Bigjigs Heritage Collection Tornado Review

Good evening, Following the popularity of my previous reviews of the BigJigs heritage range, they have kindly sent me another loco to review and this time I went for one of the more famous locomotives in the range – the A1 Steam Trust’s Tornado. Class: Peppercorn A1 Pacific Use: Express Passenger Region: London and North Eastern Railway Era: 1948-1966…

December Steam

Those of you who have been following this year’s advent calendar will have seen that there have been plenty of festive shots from the Watercress Line.  As with many preserved lines, the Mid-Hants Railway is very busy at this time of year and there are plenty of special services, with Christmas dinners and Santa Specials. A lot of…

15th December 2015 – Locoyard Advent Calendar

Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture (Copyright Brian L Dominic – The Mid-Derbyshire Light railway (www.mdlr.co.uk) – 10 Lady Sybil pauses at Haddon station on Christmas Eve.) Do you want to contribute to the locoyard advent calendar? Click here to find out how you can!

Winter Steam Festival

14xx 1450 will be returning to the South Devon Railway for the line’s 2016 Winter steam Festival, marking the early days of preservation in 1966 when the 0-4-2T arrived on the former Dart Valley Railway.  The festival will take place over 13-22 February 2016 and is likely yo feature auto trains for 1450 and another…

Christmas Photographs Please!

We hope you have been enjoying this year’s Advent Calendar!  We are open for contributions to the Advent Calendar, so if you have a winter themed image from a railway (real or model,) please send it in!  Full credit to the contributor will be given and we’ll gladly promote your own website and/or YouTube channel in exchange. …