In stark contrast to the previous blog post looking at modern traction in the National Railway Museum, York (click here to read more), today we look at locomotives and carriages, some of which are replica’s, that remind us of the early days of railways in the UK. We begin with elderly 1829 built Shutt End…
At the time of going to press, 76079 is the newest member of the 00 scale locoyard fleet of model locomotives. The real thing has featured on the website before (click here for more) and the Bachmann model has also been reviewed (click here to read the review). Today, we look at the history of…
The National Railway Museum is home to many significant locomotives and of course, not all of them are steam locomotives! It would be wrong to not include some of them in the series of blog posts that have been published in the past few weeks on the NRM! As ever I beg for forgiveness if…
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Following on from Part 1 and Part 2 of a series of blog posts looking at the model railways of Pecorama, today we look at the brilliant Layout Catalunya.
Closely related to Ivatt’s 4MT 2-6-0, the BR Standard 4MT 2-6-0 class was a useful locomotive used in most regions, with the exception of the west. 115 were produced, 17 of them with a larger BR1B tender for the Southern region. The model reviewed here is catalogue reference 32-952. Without further ado, here’s the locoyard…
Today’s model of the week is another of Locoyard’s collection of LBSCR A1X terrier’s. This time, it is arguably the most famous terrier of them all…
This is just a mini blog post for mid-day Sunday to remind you all that we have the fantastic UK Heritage Hub Magazine to read and thought it wouldn’t hurt to publish a couple of pictures of ex-LMS 2-8-0 Stanier 8F 48151 at the same time! The locomotive was sitting in the yard outside the…
Saturday 17th August 37516; Crewe – Liverpool 46233; Liverpool-Wigan-Settle-Carlisle-Shap-Preston-Liverpool 37516; Liverpool – Crewe Sunday 18th August 48151; York – Leeds – Keighley – Hellifield – Appleby – Carlisle (37706 on rear) 48151 (piloting 37706); Carlisle – Appleby – Hellifield – Keighley – Leeds – York Tuesday 20th August 48151 (piloting 47760); York-Normanton-Wakefield-Castleford-York-Scarborough – York Wednesday…
Our partners at UK Heritage Hub have just published the ever fantastic e-zine full of brilliant articles from a wide variety of authors. As usual, “The View From Locoyard” features, amongst these! Enjoy! Click here to download and read it!
Loco Yard 