A Sunday morning in the autumn of 1995, as a ballast train arrives with a short rake of ‘codfish’ hopper wagons with 47145 ‘Merddin Emrys’...

There is much excitement down at the docks this morning. Regular readers will know that the inch high people been after a passenger service ...

Barry Bullhead from The Ministry of Misery and Driver Colin decide to ride the cushions to Highbridge today, despite the offer of a lift fro...

Third brother triplets (it’s complicated I know), Comical Ned (with the funny shaped head), former boxer Gaylord Grip, ‘oh my gawd’ Oliver a...

Monochrome Monday. A ‘USA’ tank loco trundles past The Kettle, a right old dive of a boozer. It’s known for its weekly ladies’ wasp chewing ...

It’s a dull and damp November Sunday deep in The Forest. There has been some engineering further down the line, and a ballast train has arri...

It’s Saturday morning, and the 10am goods from Highbridge has an unscheduled stop. Passed cleaner, confident Keith, knew that Deidre Dinkle,...

  Guy Fawkes in the UK is mostly about celebrating a chap who sadly didn’t manage to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Only in Little Britai...

Every year in early November, all employees including the shunting horses - even the conversational Latin speaking ones like Hubert here, ar...

Weird & Wacky Wednesday. The dull day in the middle of the week, where the weekend still feels just that bit too far away.  In today’s l...

  Deep in the forest, a dull misty 1st of November greets the arrival of the empties at the colliery. There is not a great deal of activity ...

 Happy Halloween / Samhain 🎃👻🎃👀

I was just going through some early construction photos of Polbrook Gurney from before I expanded the layout and added the colliery to the r...

The complex railway network down at the docks is often used for new locomotive trials due to its remote location in the middle of nowhere aw...

In deepest Devon, Barry and Dave watch the arrival of coal at the creamery from the safety of the bridge. Today they’re running moonshine la...

Wild Sky Wednesday! ‘Oh don’t you know dear boy’ Ivan Locksmith and local dirty rotten scoundrel & ladies’ man Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smyth...

  Dizzy Lizzie, recently shamed former Prime Minister from the Ministry of Misery, assisted by her loyal playful hound Kamikaze Ken who can ...

Sunday morning at the colliery. Deep in the Forest and Peregrine Pinch, holidaying lifeguard from Chertsey Meads, eyes up the pannier tank e...

Saturday morning behind The Pedant & Armchair pub. Nothing too unusual going on as Pete & Dud barter over a crate of hooch. Fruit fa...

September 1994, and a somewhat more mature Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe and Ivan Locksmith are heading for Highbridge. They no longer drive du...

We’ve not seen everyone’s favourite sweaty bus-spotter extraordinaire Nasal Nigel for a while. This is due to him spending time at a des res...

By 1969, Polbrook Gurney Colliery had closed and been razed to the ground.  For those unfamiliar with the location, the colliery used to tow...

The clueless management at the colliery have been buying on Amazon again when they should have gone to a specialist retailer and received pr...

Former diagonal geezer-bloke, boxer, thug, flash-Harry and Audi driver Gaylord Grip brings his latest rail mounted ‘wheels’ along the narrow...