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30 April 2022
Somerset Snail Culinary Society
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Saturday morning at Polbrook Gurney, as the Frome to Bath via Chilcompton service slows. Barry Bullhead and Deliberating Derek are heading f...
29 April 2022
Warm Hands
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With warm hands deep inside his special heated pockets, Nasal Nigel enjoys the warmth of his bus-spotter green flasher-mac whilst watching t...
28 April 2022
China White
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Clad in dandy high vis, former estate agents Toby and Timothy plan their next TikTok video, as trainspotters’ champion 37422 rumbles past wi...
27 April 2022
Combwich
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Wednesday morning, and here we have the 09.35 to Evercreech departure. A scene on my Combwich layout that I started around 1981. Apart from ...
26 April 2022
Duels & Zimmer Frames
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It’s a lovely late April morning at Combwich, as the 9.30 to Bridgwater and the 9.35 to Evercreech Junction via Highbridge prepare to depart...
23 April 2022
St George & Prize Cabbage
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Every St George’s Day, Nasal Nigel swaps his trusty sticky green bus-spotter flasher-mac for a brown suit. It dates from his office days wor...
22 April 2022
Pipe Organs & Spam Fritters
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It’s front end Friday again. Little Peter Peckett pushes his wagons under the colliery loading screen. Once loaded it might be a slight stru...
21 April 2022
The Man From the Ministry
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It’s a lovely sunrise at Combwich West (not many know that Combwich has 2 stations, but that’s a story for another day), as the first train ...
19 April 2022
Andrew & Barclay
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Andrew and Barclay are chatting to the engine crew, favourite subject being beer and OO gauge checkrail flangeway clearances. Poor old Dave...
17 April 2022
Comeuppance
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Sunday morning, and Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe finds his beloved Triumph ‘babe-catcher’ balanced on some ale casks. The cad and bounder fina...
16 April 2022
Photo in the making…
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Apologies for late post today, real life and all that, and it’s a lovely day to be outside in the UK. But I did pop the lights on earlier a...
14 April 2022
Customs & Exorcists
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Thursday morning and our much loved Beryl starts her new job in Customs & Exorcists. There she’ll be investigating illegally imported ec...
13 April 2022
Mother Knows Best
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Nasal Nigel in his new slightly sticky green bus-spotter flasher mac loves to watch the passing trains at the level crossing. But he really ...
11 April 2022
Jolly Farmer
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Whilst The Pedant & Armchair is a popular pub with Hornby fanciers (other brands are available) and trackmat fiddlers, the newly opened ...
10 April 2022
Footplateman’s Fry up
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Sunrise at Combwich, the warm radiant light illuminates an ex GWR ‘Small Prairie’. I’ve no idea how some of these names were arrived at in t...
09 April 2022
Horsepower
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It’s a right old cavalcade down on the docks with further experiments of the new ‘Motor Railway’ car carrying service. With the cost of dies...
08 April 2022
Alphabetti Spaghetti
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And it’s that #frontendfriday thing again, the day we go all wibble about fronts with sticky-out pointy bits and bumps. These are the men w...
07 April 2022
Airfix 4F
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A short ballast train trundles over the crossing at Catcott. The engine is an Airfix Midland 4F 0-6-0, bought from Beatties in 1982. Origina...
06 April 2022
Wibble Wednesday
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It’s Wibble Wednesday! That’s right, your chance to wibble away to your heart’s delight! I’m sure there’s much here to bring out even your m...
05 April 2022
Winkle Raffle
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Combwich quayside next the The Star. This rough old pub is popular the local rowdy types, with the weekly ladies’ wasp chewing competition b...
04 April 2022
Crane Loco
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It’s a misty Monday morning. And we have the arrival of a former Great Eastern Railway J15 converted in to a crane loco. The complex mechani...
03 April 2022
Norfolk
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Sunday at Windmill Sidings - in a part of forgotten Norfolk which cannot be found on any maps. It’s first thing, and not a soul is yet to be...
02 April 2022
Afternoon Tea
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Hemyock in deepest East Devon, a showery July day in 1956. The little loco has just run around its single carriage and collected a milk tank...
01 April 2022
April Fuels Day
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Down at the docks in Little Britain, Customs & Exorcists welcome the arrival of the new ferry service, (P&O having had their operati...
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