2013 has been a rather mixed year for railway preservation, with several massive highs in contrast to what has been a very difficult year for many railways across the country. 2013 has by no means been disappointing; although the weather has let us down a fair few times! The arctic spring was welcomed by some…
Over the years that LocoYard.com has been doing his model railway reviews he has featured most of the big express locomotives from the “Big Four” railway companies. The Southern Railway had its Merchant Navy’s, the LNER had its A4, the LMS had the Streamlined Coronation class and finally the Great Western had its Castle class. These beautiful machines from…
The volume and breadth of articles published here and significantly in UK Heritage Hub’s ezine has been remarkable. Today we summarise the past year’s UKHH blog posts and what a selection they are too……. Locoyard has become the blog of choice from UK Heritage Hub. In the coming year you can expect this partnership to…
Issue 32 of UK Heritage Hub’s brilliant ezine has been published (click here to download and read it). Please note that submissions for Issue 33 are now open, the deadline for submissions being 13th January. If there is a topic or article that you would like to write or pictures of UK Heritage published, why…
The last model of the week blog post for 2013 is a (renumbered) Bachmann BR Standard class 9F class. The model has previously been reviewed (click here for more) and being such a solid performer is a regular runner here at Locoyard. Today we look at the history of this powerful prototype.
Whilst reading “The Railwayman’s Pocket-Book” which had the fabulous castle class locomotive 7007 “Great Western” on the cover I found a great diagram on the Great Western Railway head lamp codes thought I would do a post on them. The head lamps arrangement was a method of classifying trains so they could easily by identified…
As promised yesterday evening, here are some more pictures taken on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, showing a decorated terrier tank engine. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the readers and contributors of this blog during the past year and wish you all a very merry Christmas.
The season of Santa Special’s is always special on heritage railways. As a result of lots of hard work by volunteers, the Christmas spirit is fantastic, with Santa, presents, mince pies, Christmas music and decorations aplenty! This is as true on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway as it is on any other, as can…
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture!
As we approach Christmas Day, I think it’s highly appropriate to have a blog post published on a Star! Simon of Brookes Castle has very kindly written this blog post detailing the history of the Broad Gauge Star class, which has been illustrated with pictures taken at the museum by Dave. This locomotive is a…
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