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30 July 2022
The Milk Train
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Saturday morning, and Paddy & Shamus are waiting for the train to Tiverton Junction and then on to Exeter for a day out exploring the pu...
29 July 2022
Taco Oven
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It’s #frontendfriday again. Old trusty 58086 sporting a then new design of supersized black rubber loco lamp, poses in the brewery yard next...
28 July 2022
Gnat’s Todger
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With all the recent small fabulous loco releases we forget the good old Hornby ‘Pug’. This an eBay find from 15 or so years ago, since repai...
27 July 2022
Hubert Returns
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I know a few of you were worried about the disappearance of Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse. Especially because he was last s...
26 July 2022
Plan C
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Tuesday morning at Brew Street. The management have hired in a shiny rail car for the occasional passenger service. Pete & Dud are tryin...
25 July 2022
End of the Line
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Monochrome Monday. A hot sunny Monday in late July 1967 sees the first of many demolition trains at Combwich, the line having closed in Marc...
24 July 2022
High Summer - Camping Tips
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High summer out on The Levels, there is little if any wind with temperatures already up in the mid 80s. Not great if camping, but the trick ...
23 July 2022
Mobile Telephone
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The inch high people of Little England are back from their holiday. They thought it good to get away before the ankle biters break up for th...
14 July 2022
Up in the 80s
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Apologies for lack of posts this week, I’ve been rather busy with location photography supported by borderline 2G cell cover and ‘hotel wifi...
11 July 2022
Monochrome Monday
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Monochrome Monday, the daily pick up goods from Radstock trundles past Polbrook Gurney Colliery Halt with a short train which today unusuall...
10 July 2022
40 Years On…. Falklands Conflict
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40 years ago, 11th July 1982, I bicycled over the shore at Woolston, Southampton and photographed the Canberra returning from the Falkland I...
Evening Sun
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Only the weeks around midsummer does the sun penetrate my railway room, Fountain Colliery being ideally positioned to capture the rays of ev...
09 July 2022
BRRRBRRRS
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At weekends, railways in Little England are replaced with buses. It’s been the law since 1948. However after spotting a legal loophole (don’...
08 July 2022
Harriet
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Harriet maybe isn’t the prettiest of engines, but she always does her best to make her huge eyes look encapsulating and does fabulous job wi...
07 July 2022
10 Years Ago to the Day
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While trying to find a photo for today, this one came up from exactly 10 years ago to the day. A scene on Brewhouse Quay, a 4ft by 2ft micro...
06 July 2022
6 July 1952
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An old 6x6cm colour transparency of the crossing keeper’s cottage at Catcott on the Highbridge line which ran across the Somerset Levels. Cl...
05 July 2022
Lighting Up Time
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Lighting up time at Brewhouse Quay, as Bath's ex-GWR Pannier tank No. 4631 is captured resting on the quay after tripping some empty van...
02 July 2022
The Old Kettle Sprint
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It’s Saturday morning at Brew Street, and time for the annual ‘rail race’ also known as ‘The Old Kettle Sprint’. This unofficial race which ...
01 July 2022
Look, No Hands!
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It’s #frontendfriday again, and such a familiar tag, even the iPad I’m posting this from auto fills the tag in, that’s probably due to the f...
29 June 2022
Backwater Blues
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Old ‘Sad Eyes’, aka number 13 ponders over his short and generally miserable life. For most of his time, he’s been in and out of workshops h...
27 June 2022
County Lines
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Monochrome Monday. Catcott Crossing, as an ex GWR ‘pannier tank’ briefly blocks the crossing. The old Austin 7 looks like Beryl’s, but the c...
25 June 2022
Saturday Morning at the Terminus
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Saturday morning at Combwich. Starting on the left, Barry Bullhead (the time and motion man from the Ministry of Misery) is happily acceptin...
24 June 2022
Less CO2
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The new even greener ‘Tesco Express’ has only taken 14 days from Southampton Docks, travelling at less than walking pace with plenty of brea...
23 June 2022
Up The Grade
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View through the bridge, as Radstock shed’s ’Pug’ wiggles its way up the grade towards our photographer. The gradient is 1 in 20, so the pho...
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