Originally posted on Grasslands Models:
So where were we? Oh yes, I remember… I was converting a Drewry Diesel Tram while filming the results (using time lapse recording). Here are the links to days 1 and 2. Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iv_BVSoy1M Day 3 consisted of replacing the rather small buffers on the Bachmann Class…
It has been a long time coming, but my videos for my American Adventure that I last wrote about way back in September have finally been edited and uploaded to my YouTube account. I apologise for the long delay, but here is my first railway that I visited, the Georgetown Loop, in Colorado. The Georgetown…
Given the recent blog posts on LNER A4 class locomotives, I thought there was room for another! A link to the above video was recently shared by Rowan Jackson on the UKHH’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukheritagehub/.) It really captures the essence of the job that the A4 class and its crews did whilst in service, with…
As I stated when I first wrote for this blog, I have a model railway, which I have been working on since I was very young. It has had many iterations, but this one, the third incarnation is the longest that I have had the model railway. As you can see in the images below,…
Unlike Stanier’s competing express passenger locomotive class; the LMS Coronation class, the streamlining of Sir Nigel Gresley’s LNER A4 class was more than skin deep. Therefore when wartime and the following nationalisation of the country’s railways brought with them a more austere and pragmatic management approach, the streamlining of the A4’s remained, being intrinsic to…
Tonight we have a freshly edited version of retired Engine Driver John Anthony’s most popular piece on driving LNER A4 class pacific 4468 Mallard. Indeed it is so popular that John had a letter published in the Daily Mail (26/3/14) with his “mug shot” in it. It won letter of the week too!
70000 Britannia was one of two visitors at the Watercress Line’s Spring Steam gala 2015. The locomotive has featured on this blog several times in the past as I’ve had the pleasure of seeing it in action on many occasions. The odd thing for me is that despite seeing it many times, I am yet…
Originally posted in issue 49 of UK Heritage Hub, this is a comprehensive review of 2014 – enjoy!
Last Saturday, on the 14th February, I visited the North Norfolk Railway, for the Wissington & Irene Special. Both the locomotive (Wissington) and the carriage (Irene) have a varied history, and both of them, in the past five years, have been returned to service. Wissington worked at the Wissington Sugar Factory before being bought for…
Tonight we have another story from retired Engine Driver John Anthony that will put a smile on your face!
Loco Yard 