Pages
(Move to ...)
Blog
My Website
Flickr Photo Gallery
About Me
Facebook
X
Contact
▼
28 February 2024
Wise Guy Wednesday
›
Wednesday morning looks like a good one, for once it’s not raining which makes a change. So much so that Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe has take...
25 February 2024
Sunday Shenanigans
›
More dubious activities outside The Kettle Inn this morning. Waving Willy and Waving Wayne look like they’re having a good time over there ...
18 February 2024
Stormy Sunday
›
Sunday morning looks like it’s going to be a stormy one as Farmer George and Rufus hound watch the works train take the rough track in its s...
17 February 2024
Peter Pug
›
Saturday morning at the brewery, and Peter Pug, twin half brother of Peter Peckett propels a load of finest malted barley across the cobble...
15 February 2024
Class 50 Thursday!
›
A Class 50 heads away from Salisbury with a London Waterloo to Exeter service, June 1982. Minolta SRT101 200mm Rokkor. Kodak Plus X Class 5...
14 February 2024
#WTFWednesday
›
#WTFWednesday A hazy summer morning at Combwich, and it looks like it’s going to be a scorcher. So much so, that the little people made fro...
11 February 2024
The Pines Express, According to ChatGPT
›
The up Pines Express powers over the Mendips Hills ably hauled by 40564 and 53809. Double heading (often with whatever could be found) was u...
10 February 2024
Saturday Shimmy
›
On Saturdays, Double Denim Dancing Dando loves to stand on the footplate of passing locos. His magnetic heels helping him enormously, but ma...
09 February 2024
Like a Ninja on Amphetamines 🐾
›
It’s Rear End Friday! Okay, that doesn’t really work, but it is what it as they say, the rear end of a locomotive and it’s Friday. Waving W...
04 February 2024
Watch the Birdie!
›
It’s Sunday down on the docks, and several of our favourite naughty chums are out to greet the arrival of a proper engine which is well and...
03 February 2024
The Best Rail Replacement Bus Service Ever!
›
A summer Saturday in July at Ankle Bend crossing on the edge of Combwich. And is is the norm for a weekend railway in Little England the rai...
02 February 2024
Zeiss Ikon Contina 526/24
›
An occasional post about old cameras in my collection, this one being the latest.... A spur of the moment £12 ebay find which arrived e...
Standing Start
›
Most Fridays at the colliery begin with a race between the mainline locomotive and shunting engine. The competition being to see which one c...
29 January 2024
Another Mono Monday
›
Monochrome Monday A blustery stormy day in the early 1960s as a BR Std Class 3 tanks departs Combwich with the 10.05 Combwich to Templecom...
27 January 2024
The Wheeltappers & Shunters Club
›
Saturday morning on Combwich shed, as ‘248 simmers next to the water tower. Over by the signalbox, linesmen Monty and Don are having a discu...
21 January 2024
The Flying Scotsman
›
Today we have an photo from my time machine as 4472 ‘The Flying Scotsman’, on The Blackmore Vale Express aka The Sherborne Lunch Express, t...
20 January 2024
Eye Test
›
Tap to enlarge Occasionally at the colliery, under the watchful eye of Barry Bullhead from the Ministry of Misery, failed optician Pointy P...
17 January 2024
Waving Wednesday
›
Click to zoom in Waving Wednesday It’s Wednesday morning at Catcott, as the morning pick up goods collects an empty mineral wagon from the...
12 January 2024
Front Ends Friday
›
It’s ‘Front Ends Friday’, for we have not one, but two front ends! It would appear that Shrewsbury engine shed’s ’Coal Tank’ is on the wande...
09 January 2024
20 Foot High Snowy Arctic Storm of Doom
›
It’s a cold blustery morning at Fountain Colliery with showers of snow, hail and sleet making the morning shift a little unpleasant for thos...
08 January 2024
Monochrome Monday
›
Monday morning, and there’s a problem with the point which takes the line up in to the colliery on the right. Mouldy Malc, Hyperactive Hans ...
05 January 2024
Far Out Friday (man)
›
Far Out Friday (man) Over there in the distance, as usual the local bus service is late, and is unable to be the other side of the crossin...
04 January 2024
Foggy Thursday
›
Foggy Thursday Boatman Bruce Bottlenose careful eases his fully loaded narrowboat away from the wharf with a fresh load of coal. The load h...
03 January 2024
Where’s All the Colour Gone Wednesday…..
›
Where’s All the Colour Gone Wednesday….. The morning goods trundles through Catcott Crossing with a brake van immediately behind the engine....
‹
›
Home
View web version