Lit by un unusually bright waxing gibbous, here we are around ‘closing time’ at The Royal Oak. Being the last Saturday night before Christmas, it’s […]
Barry Bullhead, the hard nosed utterly charmless man from The Ministry of Misery doesn’t have any true friends. That’s him standing by the crossing gates […]
Tuesday Twaddle It’s 2049 and everything is driverless. Even the passengers are passengerless because nobody will have the need or allowed to go anywhere, because […]
Where’s All the Colour Gone Wednesday….. The morning goods trundles through Catcott Crossing with a brake van immediately behind the engine. Clive can be seen […]
Foggy Thursday Boatman Bruce Bottlenose careful eases his fully loaded narrowboat away from the wharf with a fresh load of coal. The load here heading […]
It’s a cold blustery morning at Fountain Colliery with showers of snow, hail and sleet making the morning shift a little unpleasant for those outside. […]
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 […]
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