The Adventuring Autisticman and Cancer Carer – Trains for Us The heritage railway scene is forever changing, and it is great to see individuals who push full steam ahead with projects to help others enjoy the spectacle of traveling behind a vintage steam locomotive. Oliver Morgan and Joseph Halloway set up the Asperger’s Fundraisers last…
It has been some time since we’ve reviewed a new Hornby product on locoyard. This is mainly due to the production problems the firm have experienced, but also because the prototype’s have not been on the top of my personal wishlist. This, I believe, is the first of the firm’s “design clever” models that I’ve…
In the summer of 2013, Jeremy Hosking’s LNER A4 4464 Bittern was given special dispensation to run 3 railtours at 90mph to celebrate the 75th anniversary of 4468 Mallard’s 126mph speed record. This UK Heritage Hub video features two of those railtours, the first being the Ebor Streak on the 29th June (two shots at…
The appeal of owning a model of the unique BR Standard 8P class 71000 Duke of Gloucester proved too much and so we have a new addition to the Locoyard fleet. This is the DCC fitting guide (click here for the model review.)
Hello readers of the Locoyard Blog! My name is Jonathan Malton and I am a new member of the team! My passion for railways has been about since I was very young, mainly through the certain works of the Rev Awdrey. As Dave has already stated, I run a YouTube channel of locomotive and tram action…
I am very pleased to announce yet another member to the Locoyard team! Following our request for new members for locoyard bloggers, we’ve had another response! I would like to introduce you to Shirl aka Fireboxchaser, who will be contributing to the Locoyard blog. Shirl already has a wonderful website (click here), YouTube channel (click…
Please do not forget that the latest free edition of UK Heritage Hub’s fantastic e-zine full of brilliant articles from a wide variety of authors has been published! Do check it out – click here to download and read it! Please note that submissions for Issue 35 are now open, the deadline being the 24th…
Today’s special Valentines Day post features both mine and LocoYard’s flagship and most loved locomotives hauling some rather speical trains. First we have LocoYard’s 850 Lord Nelson hauling a rake of Pullman coaches on a speical Valentine’s Day Luncheon special.
I am very pleased to announce that following our request for new members for the locoyard team, that we’ve found someone! I would like to introduce you to Jonathan Malton, who will be contributing to the Locoyard blog. Jonathan has started a fantastic YouTube channel that I heartly recommend you subscribe to (click here). Today…
Originally posted on Whizzbang1698:
Chief Mechanical Engineer Frederick William Hawksworth was born 10 February 1884. He was the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway (Great Britain) (GWR). Hawksworth was born in Swindon, and he joined the GWR in 1898, aged 15, but did not become CME until he was 57, in 1941.…
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