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...

Sunday morning, and national treasure, minority interest TV presenter and hobbyist, Uncle Bob arrives on the veranda of a scruffy old dies...

Supersonic Saturday…Okay, not quite, especially given the state of the track in The Forest.  Propelled by Hubert the conversational Latin sp...

It’s the Spring Equinox in the Land of the Inch High. The day when the day is as long as the night, and the night as long as the day, an...

It’s Wide Angle Wednesday, and we’ve stuck the camera up on a pole up to capture a slightly elevated view of the wharf and sidings at Whi...

What happens to all the old mining pit props when they’re no longer any good as a pit prop? They get collected by the ‘Never Ending Vodk...

 The little people have managed to put a train together much like the one in the celebrated film, quite surprising when you consider how...

It’s Saturday morning in Catcott Burtle goods yard, and a scruffy empty hopper wagon has just been dumped in the siding due to a hot box o...

 60 years ago today on Sunday the 6th of March 1966, the former Somerset & Dorset Joint Rly network closed forever. Here we are at Co...

Here we are back at Whimsy Pit, and Andrew and his Barclay locomotive have just deposited a scruffy 21 ton mineral wagon to collect some ‘...

Note the fine dull ballast on the track in the foreground and yard to the right. This is very much a feature of railways from the steam era....