Today marks an important day for this website, for it marks the first time that we have been able to sing the praises for model trains in a national campaign! Today John Lewis Insurance, as part of their Your Toy Story campaign features the train set and so, in our unique way we will explore why we…
Good evening, Today was the last Dorset Coast Express service of the season, the weekly express which runs from London Victoria to Weymouth is a favorite of mine and allows me to see some great mainline steam before working on 35005 Canadian Pacific inside Eastleigh works. The last service was hauled by unrebuilt Battle of…
Please note that this article has been superseded, please click here for the updated blog post. It’s been a little while since we’ve commented on new model releases on this blog and to be honest a big reason for that is that it is becoming hard to keep track (excuse the pun) of the…
Originally posted on Somewhere, Anywhere:
The prime reason for coming to Fort William was to take the steam train trip from Fort William to Mallaig and back. Before there was a bridge, this was the link to the ferry which departs from Mallaig to the Isle of Skye. The steam train has gained a degree…
Originally posted on LET THE STARS OUT:
An enchanting experience reliving the golden era of travel, I took a ride on Dartmouth Steam Railway. You just have to try it! Celebrating 150 years this summer, the heritage steam railway stops at Kingswear, Greenway Halt (for Agatha Christie’s summer home), Churston, Goodrington and Paignton. I chose to…
Originally posted on 52 Weeks of Bill's Life:
To do this theme justice I have to tell a story – I have always wanted to take pictures of steam trains and the North Yorkshire Railway Company was close by on my recent vacation. Great so Jeff, the brother in-law, and I worked out the timetables…
Good evening, Today marks the fifty anniversary of the last ever “Atlantic Coast Express” when 34023 Blackmoor Vale left Padstow heading for London Waterloo on the 5th September 1964. One of the most famous named trains in British Railways that had for so long linked London with the holiday locations on the North Cornwall’s Atlantic Coast had ceased…
Rather remarkably, somehow I managed to skip this this beautiful locomotive when reporting about my visit to the Bluebell Line (click here to read more.) This was probably because I only saw it briefly as it pulled away with the line’s Wealden Rambler. It had been many years since I had seen this locomotive in…
Originally posted on Calling All Stations:
As you may well know, I originally got this hobby in my teens, being forced to take a break when I ran out of space and went to uni. Spin forward 10 years and I now have a large quantity of rolling stock that I inherited from the offset, some of…
Originally posted on Model Railroad Imagineerings:
Recently I had lunch with a co-worker who was born and raised in India. We talked about her home state, Indian food, and then on to tea. From tea we took a side step to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a favorite two foot railway of mine. My friend asked…
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