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30 August 2023
Super Low Emission Zone
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Wednesday morning, and it’s day two of the hugely controversial Super Low Emission Area Zone Enterprise aka SLEAZE set up by self serving Ba...
28 August 2023
Another Effing Bank Holiday Monday
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Monochrome Monday again, and because the colour meter isn’t topped up until Tuesday morning, today as with most Mondays will be presented in...
26 August 2023
In the Nick of Time
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It’s Saturday down at the canal wharf, and as usual PC Rob Banks and Officer Crook are doing their twice daily walkabout to track down any n...
25 August 2023
Messing About With Vintage Lenses
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Friday evening at Brew Street, and it’s been a long day for the crew and their elderly ex Great Eastern Railway J15 which is standing in fo...
24 August 2023
WTF Thursday
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#WTFthursday Daddy (Mendip) Sentinel is taking Junior (Simon) Sentinel for a trip around the brewery sidings. One day he’ll have a red namep...
23 August 2023
Blown Head Gasket
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Beryl’s recently supercharged Austin 7 has blown a head gasket, so it’s being taken by rail to the garage for repairs. It’s always blowing g...
21 August 2023
Brambles, Thorns and a TT Gauge Flying Scotsman
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Monochrome Monday again, and because the colour meter isn’t topped up until Tuesday morning, today as with most Mondays will be presented in...
20 August 2023
Taking the Knee
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Sunday down at the canal wharf and Barry Bullhead and his submissive minion Neil are out flogging their illicit wares. Neil kneels most of t...
19 August 2023
Red Sky in the Morning….
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Saturday morning at the colliery moments after sunrise, and the golden light is quite magnificent as we look across the railway yard observi...
18 August 2023
City of Truro
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Front End Friday #FEF #frontendfriday In 1957, preserved 3440 ‘City of Truro’ was dragged out of retirement back into regular service for a...
17 August 2023
Thundery Thursday
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Thundery Thursday Under a thundery sky, Reginald peers across to the camera from the footplate of the wheezing old engine which has just ar...
13 August 2023
Is It All Over?
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The moonshiner’s Sentinel steam lorry broke down whist on tour, so has been collected by the railway version of the Automotive Association t...
12 August 2023
Freshly Squeezed
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“Here we go again” I hear you mutter, “damn moonshine this, moonshine that, yada yada… zzzzz” Deliberation Dave, the king of taking risks an...
11 August 2023
Multipurpose Tools
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The men of the track are out to perform a little tweak to the catch-point that serves the canal wharf siding. It frequently gets stuck open,...
10 August 2023
Auction!!!
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Not what it appears Thursday. To the uninformed, this is simply an auction for an ‘acquired’ tank of fuel - quite reasonable considering pr...
09 August 2023
An Age Thing
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Wednesday down on the docks. Arthritic Arthur really should stop jumping off the engine with his poorly back. Still he won’t be be told what...
08 August 2023
Pint Sized Big Boy
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It’s Tuesday morning at the colliery. And yet again the management are trying out new forms of motive power for the 2ft 3 inch narrow gauge ...
07 August 2023
Monochrome Monday
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It’s Monochrome Monday again, and because the colour meter isn’t topped up until Tuesday morning, today as with most Mondays, this post will...
06 August 2023
No Sunday Service
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In the latter years of the railway to Combwich, there wasn’t a Sunday rail service. It was all part of a ploy to get people off the railways...
05 August 2023
Canal Aged Brandy
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Saturday down by the canal, Colin is trying out a cunning plan to replicate ‘sea ageing’ with the latest batch of illicitly produced ‘brandy...
04 August 2023
LSWR Adams Radial
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#FEF #frontendfriday aka Front End Friday Friday frequently sees all sorts of random locos briefly passing through Brew Street. Double Den...
03 August 2023
Copper Haired Coppers
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Copper haired coppers, Cooper & Cropper (try saying that after 8 pints) usually patrol the canal side at the beginning of their shift. C...
02 August 2023
BBC Documentary
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Wednesday brings another familiar view of Catcott, as the mid morning Evercreech Junction to Highbridge slows for an empty platform. Average...
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,...
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