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....

Padre Patrick, deposed priest (due to swapping Altar wine for 180% proof moonshine at Mass), and now artisan fish-paste maker, is on unoffic...

It’s Sunday morning, and it’s the launch of the new ‘Moonshine Express’ as the crew line up for inspection and final briefing before the wh...

  Sometime in the mid noughties, Class 60, no 60026 is caught ready to depart Cement Quay with freshly quarried cat litter for the not very ...

Wednesday morning at Brew Street, and railway historian and minority interest TV presenter Uncle Bob, Hard Hat Hartley, Bob Geeza Cat and ...

Milky Monday   It’s a lovely sunny morning at Ankle Bend level crossing just outside Combwich, as the morning goods arrives from Highbridg...

Tap to enlarge  It’s Fuggy Friday Following on from yesterday’s post….. Deep in The Forest around sunrise it’s a little smoggy and fuggy, it...

 Here we are again at Whimsy Pit and wharf.  The pit is a sort of sham, it being mostly used for storage of illicit booze and dodgy smuggled...

Poke to enlarge  Unlike in full sized England, which is now officially twinned with Atlantis due to all the rain, here at Whimsy Pit it’s a ...

  It’s Fully Compensated Chassis Saturday  Here we are at Polbrook Gurney Colliery, and a few of the inch high are off on a trip to Bath for...

  Tap to blow up big  Today we’re back again at Whimsy Pit and wharf.  A fireless Andrew Barclay No.2 has managed to covertly make the journ...

It’s a lovely sunny summery Front End Friday at Whimsy Pit and wharf, and shunter Colin is looking for his false teeth that fell out whilst ...

Tab to blow up  Part of my railway room, and 3 of my smaller layouts. I have a similar set up on the other side of the room with Catcott and...

Tap to blow up  The railway siding next to the Kettle Inn marks the boundary between the tax free county of Somerset and the rest of Little ...

Tap to enlarge  Its late summer of 1966, six months after closure of Combwich and a Class 22 diesel hydraulic arrives to collect wagons of s...

Prod to blow up  Former pub landlord Shamus O’Shandy and Andrew Barclay pause to enjoy in the lovely late summer morning at Whimsy Pit. This...

Lick to enlarge, sanitise screen after  3 or 4 times a year during storm conditions and extra high spring tides, the sidings at Whimsy Pit f...

Tap to blow up big  It’s Twin Tank Loco Thursday (or ‘two times’ if still at nursery school or from ‘merica).  Like excited puppies, Peter a...

Click to blow up  A summery morning at Whimsy Pit, a little known colliery on the North Somerset coast.  Being next to the sea, it’s a bit o...