spied through the heavy open gasworks gates, Freddy the Flag waves Peter Peckett past to collect an empty coal wagon or three. Peter doesn’t...

 Monday morning and the local council have turned up to fix a reported teeny weeny pothole (of course this never happens in real life) right...

Click to zoom in and enlarge   Another Saturday, another rail tour operated by the Slow Locomotive Society aka SLS.  Originally it was calle...

  Friday morning outside The Miners Arms and it’s all kicking off.   Railway dance trio, The Giggling Guards, are practicing their act for t...

It’s the Spring Equinox today, which is one of 2 dates in the year when the day is as long as the night, and the night as long as the day, a...

Harry Hunslet and Barry Bicycle are chatting away wondering what the burning wood smell is. Bob Geeza Cat replies back in meow speak saying ...

 Like a repeat on TV here it comes around again….. with a few tweaks… ☘️St Patrick’s Day at the pub☘️ Unlikely friends, Tory hooray party gi...

Over at Brew Street, one of these new fangled containers has arrived. And being an old fashioned kind of place they’ve not handled one of th...

From time to time, Taunton Fairwater Yard’s scruffy yellow Ruston PWM shunting loco is used instead of the more regular Class 08 on the twic...

Front End Friday and Waving Wally waves at Double Denim Dancing Dando looking out of the cab of the slowing engine pulling a short rake of h...

The inch high wake up to find a lump of coal in the colliery sidings. Okay, coal and collieries tend to go together, but it’s a mystery as t...

 WTF Wednesday  Trials are underway for the new (old by the time it opens) High Speed 2.5 aka HS2.5 rail route which will serve parts of The...

34027 ‘Taw Valley’ masquerading as 34045 Ottery St. Mary hauls a circular ‘Venice-Simplon Orient Express’ dining special day trip from Londo...

Monday morning and Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse, Herbert the conversational Mayan speaking horse, and Hartley the only hor...

The pub will be opening in 93 seconds. But first the little people enjoy watching the diverted 10.32 Bournemouth to Bath thunder through bet...

Back in olden times with all the hype of the Titfield Thunderbolt film about country bumpkins saving their local railway, it would appear th...

59 years ago to the day on Sunday the 6th March 1966, the former Somerset & Dorset Railway network, apart from a couple of sections whic...

Once a year usually around this time, the old engine from the museum is fired up and taken on a spin of the dockland lines. Today’s lucky pa...

Back in olden times, most pubs near a railway line would have their own siding. This was so that beer could be dropped off and empty casks r...

Only around 10% of posts are seen by followers here unless you’re a regular. It’s an alcoholrhythm thing I gather and way beyond my understa...

Bill and Ben watch Harry Hunslet propel a short rake of empties up the 1 in 20 grade into the colliery. A good run up generally ensures succ...

I was the temporary custodian of the latest Bachmann Johnson 1P 0-4-4 last week. So once I’d done all my official photography for a well-kno...