Whilst A4 4464 Bittern was hitting headlines yesterday on the mainline, Bulleid pacific 34067 Tangmere was hauling the “The Bath and Bristol and is captured in these pictures at Eastleigh station, where it paused for a moment. I hope you enjoy the pictures of this mainline regular!
As you read this, for the first time in at least 45 years, all 6 remaining LNER A4 pacific’s are on the same depot, and fittingly, that is York, 50A, now the home of the National Railway Museum. 60007 ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’ arrived last Monday from its home base of Grosmont on the NYMR, joining…
This week’s model star is Beattie Well-Tank 30587. The locomotive behind this model has a very long history, so without ado, let’s find out more!
Following from last week’s blog post look at the Watercress Line’s class 50 50027 Lion, today we look at another heritage diesel at Ropley – class 37 /9 D6836.
The Bachmann Fairburn 4MT Tank engine is a favourite performer here at locoyard. It predates this blog, so a DCC fitting guide was never published before, however as the locomotive had a small decoder fitted but had space for a bigger one, I took the opportunity to replace it and publish this guide!
The weekend ahead is the Churnet Valley Railway’s Velocipede Rally, the world’s biggest and best Hand Powered Rail Rally. The 13th National Velocipede Rally will see at least 20 machines in action including Velocipedes, Track Bikes, Velorails, A Row Boat, Draisine, Walking Car, Belt Car and the Infamous “I Cycle”. On Saturday afternoon at Froghall, between the trains,…
Tonight’s star is BR Standard class 76079, a locomotive that is in the locoyard fleet of 00 scale models (click here to read a special feature on the model). This locomotive’s mainline performances earned it the nickname the “Pocket Rocket” and it was this locomotive that brought me back to the hobby in 2009. These…
Ropley is without doubt one of the best places to see heritage steam and diesel locomotives. I have never visited the site without there being plenty to see, which is one reason I go there whenever possible!
Welcome to Locoyard’s Model of the Week Blog Post! Today we have an example of arguably one of the most versatile steam locomotives ever constructed – the Stanier Black 5!
Tonight we have the third very special blog post brought to you by Edward Farms. Edward has a fantastic website that I urge all Locoyard Followers to check out ! If you missed it previously, you can catch up with part 1 of this series by clicking here I will now leave you in Edward’s…
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