Today’s model is the first GWR member of the Locoyard fleet of locomotives to be featured in the model of the week series. Bachmann’s model is excellent and worth checking out (click here for it’s review). Without further ado, let’s look at this classic GWR locomtive.
The Kent and East Sussex Railway (K&ESR) is home to the only surviving Hawksworth 16xx pannier tank class – 1638.
UK Heritage Hub has published another brilliant newsletter and as usual “The View From Locoyard” is in it! Enjoy! Click here to download and read it!
The East Kent Railway, partners of the UK Heritage Hub, are proud to announce its first ‘proper’ Diesel Gala for many years to be held over the weekend of the 27th and 28th July 2013. The 2 ½ mile railway near Dover will be celebrating its industrial mining connections by running an intensive timetable using…
Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the re-opening of the Watercress Line’s Ropley to Medstead and Four Marks station. An excellent article of how this happened can be found on the railway’s website. To mark the occasion, a slideshow of photographs has been put together from the many visit’s to the line that have featured…
BR Standard classes are popular model prototypes, so much so that in the 2013 MREmag and RMweb Poll, the two most wished for classes of 00 scale steam locomotive were standard classes (the 2MT and 3MT 2-6-0’s). But even with that said, it was a surprise to many when Hornby announced it was going to…
The Kent and East Sussex Railway (K&ESR) was the first and is still one of the best known light railway’s in the UK. Built by Colonel Holman F. Stephens;
Today’s blog post is the final report from a visit to the Swanage Railway and is of a remarkable narrow gauge locomotive that can be found on display at Corfe Castle Museum.
Today’s model of the week is one of Locoyard’s collection of Ex-LBSCR A1X terrier’s – in fact it is actually 2 of the collection, as both a Kent and East Sussex Railway (K&ESR) and BR liveried versions are here for the time being. As with many locomotive’s of this vintage, the prototype has quite a…
Today we almost round-off the report from last week’s visit to the Swanage Railway, with a few pictures of BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4T 80104 and other stock, including brake vans and cranes.
Loco Yard 