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31 October 2024
Big Bang in Them Hills...
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A bucolic Thursday down in the inch high Devon as a grain wagon of malted barley is being dropped off. Officially it’s going to be turned ...
30 October 2024
Mid-week shenanigans...
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Mid-week shenanigans... Working from left to right (or for those down under who’ll be looking at this photo upside down, from right to left...
29 October 2024
Never Trust the Cat
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Deep in the Forest, a magnificent sunrise greets High Vis Harvey and Fluorescent Fred as they arrive on shift to start the engine. But as ...
28 October 2024
Mixed Weather
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The mixed weather (now known as 'very scary global warming, but if you buy and electric car, all will be good weather') in Little En...
27 October 2024
The Railway Automotive Club
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Back in the olden days when there were more railways than roads, if your car broke down you’d use the services of the Railway Automotive C...
26 October 2024
Harman Phoenix 200
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Some results from this new ‘quirky experimental’ Harman Phoenix 200 colour negative film made at the Ilford plant in Mobberley Cheshire. I...
Saturday Morning at Whitehall Halt
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Saturday morning at Whitehall Halt, as Arthritic Arthur powers around the bend at breakneck speed with the 8.23 & 1/2am mixed goods fr...
25 October 2024
From our Westminster commentator Hilary Gove-Tuckshop-Fugg
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I posted this one a year ago, but I reckon it’s worth another punt even though we have new leaders, but they’re all much the same - mostly s...
24 October 2024
38 years ago (and a bit)!!
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6998 Burton Agnes Hall, with the Blackmore Vale Express, heads away from Salisbury destined for Yeovil Junction on a dull misty 5 October 19...
23 October 2024
Watercress Line Autumn Gala 2024
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A few snaps taken at the Mid Hants Railway Autumn Steam Gala on Friday 4 October. Most try to avoid people in their shots, but looking ba...
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 ...
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