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31 July 2023
Monochrome Monday
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Monochrome Monday Here we are at Combwich, and the Highbridge and Bridgwater trains are both timed to depart within 2 minutes of each other,...
30 July 2023
Grease Nipples & Ball Joints
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Sunday on Combwich shed. There is little action as 41248 sits silently next to the water tower waiting to be steamed up overnight in prepar...
29 July 2023
The Annual Cat Leap!
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Here we are at Catcott crossing again, and as is the norm for the last Saturday of July, it’s the annual event of watching Bob Geeza Cat lea...
28 July 2023
Fabulous Friday
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Front End Friday aka #FEF It’s not generally known that the Highbridge line closed for a week in the early 1950s. This was due to an admin...
27 July 2023
Summer of ‘69
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A late July Thursday in 1969, the overnight mist and light rain is starting to clear, but this is only temporary, for the weather forecast i...
26 July 2023
Lockout!
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Wednesday morning at Moorewood Colliery. Doug has accidentally locked himself out of the engine winding house again. It never used to be loc...
24 July 2023
The Very First Mobile Telephone
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The inch high people of Little England are celebrating the launch of a new mobile telephone service. The telephone box can be operated from ...
23 July 2023
Sunday Service
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It’s Sunday at Polbrook Gurney Colliery. On this line, there isn’t normally a Sunday service, though to be honest there is little need for ...
22 July 2023
Returning the Empties
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Saturday morning and Liz & Teresa are returning their crate of empty moonshine jars for a refill, the moonshiners having set up a tempor...
21 July 2023
Combwich
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#FEF aka #frontendfriday It’s Friday morning, and here we have the 09.35 to Evercreech departure. A scene on my Combwich layout that I star...
20 July 2023
#WTFthursday
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#WTFthursday PC Rob Banks is getting a ticking off by the superintendent for arriving late at a possible crime scene involving a hidden moo...
19 July 2023
Refuge Bags
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Another level crossing scene. Here’s part of Combwich, another one of my layouts dating back to the very early 1980s, although this section ...
18 July 2023
End of the Line
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After 12 hours searching, Graham the LNWR G2, finally tracks down missing Wendy Wagon and Barry Brakevan who’d eloped by gravity down a rem...
16 July 2023
Mother Knows Best
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Nasal Nigel in his slightly sticky green bus-spotter flasher mac loves to watch the passing trains at the level crossing. But he really must...
15 July 2023
Sunrise Shimmy
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Saturday is forecast to be a little wet and stormy, however a splendid sunrise briefly illuminates Double Denim Dando having a little shimmy...
14 July 2023
Gone in a Bang
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Enthusiastic automotive cleaner, shiner, buffer & polisher Barry Scott has just arrived in his shiny new MG Magnette. Today he’s been as...
13 July 2023
Customer Experience
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#WTFthursday Down at the docks, management again have been on the beg and borrow in an attempt to improve the ‘customer experience’ with th...
12 July 2023
Midweek Misery
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Midweek Misery. Peter Peckett hated Wednesday mornings, so to liven things up, he could think of nothing better than to remove the mooring r...
11 July 2023
The Flange & Flangeway Society
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Before Barry Bullhead worked for the Ministry of Misery, he was 51% of a failed comedy duo known as The Grumble Brothers. Here they are betw...
10 July 2023
Sentinel Steam Lorry
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Moonshine Monday. The little people as regular readers will know, have been trying out all sorts mobile moonshine production vehicles, they...
09 July 2023
Flood!
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After a plethora of thunderstorms last night, the trackbed has flooded between The Pedant & Armchair and the colliery. There are two opt...
07 July 2023
171 Shopping Days To Christmas
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With just 171 shopping days until Christmas (at time of posting), the little people have temporarily popped up the Christmas tree to check t...
04 July 2023
When Scales Collide
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What happens when the land of the inch high collides with the land of the two inch high. The inch high have been following Chris from the l...
03 July 2023
Miner Monday
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Driver Wee Willy Winky pauses on the crossing next to The Miners Arms. The pub name hinting that it was very popular with the vertically cha...
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