Locoyard’s Thomas the Tank engine spends every November on the layout to celebrate Movember. This year he decided to arrive early and on the morning of Halloween, Thomas was being prepared for a day’s work. Thomas likes visiting locoyard, as it’s always full of steam locomotives and this year is no exception. He got chatting…
We start Halloween with an early blog post today, looking at how we at locoyard celebrated Halloween in 2012…
Following a previous blog post on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway’s O2 class W24 Calbourne, we have a brief look at other locomotives that can be found at Havenstreet. Firstly we have the unique E1 class that was reported on before (click here for more), however since then it has been re-named Yarmouth.
As this blog post went to press, this website has recorded 200,317 views in it’s 22 month lifetime!
Regular contributor Nick Littlewood has kindly sent some fascinating pictures of Sheffield Victoria Station. Sheffield Victoria was a main station on the former Great Central Railway. Opened 15 September 1851, the station took on great importance by the unique Woodhead Line that linked Sheffield, Penistone and Manchester. However, Beeching’s second report in 1965 recommended consolidation…
This looks like it will be an excellent event. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend, but hopefully this reblog will help find some people who can! Southern Railway, Fisherton Sarum, Canute Road Quay & Westhill Road I make no apologies for repeating myself a little but as I am long time member, and…
Given terrible storms are expected to hit southern England very soon, I thought it very fitting to publish a few pictures of 60163 Tornado battling through the pouring rain at this Weekend’s Watercress Line’s Autumn steam gala (seen alongside the failed rebuilt West Country Pacific 34046 Braunton in the picture above). I took over 800…
Today saw the re-release of E-G Medias Steam Locos in Profile episode featuring the Bulleid Pacifics. This episode of the hit YouTube series looks at Oliver Bulleid’s brilliant Merchant Navy, West Country & Battle Of Britain pacifics. The series has often been described as Top Gear for trains and has been put together using various…
On the lookout for decent, cheap 00 scale models, I came across a Hornby GNR J13. At first glance it was obvious that it was streets ahead of the J83 so decided to give it a go, so here is it’s review!
What an amazing story and very fitting given that today is the start of part 2 of the Great Gathering!
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