Hornby Mallard takes the Brookes Castle Power Test

LocoYard has very kindly given me access to this blog to do blog posts on the various things I am up to. So today being the 75th anniversary of the Mallards speed record for steam of 125.88mph I thought it would be appropriate to get my Hornby Mallard to take on the Brookes Castle Power…

A4s In Profile

On the eve of what is billed as one of the greatest railway events of the decade, it was decided we should republish our A4 locomotive profiles. Here are 3 of them, in build order; 60009, 4489 & 60008. The Concluding 3 will follow after the event. Tomorrow, a special blog post will be posted…

All Change!

Tonight’s blog post itself may be a little short, but if you look at the menu’s above, you will see that there have been some changes to the structure of this site.  These are to both try and make things a little more simple but also reflect some of the changes to the yard, particularly…