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21 September 2024
Balsawood, Pitheads and Pit Ponies
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Saturday morning at Moorewood Colliery. And down at the coal canal, Pete & Dud are chatting to Boatman Brian about his new unsinkable na...
05 September 2024
Slow Speed 1
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The first train on the new and much hyped SL1 (Slow Speed 1) service has just arrived at the remote Brew Street dockland location somewhere ...
03 September 2024
Seahorse
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From left to right…. Inch High Portillo is recording another TV series, and as regular UK based railway nuts will know he has a love of rail...
25 August 2024
Off for Scrap
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The present day at Brew Street, and an old hopper wagon is being removed for scrap, having been dumped on the wharf for more than a decade. ...
16 August 2024
20 Years Ago Today
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20 years ago!!!!! Here’s my view on 16 August 2004 grabbed through a long lens of the containerised waste transfer terminal at Calvert in ...
07 August 2024
Midweek Murkiness
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It’s a murky Wednesday in the Somerset coalfields as Peter prepares to top up his trusty Peckett loco water tank. Dud calls caution, “Be ca...
30 July 2024
Ted’s Quiff
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The sky looks like it might storm over Combwich shed. That’s one of Templecombe’s ex GWR pannier tanks simmering after having recently arriv...
28 July 2024
Sunday Shine
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It’s a lovely Sunday morning in late July, as the 5.32am Chilcompton to Frome goods snakes between the colliery and the rear of The Pedant ...
20 July 2024
Computer Glitch
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Due to a computer malfunction, for even when computers were made of polished mahogany, brass, Welsh marble, lithium crystals and powered by ...
14 July 2024
Canal Aged Moonshine
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Sunday morning down at the wharf, and Clive has just arrived with a milk churn full of ’canal aged’ moonshine. Meanwhile Douglas, who was fo...
11 July 2024
Return of the SS Canberra from the Falklands Conflict 11 July 1982
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42 years ago today as a whippersnapper, I was standing with Dad’s camera on Weston Parade, Southampton witnessing the return of the troops ...
26 June 2024
For Streetlight Fanciers
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Wednesday morning at the terminus, and Derek & Clive are reflecting on last night’s wasp chewing competition at The Star which was rathe...
22 June 2024
Ghost Lettering
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Ghost Lettering It’s an unusually quiet Saturday morning at Fountain Colliery deep in The Forest of Dean. The little people sometimes like t...
21 June 2024
The Railway to Stonehenge
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It's 4.52 am and the little people celebrate finishing the 'Stone Henge' a day late after the Summer Solstice (some years it’s t...
16 June 2024
A Couple of Tools
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Weekend engineering is underway, and Peter Pickaxe is performing some ‘technical work’ on the catch point. But Stan the Spanner suggests tha...
14 June 2024
Thwack, Bing, Bong, Crack!
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Nothing of note here, other than Shrewsbury shed’s missing ‘coal tank’ has again mysteriously turned up at Combwich under a magnificent sky....
05 June 2024
Boom Boom!
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Local businessman, ladies’ man, shifty charmer and cad Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe watches the morning Burnham on Sea to Evercreech Junction ...
01 June 2024
Dirty Old Town
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Saturday morning down at the gasworks, young loves Farmer George & Deidre are dropping off a moonshine order disguised as milk bottles. ...
29 May 2024
Flangeway Clearances
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Wednesday at Moorewood Colliery. The morning goods hauled by ex GWR Collett No. 3206 of Templecombe shed trundles along the mainline, which...
25 May 2024
Super Shiny Saturday!
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It’s Super Shiny Saturday! At the little known Moorewood Colliery, high up in the Mendip Hills, it would appear that management have been ou...
21 May 2024
Thinking Cap
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That familiar engine has escaped Shrewsbury engine shed again and is in dire need of having its water replenished. But alas things could be ...
18 May 2024
Cryptosporidium
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In several parts of the West Country in Little England, the water supply is currently contaminated with cryptosporidium waterborne parasites...
17 May 2024
WW2 Reenactment - Village at War (part 2 of 2)
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And here we we have my second roll of freshly processed film, from 'Village at War' reenactment at The Rural Life Living Museum from...
16 May 2024
Inspired by Titfield Thunderbolt Thursday
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Inspired by Titfield Thunderbolt Thursday! Before the famous loco was called ‘Titfield’ and later on ‘Thunderbolt’ it was known an ‘Lion’....
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