Tonight we are looking at something rather different and another first for LocoYard in the form of a wooden train review and not just any wooden train; the Mid-Hants own Black 5 45379.Class: Stanier Black 5 (5MT) Use: Mixed Traffic Region: Midland/Scotland Era: 1934-1968 Preserved examples: 4767 (BR 44767) George Stephenson – North Yorkshire Moors Railway 4806…
https://www.change.org/p/st-modwen-save-our-historic-railways-buildings Another week, and another petition on Change.Org to save more of the historical buildings of our railway past. This time, a petition has been set up for St Modwen Developments Ltd. in Wolverton, where their are plans to build houses on the site and demolish the original buildings. While this country does need more houses, it would…
Today Queen Elizabeth II became the United Kingdom’s Longest reigning Monarch. In 2012 when locoyard’s model railway was in operation, her Diamond Jubilee was marked by a special Royal Train. The model was chosen because the prototype was built in the same year the Elizabeth II was crowned, giving an idea of how long her 23,226 days 18…
Icons of Steam have a collection of remarkable steam locomotives. Where possible the locomotives are kept in working order and where possible on the mainline. The locomotive in the collection that is in the news currently is world famous 46100 Royal Scot. Today Royal Scot was delivered to the Severn Valley Railway, where it will run a…
I set out with a little trepidation on Sunday after the previous failures out on the mainline had left me wondering how much worse it could get for mainline steam. I needn’t have worried. Brittania stormed through the whole day showing everyone just what steam on the mainline should be like for passengers and linesiders…
Tonight we have yet another picture from the Kent and East Sussex Railway in the 1990’s. For a short period of time, the light railway was home to a 3 car ‘Hastings’ Diesel-Electric Multiple Units (DEMU.) The Hastings DEMU was a class built specifically to run through from London to Hastings, a feat made difficult for…
Many of my older collection of photographs have featured on this website before, but visits to my childhood home often unveil new finds, some good, some not so! The picture featured in this blog post fits into the latter category, but is the only one I’ve found of a particular former locomotive of the Kent…
On Friday 4th September, I visited the North Norfolk Railway for its’ annual Autumn Steam Gala, and what an event. Before it had even started, on the Thursday, two locomotives had to be withdrawn for the event. Black 5 45337 had leaky tubes and SR West Country Class 34007 Wadebridge had been stuck on the…
This steam locomotive is one of the few in the UK that can honestly say it’s run past Hell on a regular basis during its career. This is no joke, although “Hell” in this case is the name of a village in Norway. No 376, aptly named Norwegian, has featured on this blog frequently over the years…
Some great shots of the Jacobite service, I really want to do this trip one day Lucy's Walk Around Britain Friday 28 August 2015 Trains from Glasgow to MallaigKnoydart Ferry Office I was up early after a comfortable night on Maggie’s sofa. Due to a technical hitch with the shower I had my first bath…
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