Here is a short DVD Promo for the official UK Heritage Hub endorsed DVD featuring the best of the action from the resent Severn Valley Railway’s Autumn Steam Gala. The DVD will be 50 minutes in length and feature steam locomotives in action from all 3 days of the event. Locomotives featured include; Visiting locos;…
This model review has been promised for a little while now! The D11 class were very successful locomotives that performed well throughout their forty year career’s. Bachmann’s model is no less impressive and set’s a standard that will be hard to match!
How many of you live near to or regularly travel close to a famous attraction and yet have never been there? The sort of place that you would definitely visit if you were a tourist, but despite or maybe because it is just there on your doorstep you forget about it. The Spa Valley Railway…
62663 Prince Albert is a member of the Locoyard fleet that is quite different to the others in the collection, in that it is the only one with Great Central Railway origins. If it wasn’t for the unfortunate demise of Modelzone, where 62663 was sold for a good price in one store’s last hour of…
Today is my first part of a series of telling my journey getting involved in volunteering within the railway heritage world. You’ll be able to keep track of these blog posts in a new dedicated web page (click here to view). Being based in Portsmouth on the South Coast I had a couple of choices…
Tonight’s blog post is very short, publishing a few pictures taken of the Watercress Line’s resident ex-LMS Black 5 45379 working tender-first through Ropley station.
November is a special month here at locoyard, when Movember is celebrated! As before; at locoyard we will be holding competition to spread awareness of men’s health issues. There will be a different Movember competition this year – there will be a small prize for a randomly selected entry and in return for this, all…
Further details of this coming Sunday’s “Anything Goes” Gala at the Gwili Railway are now available. Following on from the announcement last week of the loco allocations for this UK Heritage Hub supported gala (find them here; https://locoyard.com/2013/09/12/gwili-gala-loco-allocations/ ) we are now available to confirm the freight consist, which shall be used throughout the day,…
This year’s warm and dry summer in the UK resulted in many heritage railway lines having to switch from steam to diesel power because of the fire risk. The Watercress Line was no exception and called in support from two class 37 diesel electric locomotives – D6836 and 37901 Mirrlees Pioneer. These two locomotives were…
Our model of the Week is certainly one of the favourites of the Locoyard fleet. Today we look at the history behind the prototype that Bachmann based this fabulous model on (click here for the model review) – South Eastern and Chatham Railway C class 592.
Loco Yard 