New Forest Steam – Exbury Gardens Steam Railway

Whilst on a lovely (though very muddy!) walk with Mrs Locoyard on 9th March, we briefly passed through Exbury,

The Most Famous Steam Locomotive?

Until the end of March 2013, we were accepting nominations for locomotives considered to be the most famous! This competition was started in UK Heritage Hub’s e-magazine (Click here to download and read it). A poll is now live for all nominated entries – click here to vote!

The Watercress Line’s Home Fleet in Action

The Watercress Line’s Great Spring Steam Gala

Martenex-Marigny, St Annes, Loosely Warren, Unserstadt – Solent Model Railway Group International Exhibition of Model Railways 2013 Part 5

Tonight is the fifth part of a series of blog posts (click here for part 1, click here for part 2, click here for part 3 and click here for part 4), showing some of the Model layouts that could be seen at the Solent Model Railway Group’s Exhibition held on the 23rd and 24…

Locoyard Model Fleet Stock List

After a lot of time, the Locoyard model fleet page has finally been updated. This was most popular page of the website in 2012; however it became too big and corrupted so had to be closed. Hopefully we will not have the same problems this time! Not only is it better functioning, but it should…

B473 – Ex-LBSCR E4 Class 0-6-2 Tank

Saturday 23rd March 2013 will see the re-opening of the rail link between Sheffield Park and East Grinstead.

Model of the Week – British Railways Standard Class 5MT – 73082 Camelot

This is the first BR standard class locomotive to feature in the Model of the week series. Once again, we shall be looking at the history of the prototype, illustrated by pictures of Bachmann’s rendition of the model (click here for the model review).

Inspiration for an Artist – Guest Blog Post from Stephen Bedser of Cornish Inc

Tonight we have a very special guest blog post from a fantastic artist, Stephen Bedser. Stephen has kindly written an article about how he became an artist who specialises in heritage scenes. I would strongly recommend you visit http://www.cornishinc.co.uk to see more of his fantastic works. Stephen can also be found on twitter (click here),…

Ex-LSWR T9 class – 30120

One of the biggest stars of the Watercress Line’s Great Spring Steam Gala

Crackington Quay, Benter Railway, Burnbridge, Courthare Junction – Solent Model Railway Group International Exhibition of Model Railways 2013 Part 4

Tonight is the fourth part of a series of blog posts (click here for part 1, click here for part 2 and click here for part 3), showing some of the Model layouts that could be seen at the Solent Model Railway Group’s Exhibition held on the 23rd and 24 February 2013. Crackington Quay –…