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!
Every now and then, it’s worth checking out http://www.locoyard.com and looking through the webpages, as there is plenty of content. Over 3000 images, 40 web pages and over 580 blog posts with a variety of topics on heritage and model railways can be found. The blog started life as a model railway diary and to…
Bancroft Mill, Barnoldswick Heritage Days English Heritage will be celebrated this weekend at Bancroft Mill, Barnoldswick with free entry to steaming events on both Saturday and Sunday. On both days the museum will open at 11.00am and the mill engine will run from 1.00 to 4.30pm. The engine and its boiler will be centre pieces of the event with the 1901 Bradley engine…
Excellent blog post – I hope you don’t mind the reblog! General Eisenhower’s British train certainly is in the UK and we British are very grateful to see it alongside all it’s surviving classmates, including another visiting from Canada. I had the pleasure of seeing it earlier in the year at the National Railway Museum,…
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway number 672 Fenchurch is 141 years old today! As well as celebrating it’s 141st Birthday today, last week the locomotive visited Littlehaven as part of the station’s 150th Birthday, so it’s been a back to back party-time for Fenchurch!
Pecorama is a large miniature and model railway attraction situated on the southern “Jurassic Coast” of east Devon. As well as having a large model railway exhibition; there is also a large miniature railway, model shop, gardens and restaurant, plus it is adjacent to Peco’s factory. Three blog Posts have been published so far on…
As is the tradition of this series of blog posts, we look at the history of the prototype behind a model from the locoyard collection.
After seeing the video below on YouTube from a link on Model Rail’s Editor Ben Jones’ twitter feed, I was so wowed that I simply had to share it here! This is an amazing model! I would love to have this in the collection as although it’s not the correct scale for locoyard; being Ho…
This is a special video made for UK Heritage Hub looking back at an incredible summer of steam! Enjoy!
Tonight’s blog post is both a reminder to download and checkout UK Heritage Hub’s latest ezine (click here to download and read it) and also a note that submissions for Issue 27 are still open – the deadline for which is 9th September. If there is a topic or article that you would like to…
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