A misty last dawn at the old homestead. The view from the kitchen window. Just twelve days ago and it already feels like half a lifetime ago. New horizons.

Well, it's been a long journey, but definitely a rewarding path. First fire lit in the hearth. The heart is reawakened afresh.

No Trains Today. Sleeper impressions in the moss. All that remains to show that trains once ran here.

No Trains Today. End of an era.

A quietly significant day today as track lifting has commenced on my garden railway. Not many photos taken, I prefer to remember it in service. The first rails were laid on the 02/02/2002, so it has served well for many years. "Perchance it is not dead but sleepeth"

Off on another train trip. West Country this time.

Rarer than rocking horse doo doo, scarcer than hens teeth, two Brandbright Tilley trams together take to the rails of the Eaves Green Tramway. (There were only ever five of these models built, if records are correct and here are two of them.)

16mm scale Archangel single Fairlie's Moel Tryfan and Snowdon Ranger double heading on the Eaves Green Tramway today.

A late afternoon steam up in the garden. Carrying out a line inspection.

Ok, I've only a small select group of followers on here, so here's a little piece of breaking news about my garden model railway. Important enough to break my code of only posting B&W images. This is quite a monumental event. The first rails were laid on this line on 02.02.2002. End of an era.

Back in Sibiu. I do love my time here. Even when it's raining.

Home once more. This is a nice place to be.

It's been a chuffing while!

Back in Romania for some well earned rest and relaxation. (And a good dose of narrow gauge steam!)

I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the original Roger Marsh OGWEN.

Watching the harvest from our garden vantage point. Maybe for the last time?

Wow! The Awdry Extravaganza on the Talyllyn Railway really has to be seen to be believed. Seventy seven trains over three days, and every one filled with joyful passengers. That's quite a gala, and quite a challenge for the volunteers, staff, supporters and organisers to pull off. Well done!

Not much going on here these days. It seems to be fading away. Meanwhile, here's No.3 crossing Dolgoch Viaduct on a very blustery day.

So,I built a log store out of some fence panels which I'd taken down some thirty odd years ago, and a few other bits and pieces that I'd subsequently stacked up in the barn in the "that'll be useful some day" pile. Just to prove that they have indeed eventually become useful. Pleased now!

"No Trains Today." My 'get-up-and-go' appears to have got up and gone and has left me behind. Let's see if I can manage a few days of doing absolutely nothing and not feel guilty about it.

Walking the Mawddach estuary.

Monochrome Monday, with The Mule out on a coal delivery on the distant Llechfan Line.

A good outcome.

Hmmm, I don't know if you can see this, but it's taken overhead just now, with a hand held phone on a night setting. The (not very) long streak was a satellite passing through the shot.

It was quite literally raining stair rods up at Abergynolwyn today as a cloudburst greeted an afternoon Footplate Experience Train chuffing its way up the line. #Talyllyn Railway.

Work in Progress. #Landrover

Rails in the Grass. There's two little long term pet projects of mine, both of which may actually come to fruition this autumn. One is 120 miles away, the other is 1542 miles away. I need to be driving both of them though to make them happen. The easy one is the closer of the two, but maybe too easy

Shades of Owd Ratty in their 150th year.

Afternoon steam up after a few hours of somewhat overdue routine maintenance.

I've been tasked with creating a plan to sort out this level crossing. The railway is currently disused, but we plan to restore it. Trouble is, this is not just a very busy road crossing, there are NATO military convoys, including tank transporters, crossing here six day a week. I'm out of my depth.

Having a Corris sort of a day today.

And so a busy week in Sibiu, Romania comes to a close. A long weekend snooze is in order methinks.

My three weeks of volunteering out here in Romania comes to a close today and I fly back to Old Blighty. It's been an absolute blast and I'm completely knackered. I do so enjoy spending my time here. Cheerio! I'll be back soon!

Im sure that you turned up in Jules Verne's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

The intention is that we will be running passenger trains along here within a couple of years. Within one, if at all possible. Now, I do enjoy a challenge,but.... Well, we'll give it a go!

Another sunny day in the garden.

No.4, looking down....

The working week comes to a close. Shall I head down the pub for a pint, or fall asleep by the fire?

Out in the cold earlier today.

This.....

Machynlleth?

Much confusion in the garden. At least there's a Great Western theme to sort of bring it all together in one place.

Chuffing around the garden earlier this afternoon. Nice to be out in the sunshine.

Tram out to grass. Rasinari, Romania. I was lucky enough to travel this line between Sibiu and Rasinari a few years ago. Sadly it appears to be a bigger task to rescue than the local enthusiasts can meet. But, never say never!

Another grey day, but dry enough for a late afternoon steam up in the garden.

A crafty steam up in the garden earlier this afternoon.

Branches brought down during the recent winter storms lie across the abandoned rails. Archgate Station sits desolate and forgotten.

It's a tad cold outside today, so while I'm doing battle with an unpleasantly persistent winter bug, here's a piccie taken in the garden some years ago.

My first steam up of the New Year. I must admit that I'm slightly disappointed that the frost didn't linger very long this morning, and even more disappointed that there isn't any snow. (Yet????)

Hapy New Year one and all! I have to say that Marc Almond covering a Val Doonican track on Jools Holland's Hootenanny was my first surprise of 2025. I wonder what awaits us around the corner....